THIRD SEMESTERcoretheorySem 3
CREATIVE COMMUNICATION: ART, MEDIA, CULTURE AND IDEAS
HUM 4329
Syllabus
- 01Art and ideas within broader context of art, history and cultural studies
- 02Culture and creativity across historical 'time and space' engagements
- 03Art as reaction, reflection and revolution within socio-cultural and political timeline
- 04'Isms' from renaissance to romanticism, realism to expressionism and postmodern
- 05Concepts: defamiliarization, Indian and Western aesthetics
- 06Theories on 'beauty', 'taste', 'original' and the 'sublime'
- 07Subaltern deprived parallels: folklore, tribal and endangered art
- 08Role of art critics and curators
- 09Festivals and activism
- 10Environmental art movements
- 11Animation, advertising, installation art, art films, experimental art
References
- Berger, John, Ways of Seeing. New York: Viking Press, 2018.
- Shaw, Philip, The Sublime – The New Critical Idiom. London & New York: Routledge, 2019.
- Berger, John, About Looking. New York: Pantheon, 1980.
- Coomaraswamy K Ananda, The Transformation of Nature in Art, Harvard University Press, 1934.
- Mitter, Partha, Much Maligned Monsters: A history of European reactions to Indian Art, the university of Chicago Press, 1992.
- Appadurai, Arjun, and Mack, Arien ed. India's World: The politics of Creativity in a globalized society, Rain tree, 2012.
Credits Structure
3Lecture
0Tutorial
0Practical
3Total