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Drawing
Painting
Sculpture
Artistic Anatomy
Printmaking
Composition and Design,
History of Technique
VISUAL CULTURE
Diploma Project
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COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
Visual Culture
Diagnostic Examination
All entering students sit for a diagnostic examination in art history graded on a
pass/fail basis and designed to test if students meet the level of competence the
Academy believes should have been obtained through undergraduate study. The
format of the exam is slide identification. Students will be required to identify
major works of Western art and place works within historical periods. Students not
passing the exam will be given a suggested weekly reading schedule and must take
the exam again at the end of the semester.
Art and Culture Seminar I and II
The seminars focus on analysis and interpretation of visual culture. The approach
is multi-disciplinary and revolves around weekly readings on a variety of issues
and periods. Emphasizing the underpinning of personal reaction to visual works
with established scholarly practices, the seminars provide a forum for discussion
of the ideas broached by the Academy’s weekly evening lectures, featuring prominent
artists, critics, art historians, curators and others.
H201
Seminar I concentrates on various aspects of the study of art history, focusing particular
attention on the representation of the human form across time and place.
Readings and discussions explore topics in the history, methods and theory of art
historical research. The seminar culminates in a research paper, presented at the
seminar, on a subject determined in consultation with the instructor.
3 credits
H301
Seminar II addresses critical theory, modernist paradigms and the contemporary
environment. A research paper that will be developed and graded as a component
of the Diploma Project II course is required. The paper should make a convincing
argument for the Diploma Project by citing relevant sources in philosophy, culture
and artworks, and stand as a verbal study of and argument for the Diploma Project.
Individual reasoning, analysis and perceptions should inform this endeavor as they
do the visual work.
3 credits
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