Ph.D

Paper Code: 
VAH 144 (S) : ADVANCED PAPER- SCULPTURE- 20TH CENTURY INDIAN AND WESTERN SCULPTURE
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Unit I: 
Indian Modern Sculptors

Deviprasad Roy Choudhary, Binayak Pandurang  Karmakar, Ram Kinker Baij, Dhanraj Bhagat, Somnath Hore, Meera Mukharjee, Mrinalini Mukharjee, Nand Gopal

 

Unit II: 
Indian Modern Sculptors

: Amarnath Sehgal, Pradosh Das Gupta, P. Puchkanwala,   Shankhon Choudhary,Satish Gujral, Raghav Kaneria, P.V. Jankiram, Himmat Shah,  Krishna Reddy, Rajendra Tikku, Balbir Singh Katt, Subodh Gupta, Latika Katt.

 

Unit III: 
Western Modern Sculptors

Constantine Brancusi, Henry Moore, Pablo Picasso, Barbara Hepworth, Umberto Boccioni, Raymond Duchamp, Vladimir Tatlin, Marcel Duchamp, Alberto Giacometti, Joan Miro,  Julio Gonzalez, Alexander Calder, Mathias Goertiz.

 

Unit IV: 
Western Modern Sculptors

Ronald Bladen, David Smith, Donald Judd, Claes Oldenburg, Barnett Newman, Robert Smithson, Christo Javacheff, George Segal.

 

Unit V: 
Contemporary Trends in Visual Arts

Constructions, Installation, Assemblage, Performance Art, Environmental Art, Kinetic Art, Moving Sculptures, hyperrealism, etc.

 

Essential Readings: 

. History of Art Volume II- By H.W. Janson

2. Art past art presnt- By David G. Wikins, Bernard Schultz, Kathrin M. Liduff

3. The book of art Volume VIII- Modern art– By Grolier

4. Installation art- By Michel Archer

5. Tradition and Modernity in Indian art during the twentieth century- By Neelima Vashishtha

6. Contemporary art in India- A perspective- By Pran Nath Mago

 

 

Academic Year: 
2019-2020
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