Trans-context Senior Seminar on Visual Culture

With the “visual reorientation” in the international academic research field over the past three decades, visual sense has gradually substituted language to become the thinking sample of all humanistic studies, while art is on the way to an intellectual field that can most inspire creative, critical thinking. On the basis of the profound traditional sediments and CAA’s international academic edge, the School of International Education plans to offer a trans-context senior seminar on “Chinese visual culture” from September 2009, aiming at integrating multiple cultural resources, breaking through the existing research models of sinology and China Studies overseas in the works of Chinese art history, transcending the battle between sinology and Chinese culture in the studies of traditional Chinese culture, classifying the system of Chinese culture centered on calligraphy and painting in interactive cultural context, and exploring the local construction methods of Chinese visual culture through comparative studies of multiple cultures.

Teaching and research resources
1. The Department of Chinese Painting and the Department of Calligraphy boast an excellent creation team and superb studios of Chinese painting and calligraphy.
2. Our studies of art history works have always highlighted the expansion of international visual field and the construction of academic framework as well as the cross-research of Western culture and Chinese Culture, offering fine background for international academic exchange.
3. The School of International Education has accumulated rich experience in the education of international students.

The length of the seminar is one year, while the teaching process is bilingual (Chinese and English). We offer lectures and symposiums alternately as well as practice in poetry, calligraphy, painting and seal workshops. Students are required to attain the accomplishment and vista of Chinese culture through practice in Chinese art and culture in the visual field through practice of calligraphy and painting.

Fees:
Application fee: 500 yuan RMB
Tuition: 21000 yuan RMB/1 semester, 38000yuan RMB/1 academic year

Contact information:
Gao Xindan, Office of School of International Education, China Academy of Art
Rm.331, Building 9, 218 Nanshan Rd., Hangzhou, Zhejiang
Tel/Fax: 86-571-8716-4711
E-mail:caaic@163.com
Website: http://gjxy.caa.edu.cn