on Laura Elizia Haubert
Dates: September 14, 21, 28 and October 05, 2026
Mondays
Hour: 19h to 21h
Duration: 4 meetings
Audience: general interested parties
Investment: R$ 350,00 + fees
Online course
Live, via video conferencing platform
Recorded classes available for a limited time only
Includes certificate at the end
For Libras interpreter, request by email cursos@mam.org.br with 7 business days' notice.
Modern art extended a bold invitation not only to the general public, but also to philosophers, to embark together on an exercise of transformative reflection. Faced with formal ruptures, the reinvention of perceptual experience, and the rejection of traditional models of representation, philosophical thought found itself challenged to confront, as never before, the enigma of aesthetic experience. It is precisely in this vibrant intersection between the history of philosophy and the history of art that this course relies on to revisit fundamental texts by 20th-century thinkers.
By fostering a direct dialogue between philosophers and artists, the proposal goes beyond the simple interpretation of works or doctrines: it seeks to reveal how modern art has become fertile ground for reinventing concepts such as form, expression, body, perception, and experience, illuminating the philosophical richness of the profound transformations that redefined the visual culture of the century.
Agenda
Lesson 1 – Significant Form and the Autonomy of Modern Art
- Guiding question: What distinguishes a work of art from other objects in the world?
- Present the guiding problem
- The notion of "significant form"
- Clive Bell's interpretation of Paul Cézanne's painting
Lesson 2 – Truth and Unveiling
- Guiding question: Can art be a mode of truth distinct from theoretical knowledge?
- A critique of traditional aesthetics in Heidegger
- The artwork as an event
- Heidegger's analysis of Van Gogh's painting
Lesson 3 – Perception and the painter's gaze
- Guiding question: What does the painting reveal about our way of perceiving the world?
- Phenomenology and aesthetics
- Merleau-Ponty's interpretation of the work of Paul Cézanne
Lesson 4 – Thinking about art as a living experience
- Guiding question: How can we think about art as a living experience?
- The notion of aesthetic experience in Dewey
- The encounters between Dewey and Henri Matisse: the painter meets the philosopher.
Laura Haubert
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credits
Image: Henri Matisse, Jazz (album), published by Éditions Tériade (Paris), 1947. Collection of the Mário de Andrade Library. Photo: Ding Musa