Course Objectives

• To provide training to the learners to understand the public space and how to communicate in public space by using architecture, sculpture and paintings etc. as the mass media.
  

• To impart to the learners about historiography of the plastic arts of various medium along with the shifting of the empire in India.

• To engage learners to understand the religious, and socio-cultural institutions associated with the plastic arts in pluralistic traditions of the ancient, medieval and modern India.

Learning Outcomes

• After successful completion of the course, the learners will be able to communicate in public space by using the plastic arts as the media for mass communication.

• The learners will be able to understand historiography of the Indian traditions. They will be able to appreciate the socio-cultural and religious institutions of India.

Course Syllabus

MODULE I

Communicating with the Public

Plastic Arts as Mass Media
Architecture
Sculpture
Paintings

MODULE II

Public Art and the Public Space

The Chowk/Piazza
The Wall
The Sidewalk
The Garden

Module III

The March of Empire

Power and the Semiotics of Scale
Monuments and Triumphalism
The Memorial
The Collosseum/The Red Fort/Taj Mahal/ India Gate

MODULE IV

The Language of Faith

Temples, Churches, Mosques, Stupa
Iconography
Frescoes and paintings
Khajuraho/The Sistine Chapel/Birla Mandir

References:

Baneerjee , Jitendra N. Development of Hindu Iconography, Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers, 1956.
Canon, Jon. The Secret Language of Sacred Spaces: Decoding Churches, Cathedrals, Temples, Mosques and Other Places of Worship Around the World, 2013.
Cummings Cathleen Decoding a Hindu Temple: Royalty and Religion in the Iconographic Program of the Virupaksha Temple, Pattadaka.
Didron, M. Milligston E. J. (Translator) .Christian Iconography or The History of Christian Art in the Middle Ages Part 1 , Kessinger Publishing, 2003.
Dev ,Krishna. (Author), Lall, Darshan (Photographer). Sculptural Art of Khajuraho , Antique Collectors Club Ltd, 1994.

Đukanović Zoran Public Art in Public Space. ACADEMICA - Akademical group, Edition Avangarda, Belgrade. Dixon -Andrew Graham. Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel, Skyhorse, 2009.
Moore, Albert C. Iconography of Religions: An Introduction Tajuddin ,Mohamad,Rasdi Mohamad. Rethinking the Mosque in the Modern Muslim Society.
Walker, John A. Art in the Age of Mass Media, 2001.
Merrifield, Mary P. The Art of Fresco Painting in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, NOOK Book.

Session Plan

Session 1

Introduction to Mass Communication and Public Arts

PUBLIC ART -PURPOSE AND BENEFITS

[Theory]

Session 2

Public Sphere in India

Evolution of Public Sphere in India

Colonial Governmentality and the Public Sphere in India

[Theory]

Session 3

Why Plastic Arts?

Plastic Arts as Public Arts.

Public Art

[Theory]

Session 4

Plastic Arts as Heritage

Heritage of Bhubaneswar : The Temple City

Culture and Heritage of India

[Theory]

Session 5

Communicating in Public Space

Access to Public Space

[Theory]

Session 6

Empire and Plastic Arts

Plastic Arts in medieval India

Mughal India

[History]

Session 7

Empire and Plastic Arts

Plastic Arts in modern India

Indian Art and Culture

[Theory]

Session 8

Power Point Presentation - I

Introduction to Plastic Arts

[Practical]

Session 9

Plastic Arts as Mass Media

(a) Architecture

Architecture as Mass Media

[Theory]

Session 10

Plastic Arts as Mass Media

(b) Sculpture

A History of Sculpture

[Theory]

Session 11

Plastic Arts as Mass Media

(c) Arts

Indian Arts

[Theory]

Session 12

Owner and Consumer of the Plastic Arts:Plastic Arts as Public Arts

Ownership and Consumers

[Theory]

Session 13

Defining Public Space

History of Public Space

[Theory]

Session 14

City and the Public Space

Transforming Urban India

[Theory]

Session 15

Power Point Presentation II

Public Arts and Public Space

[Practical]

Session 16

Mass Communication in Public Space

Assignment I

[Practical]

Session 17

Concept of Public and Private:  Rights, Ownership and Consumership

Defining Perceptive of Public Arts and Public Space

Debate

[Practical]

Session 18

Power Point Presentation II

Public Arts and Public Space

[Practical]

Session 19

Introduction to Indian Renaissance : The Medieval Awakening

Medieval Architecture, Sculpture and Painting

[Theory]

Session 20

Hybrid of Plastic Arts: Changing Public Arts and Public Space

New Delhi : Transculturalism

[Theory]

Session 21

Introduction to Medieval History of India

Medieval History

[Theory]

Session 22

Hindu Kingdoms of South

The Delhi Sultanate

The Mughals

Rise of Islam in South Asia

Hindu Crowns of South India

[Theory]

Session 23

Power Point Presentation

Plastic Arts in Medieval India

[Practical]

Session 24

Plastic Arts and Public Sphere during Medieval Period

[Theory]

Session 25

Culture and Communication in Medieval India

[Theory]

Indian Arts and Architecture

Session 26

Public Arts and Public Space

Introduction to Colonial History of India

Understanding the Public Sphere in India

[Theory]

Session 27

Continuity of the Plastic Arts in Colonial Period

[Theory]

Session 28

Introduction to Faith, Religion and Public Sphere in Medieval and Modern India

Religious Movements in Medieval India

[Theory]

Session 29

Semiotic Study of the Imperial and Colonial Monuments : Communication Perceptive

Taj Mahal

[Theory]

Session 30

Mass Communication by Using Plastic Arts

Assignment II

[Practical]

Case Studies I

Public Arts and Public Space : Study of Tangible Art of India

[Project]

Case Studies II

Public Arts and Public Space : Study of Intangible Art of India

[Project]