One of my main goals in this survey course of American painting, sculpture and architecture is to train you to see. I want you to increase your stock of visual experiences by using the slide library at least five hours a week. Library, which is maintained by our Art History Department, is located in the basement of the Art Center and is open seven days a week.
By the end of this course, I expect you to be able to identify two thousand slides of various American works of art. Slide identification questions will appear on the weekly exams and the final.
During each of the ten weeks of this course, a set of two hundred slides during my lectures. You should plan on looking at each set twice in the slide library: once before the week s lectures and once after. This pattern of three exposures will improve your visual memory.
Although becoming familiar with two thousand slides may sound difficult, experience has shown me that this is the best way to increase the visual ability of students, such as yourselves, who have never taken any art course before.