News For students registered for the bachelor’s degree program for the academic year 2024/2025 The Acting Dean of the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences in Rabat informs all students registered for the bachelor's degree program at the faculty for the academic year 2024/2025 that study in the Autumn session will begin on Monday, September 9, 2024.Name of the Course: INDIAN ART AND CULTURE
Course Objectives: The course provides an overview of Indian art and culture through a historical lens. Students will be introduced to the Indian idea of art and aesthetics, evolution of Indian architecture, sculpture and painting.
Unit 1: The Art of the Indus Civilization
Unit 2: Evolution of Buddhist Architecture
Unit 3: Empire and Art under the Mauryas
Unit 4: Indian art and Aesthetics
Unit 5: Indian sculptural traditions
Unit 6: Evolution of Temple Architecture
Unit 7: Indian Painting
Unit 8: Art and Architecture under the Delhi Sultanate
Unit 9: Art and Architecture under the Mughal Empire
Unit 10: Indian Art in the Colonial Period and beyond
Suggested Readings:
Vidya Dehajia: Indian Art
Partha Mitter: Indian Art
S.K. Saraswati: A Survey of Indian Sculpture
Percy Brown: Indian Architecture Volumes 1 &2
Percy Brown: Indian Painting
Stella Kramrisch: Indian Temple Architecture Volumes 1 &2
Internet resources: www.ignca.nic.in
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