Visual Narratives of India: Text and Image
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- Vidya Dehejia
- Barbara Stoler Miller Professor of Indian and South Asian Art at Columbia University;
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- Visiting Professor at the Mario Miranda Chair in Fine Art/Painting/Illustrative Cartooning, etc., Goa University
Course title: Visual Narratives of India: Text and Image
Duration: from 23rd to 26th September, 2014
Who can register: Registration is open to students and general public and is free.
Certificate will be awarded to all the participants having minimum 75% attendance
Course Instructor: Vidya Dehejia, Barbara Stoler Miller Professor of Indian and South Asian Art at Columbia University; and Visiting Professor at the Mario Miranda Chair in Fine Art/Painting/Illustrative Cartooning, etc., Goa University
Overview:
This course focuses on the rich tradition of story-telling in India, and proposes the existence of distinct modes of visual narration used by India’s artists to present stories visually, both in the medium of relief sculpture, and that of water colours on plastered walls or paper manuscripts. The course devoted to the relationship of text and image in the painted manuscript tradition of India.
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Course Co-ordinator : Parag Parobo, Assistant Professor, Department of History, GoaUniversity ([email protected])
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Date and time of session
Theme and Readings
1. Tuesday, 23 September3 p.m to 5 p.m A sub-imperial Mughal Ramayana in the Freer Gallery: ca. 1600 Readings: John Seyller, Workshop and Patron in Mughal India, 1999: pp. 65-87 & plates on pp. 89-248
2. Wednesday, 24 September3 p.m to 5 p.m The Ramayana of Jagat Singh of Mewar: mid 17th centuryReadings: Vidya Dehejia, “Narrative in Jagat Singh’s Ramayana: A preliminary study” Artibus Asiae, 1996*J.P.Losty, “Sahib Din’s Book of Battles” in Dehejia ed. The Legend of Rama: Artistic Visions, 1994 3. Thursday, 25 September3 p.m to 5 p.m The Gita Govinda: The Song of Krishna Readings: Barbara Stoler Miller, translated, The Gitagovinda of Jayadeva: Love Song of the Dark Lord, 1977
4. Friday, 26 September3 p.m to 5 p.m The Bhagavata Purana or the Legend of Vishnu: Mid 17th century manuscripts from Mewar and Malwa Readings: Andrew Topsfield, Court Painting at Udaipur, 2002 (relevant section of chapter 3)Anand Krishna, Malwa Painting, 1968