HART0031: History of the Category 'Art' - Indicative Weekly Topics and Suggested Reading

Weekly topics include:

1. Taste and Perception
2. The Sublime
3. Art and Ideology: Marxism and Cultural History
4. The Frankfurt School: Benjamin and Adorno

Suggested Reading:

• Shiner, Larry, The Invention of Art: A Cultural History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001).
• Guichard, Charlotte, ‘Taste communities. The rise of the amateur in eighteenth-century Paris’, Eighteenth century studies, 45, No. 4 (2012), 519-547.