LECTURE 1.

1 Art as a Humanistic Discipline

FRAMEWORKS AND PERSPECTIVES

FIELDS OF LEARNING

Sciences HUMANITIES

Language History ART Philosophy

Art Creation Artist Practice

ART APPRECIATION Spectator Theory

What makes Science different from Art?

THE SCIENCES Deals with natural, physical phenomena

THE HUMANITIES Deals with human phenomena

PARADIGM FOR LEARNING IN THE SCIENCES

PARADIGM FOR LEARNING IN THE HUMANITIES

THINKERS WHOSE THOUGHTS WERE THE BASIS OF METHOD IN THE

HUMANITIES

SOCRATES 469-399 с. "Know thyself."

WISDOM

"Withdraw into yourself truth dwells in the inner man." AUGUSTINE, 354-430 с.

THE SCIENCES THE HUMANITIES

KNOWLEDGE WISDOM

The scientist becomes a LEARNED ΜΑΝ. The humanist becomes a WISE person.

THALES OF MILETUS (620-546 ca.)

A scientist tends to know everything about the world that he forgets to know anything about himself.

CONFUCIUS (555-479 BC)

至聖

"The Great Sage" Wise Man

Who am I?
“I am a human being."

I am unique, strengths, weaknesses, vulnerabilities, capabilities, and many other

LECTURE 1.2
The Humanities in Western Civilization

"HUMANITIES"
LATIN humanitas ENGLISH "humanity"

divinitas Gods in the state of perfection in heaven

humanitas People in the state of culture in civilized society

barbaritas Savages in the state of nature for survival

THE PLACE OF HUMANITIES IN THE HISTORY OF WESTERN
CIVILIZATION

ANCIENT 800 ca. COSMOCENTRIC VIEW

PROTAGORAS: Man is the measure of all things.

GEOCENTRISM: Man is at the center of the universe.

MEDIEVAL 300 ca. THEOCENTRIC VIEW

SCHOLASTICISM: Man is created in the image of God Man is at the

center of creation.

RENAISSANCE 1400 ca. ANTHROPOCENTRIC VIEW

HUMANISM: Nothing is more wonderful than man.

MODERN 1600 SCIENTIFIC-TECHNOCENTRIC VIEW

Man is a part of nature.

POSTMODERN 1960 ECLECTIC VIEW

Man is a piece of everything.
MEDIEVAL IMAGE OF THEOCENTRIC MAN Man is created by God.

Escorial Beatus, Illuminated Manuscript, 10th Century

RENAISSANCE IMAGE OF MAN:

ANTROPOCENTRIC MAN: Measure of all things

Leonardo da Vinci Vitruvian Man, bet. 1487-1490

HELIOCENTRIC THEORY: Removed man from the center of the universe and
suggested the view man was special in the universe.

"The Earth revolves around the Sun."

Copernicus, On the Revolution of Celestial Bodies, 1542