The Artist and Society

At the end of the course, students should be able to: 1. The theoretical underpinning governing art and the artist in society; 2. Operate from informed background of sociological theories of art and society; 3. Anticipate coping with work experience engaging society in their vocation; and 4. Understand the theoretical suppositions that relate art and design to society.

This course examines such topics as the conceptual framing of art and the artist through the ages how the artist impinges on the society and the ethos of his milieu. The place of the artistic experience, grounds or errors in projecting the creative mystique upon reality in the conception of the artistic personality, investigating the place of artistic inspiration considering the common saying that the artist gives back to the society what the society created. It accommodates the platonic argument and psycho sensory rationalizations of Sigmund Freud Karl Jung and the place of the artistic metaphor and its origin in the socialization of Jacques Lacan and Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of art within the frames of habitus, cultural and symbolic capital.