Fall 2006 Professor Pika Ghosh (email: pghosh@email.unc.edu)
MWF 1-1.50
Teaching Assistants: Kate Arpen (k8arpen@email.unc.edu), Alex Deyneka (adeyneka@yahoo.com)
Hanes Art Center 121

This course examines the production and uses of monuments, manuscripts, gardens, and cities from the Indus Civilization to the twentieth century in South Asia. Through these forms, we will explore the cultures that developed in the countries of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka, and their interaction with each other through the transmission of artifacts, ideas and belief systems.

TEXTBOOKS
Dehejia, Vidya. Indian Art. Phaidon, 1999.
  Asher, Frederick ed. Art of India. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2002.
  Davis, Richard. Lives of Indian Images. Princeton University Press, 1996.

REFERENCE
Kulke, Hermann and Dietmar Rothermund. A History of India. London and New York: Routledge, 1996.
  Thapar, Romila. A History of India. Part 1. London: Penguin Books, 1966.

RESERVE READINGS
Additional readings for weekly discussion are available as e-reserves from the library website. Readings must be completed in preparation for the assigned date. You must read actively. What are each author's main points and underlying assumptions? What is the author's tone? What are your responses? What are the strengths and weaknesses of the author's arguments? How can you apply this discussion to your experience of visual arts?

MUSEUM COLLECTIONS AND EXHIBITIONS
The Ackland Museum has several galleries displaying Asian art.
  The Freer and Sackler Galleries at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. are a major resource.
  The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts at Richmond has a significant collection of sculpture, painting, and decorative arts from this region.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS
Attendance is mandatory.
The final grade will be composed of the 2 midterm exams, paper, final exam, and class participation.
Students taking the course Pass/Fail must complete all assignments.

LECTURE SCHEDULE

Aug 23
Introduction
Reading: Dehejia, Introduction, Ch 1

Aug 28
Urbanism in the Indus Valley
Reading: Dehejia Ch 2 p. 25-36

Aug 30

Contd.

Sept 4
Labor Day: No class meeting

Sept 6
Introduction to Buddhism

Sept 11
The Institutionalization of Buddhism: Mauryan Period
Reading: Dehejia Ch 3 p. 36-47

Sept 13
Buddhist Architecture and Popular Patronage: Sanchi Stupa
Reading: Dehejia Ch 3

Sept 18

Contd.

Sept 20
Development of a Buddhist Figural Tradition: Kushan Period
Reading: Dehejia Ch 4 p. 79-96

Sept 25
Cave Shelters and Places of Prayer
Reading: Dehejia, Ch 5 p. 103-124

Sept 27
Review

Oct 2
Hour Exam

Oct 4
Icons and Temples: Gupta Period
Reading: Dehejia Ch 4 p. 96-100; Ch 5 p. 124-134

Oct 9
Seeing the Divine Image
Reading: Dehejia Ch 6
Film: Puja

Oct 11
Kings, Cults and Regional Variation in North Indian Temple Architecture
Reading: Dehejia Ch 7

Oct 16

Contd.

Oct 18
Fall Break: No Class

Oct 23
Regional Variation in South Indian Temple Architecture: Mamallapuram
Reading: Dehejia Ch 8, 9

Oct 25

Ackland Art Museum

Oct 30
South Indian Architecture Contd. Ch 9

Nov 1

Ackland Art Museum

Nov 6
Review

Nov 8
Midterm Exam

Nov  13
Regional Adaptation of Islam in India: The Delhi Sultanate
Reading: Dehejia Ch 11

Nov 15
Contd.

Nov 20
Empire and Expression: Mughal Tombs, Palaces and Gardens
Reading: Dehejia Ch 13

Nov 22
Thanksgiving Break

Nov 27
Contd.

Nov 29
Contd.

Dec 4
Colonialism and Culture
Reading: Asher p. 109-120

Dec 6
Review

RECITATION SECTIONS

Aug 25
No meeting

Sept 1
Introductions

Sept 8

Discussion

Sept 15

Ainslee Embree, “Ashokan Edicts,” Sources of Indian Tradition. (e-reserve)

Sept 22
Ackland Art Museum: Visual Analysis of Early Buddhist Sculpture
Reading: Asher, 34-45; Davis, Introduction.

Sept 29
Review for Midterm

Oct 6
Embodiment of Deities
Reading: Davis, Ch. 1

Oct 13
Visit to the Ackland: Temple Sculpture
Reading: Davis, Ch 7; Asher, 200-220

Oct 20
No class: Fall Break

Oct 27
Dehejia, “Reading Love Imagery on the Indian Temple” (e-reserve)

Reading: Kaimal, “Playful Ambiguity and Political Authority in the Large Relief at Mamallapuram” (e-reserve)

Nov 3
Review
Visual Analysis Paper due to your TA: Only submit in hard copy

Nov 10
Ackland Art Museum: Islamic Art
Reading: Asher, p. 76-101

Nov 17
Reading: Michael Brand, “Orthodoxy, Innovation, and Revival” (e-reserve)

Nov 24
Thanksgiving Break

Dec 1
Reading: Davis, Ch 5.

Dec 9, 12pm Final Examination, Hanes Art Center 121