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Theme

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Topic

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Intro to Aesthetics and Korena Aesthetics

1-1

Intro to Aesthetics and Korean Aesthetics

1-2

1. Problems and Divisions of Aesthetics

1.1 Problems and Challenging Questions

1-3

1.2 Divisions of Aesthetics

1-4

2. Philosophy of the Aesthetic

2.1 Modern Discourses on Taste

1-5

2.2 Aesthetic Attitude

1-6

3. Philosophy of Art

1-7

3.1 Problems of Contemporary Philosophy of Art

1-8

3.2 Definition of Art

1-9

3.3 Ontology of Artwork

1-10

3.4 Representation

1-11

3.5 Expression

1-12

Part II: Introduction to Korean Aesthetics

1-13

Background discourse of Korean aesthetics

1-14

Korean music

1-15

Korean visual arts

1-16

Korean dance

2

Comparative Approaches to Korean Aesthetics

2-1

Introduction

2-2

Methods of Comparative Aesthetics

2-3

Rewards of Comparative aestheitcs

3

Natural Beauty peculiar to Korea: from Nature and Beauty of Neo-Kantianism

3-1

Introduction to natural beauty in Korean Aesthetics

3-2

Main 1: Natural beauty and Nature in Korean tradition

3-3

Specific opinions on what and how artworks have to do for conveying nature and its beauty in the case of the Joseon Dynasty

3-4

Natural Beauty in the 20th century

3-5

Dansaekhwa

3-6

Further Questions & Discussions

4

Korean painting

4-1

Intro

4-2

Eight Views of Xiaoxiang

4-3

sub video 1.

Landscape painting

4-4

The Nine-bend Stream of Mt. Wuyi

4-5

sub video 2.

Mt. Wuyi and the valley

4-6

True View Scenery Painting

4-7

sub video 3.

changes of meaning in landscape paintings

5

Korean Narrative Tradition

5-1

Opening

5-2

The concept of Korean literature

5-3

Sub Video1

[The concept of fiction]

5-4

The concept of fable

5-5

The re-emergence of fable as a new novel or sinsoseol in modern Korean literary history

5-6

The gap between Chinese fable tradition and Koran fable tradition and Buddhist influences on the development of the Korean fable tradition

5-7

A Court Case of Frog and Snake or Wasa ogan 蛙蛇獄案

5-8

closing

6

Korean Art and Social Change

6-1

Introduction

6-2

Art and Moral Improvement

6-3

Art in Joseon Dynasty

6-4

Changes in Art in Joseon Dynasty

6-5

Korean Art Today

6-6

Q/A

6-7

sub video

Art of North Korea

7

Korean Art and Morality

7-1

Opening and Lecture outline

7-2

Philosophical Background of Korean Artistic Practices: Confucian Moral Self-cultivation

7-3

Double Desires for Self-Enjoyment

7-4

The motive of self-forgetting in artistic practices

8

The Aesthetics of Fun: 'Sinmyŏng' (神明) in Korean Popular Culture

8-1

The Aesthetics of Play (nori) in Korean Popular Culture

8-2

Releasing Han through Nori

8-3

Eliciting Hŭng through Nori I: Humor

8-4

T’alch’um

8-5

Q&A and Discussion

8-6

Hybridity and Creativity

8-7

Reappropriation on traditional Minjung aesthetics

8-8

What Makes Korean Popular Culture Korean? K-pop as a Case

8-9

Concluding

9

Group discussions by theme

Art as tool

10

QnA interview

Role of Imperfection in Korean Aesthetics에 대한 교수님들의 생각에 대한 interview