NPTEL : NOC:Modern Indian Art From the Colonial Period to the Present (Humanities and Social Sciences)

Co-ordinators : Prof.Soumik Nandy Majumdar


Lecture 1 - Overview of Modern Indian Art

Lecture 2 - Advent of the British Colonial Rule

Lecture 3 - Company Painting - A new genre in Indian Art

Lecture 4 - Kalighat Painting - from folk art to urban milieu

Lecture 5 - Raja Ravi Varma, Amrita Sher-Gil, Jamini Roy: In search of Indian Identity

Lecture 6 - Early Modern Indian Sculpture

Lecture 7 - Nationalism, Rabindranath Tagore and Bengal School

Lecture 8 - Calcutta - the happening center of modern Indian art

Lecture 9 - Santiniketan - the alternative modernism Nandalal and Benode Behari

Lecture 10 - Santiniketan - the alternative modernism Ramkinkar and Rabindranath

Lecture 11 - 1940s - a different social reality

Lecture 12 - Calcutta Groups and Bombay Progressive Artists Group

Lecture 13 - Post Independent Sculpture

Lecture 14 - Diversities in style and content : 1950s onward (I)

Lecture 15 - Diversities in style and content : 1950s onward (II)

Lecture 16 - Abstraction in modern Indian art

Lecture 17 - Neo figuration and the narrative trends

Lecture 18 - Folk Art and Modernism

Lecture 19 - Breaking the barriers: Unconventional mediums and ideas

Lecture 20 - Experiments Innovations: Past and Future