Folk, Popular and Functional Arts (Theory)

Paper Code: 
VHA 322
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
14.00
Unit I: 

Folk art Paintings: Phad Paintings, Madhubani Paintings, Pithora Paintings, Nirmal Paintings, Warli Paintings, Pichwai Paintings, Folk murals/wall paintings, Murals (Ala- Gila), Minakari, Ganjifa, Kalamkari, Kalighat pata,  Pata painting — Bengal scrolls, Santal Patas, Jadu patas and pata traditions in rest of India.

10.00
Unit II: 

Folk dolls, masks and toys.

14.00
Unit III: 

Pottery: as cultural index and its varieties, Terracotta: ageless types, timed variations, and votive terracotta, Terracotta of Mulela, Blue pottery of Jaipur, Dhokra, its technique, style and utility

12.00
Unit IV: 

Traditional tie and die textiles of India — bandhni, patola, mashru, ikat, Leheriya, Kantha, Chamba rumal

10.00
Unit V: 

Floor Decoration: Mandhna, Alpana, Rangoli

References: 

Books:

 

  1. Stephen P. Huyler, Gifts of Earth: Terracotta and Clay Sculpture of India.
  2. Haku Shah, Votive Terracottas of Gujarat.
  3. Gurusaday Dutt, Folk Arts and Crafts of Bengal: the Collected Papers.
  4. J. Swaminathan, The Perceiving Fingers.
  5. Pupul Jayakar, The Earthen Drum.
  6. Rudolf von Leyden, Ganjifa.
  7. Nora Fisher (Ed.), Mud, Mirror and Thread.
  8. Jyotindra Jain and Arti Agarwala, National Handicraft and Handlooms Museum.
  9. Yashodra Dalmia, The Painted World of the Warlis.
  10. Yves Vequand, The Art of Mithila.
  11. Victoria Murphy and Rosemary Grill, Tie-died Textiles of India.
  12. Niaz zaman, The Art of Kantha Embroidery.
  13. Robert Skelton, Rajasthani Temble Hangings of Krishna Cult.
  14. Asit Paul (Ed.), Woodcut Prints of Nineteenth Century Calcutta.
Academic Year: 
2017-2018
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