For Students: Past Courses

In this course, the specific mid-20th C movement called Conceptual Art was explored, as was its progenitors and its progeny. Students studied the founding manifestos, the canonical works and their critical appraisals, as well as developed tightly structured studio practica to embody the former research.

This course looked at moments of both optimism and skepticism about the ability of the brush, the pencil, and the camera to capture what the eye could see and what it could not.

This course examined contemporary attempts to revitalize and reaffirm art's relation to beauty, aesthetic pleasure, and seduction.

This course explored the relationship between visual art, the supernatural, & the psychological during three distinct cultural moments: Spiritualism in Engliand in the 1850's & 60's, Symbolism and the occult in France in the 1890's, and Surrealism in France in the 1920's & 30's.