NPTEL : NOC:Folk and Minor Art in India (Humanities and Social Sciences)

Co-ordinators : Dr. Shatarupa Thakurta Roy


Lecture 1 - Changing Definition of Folk and Minor Art

Lecture 2 - Timelines and Regions: General Mapping

Lecture 3 - Traditional Roots: Elements and Principles

Lecture 4 - Timelessness: Primitive Connection

Lecture 5 - Evolution in Purpose: Ritualistic to Propagative

Lecture 6 - Contemporary Practice

Lecture 7 - Classification and Connections: Traditional Roots

Lecture 8 - Early Literary Resources

Lecture 9 - Mythical Associations

Lecture 10 - Idea of Nationalism and Modernism in the Context of Folk Art-I and II

Lecture 11 - Relevance of the Art Practice

Lecture 12 - Contextualization and Decontextualization

Lecture 13 - Concept of Communication for Social Purpose

Lecture 14 - Aesthetic Perspective

Lecture 15 - Secularity and Religious Plurality

Lecture 16 - Ethnographic perspective on the study of Folk Art and Culture

Lecture 17 - About the Exponents who brought the culture under the Limelight

Lecture 18 - Commonality and Congruity in the Diverse Content of Art

Lecture 19 - School of Art in Madhubani Painting

Lecture 20 - Art as a Feminine Preserve vs the Male painters of Madhubani

Lecture 21 - Yamapata, Pytkar and other art practice of Jharkhand: Yamapata by the Jadopatias, Sohari Painters and their Art

Lecture 22 - Patachitra of Bengal

Lecture 23 - Patachitra of Odisha

Lecture 24 - Continuum of the Practice: Ancient Centres, Contemporary Scenario, Method and Material - 1

Lecture 25 - Continuum of the Practice: Ancient Centres, Contemporary Scenario, Method and Material - 2

Lecture 26 - Continuum of the Practice: Ancient Centres, Contemporary Scenario, Method and Material - 3

Lecture 27 - Case study-1 : Gond Art

Lecture 28 - Case study-2 : Bengal Patachitra

Lecture 29 - Case study-3 : Madhubani Paintings

Lecture 30 - Characteristics of Contemporary Collection - Semiotic Analysis

Lecture 31 - Characteristics of Contemporary Collection - Thematic and Iconic Analysis

Lecture 32 - Characteristics of Contemporary Collection of Indian Folk and Minor Art

Lecture 33 - Thematic Change in Contemporary Collection of Indian Folk and Minor Art

Lecture 34 - Individual Expression in Contemporary Collection of Indian Folk and Minor Art

Lecture 35 - Cultural Condition: Colonial and Postcolonial Bengal - Part I

Lecture 36 - Cultural Condition: Colonial and Postcolonial Bengal - Part II

Lecture 37 - Contextualizing Folk idiom - Part I

Lecture 38 - Contextualizing Folk idiom - Part II

Lecture 39 - Contextualizing Folk idiom - Part III

Lecture 40 - Coexistence and Collaborations with Mainstream Art

Lecture 41 - Alternative Context: Place of Folk Art in Contemporary Lifestyle

Lecture 42 - Need of Paradigm Shift - I

Lecture 43 - Need of Paradigm Shift - II

Lecture 44 - Endnote