Art Theory

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Art Theory
Fall 2023
Eszter Horváth PhD.
EVERYDAY – OBJECT – APPROPRIATION – DESIGN AND ART

1. What is Art Theory? Is Art Beautiful? BEAUTY, reconsidered.
2. EVERYDAY – OBJECT – APPROPRIATION – DESIGN AND ART
Everything is/can be Art
3. TIME - DOCUMENTARY – ARCHIVE
Reproduction. Recreation. Aura.
4. ABSTRACTION vs. DANCE - SOUND
Abstraction and Corporeality in Art
5. NATURE – THE RURAL - MATERIALITY
Institutions and Objections. Institution Criticism. Land Art.
6. ARCHIVE - EXHIBITIONS - SITUATIONS
Institutions and Critical Attitude. The End of Art Theory,
and History?
7. DESTRUCTION – ABSTRACTION - UTOPIAS
Postmodern Ideas. Deconstruction. Posthumanism.
8. SPECULATION - SUBLIME – MAGIC
The Borders of Art. Transgression.
9. QUEER
The Question of the Identity. Gender-based theories.
Postcolonialism. Post- and Transhumanist Approaches.
10. PATICIPATION – SITUATION - UTOPIAS
The Social Turn. Collaboration. Participative Art.
ART THEORY 2023 - Google Dokumentumok
Thinking Through Art: Reflections on Art as Research |
Katy Macleod, Lin Holdridge (eds.) | (zlibrary-hu.se)

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RESEARCH-BASED ART / ART-BASED RESEARCH
Presentation
Creative Project
(during the semester)
(exam period)
1. Find the keywords of the texts and
2. …. and the questions and problems the texts
raise
Choose a few texts or ideas from our
textbook (3-4) work with them as
sources of inspiration and prepare an
artistic interpretation of the problems
you find in them.
3. Try to find the relations between the texts
4. Try to bring up some criticism (what is
problematic for you)
5. Find images or videos to illustrate
6. The most important: read the texts as a
source of inspiration
1. Find the keywords for each text, try
to understand them as a network of
ideas
2. Compare your chosen material,
combine its core ideas, try to find
answers to the questions it raises
3. You are free to choose the format or
genre of your work

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2. EVERYDAY – OBJECT – APPROPRIATION – DESIGN AND ART
Everything is/can be Art
Appropriation. Documents of
Contemporary Art | PDF
(scribd.com)
Design and Art | Alex Coles
(zlibrary-hu.se)
The Object (Documents of
Contemporary Art) | Antony Hudek
| download on Z-Library
The Everyday (Documents Of
Contemporary Art) | Stephen
Johnstone | download on Z-Library
(zlibrary-hu.se)