HONOURS CERTIFICATE PROGRAMME PROPOSALAY 2021-2022

General Information of the Activity

1. Department and Hub Heras Institute

2. Title of the Activity The Art of NarrativeText and Image in Indian Painting

3. Name of the Professor taking thecourse and Email address

Vaishnavi Patil

vaishnevipaatil@gmail.com

4. Name/s of the Resource person/s Vaishnavi Patil(Harvard University)

vaishnevipaatil@gmail.com

5. Name of the Dept Coordinator andEmail address

Ms. Shilpa Chheda

shilpachhedaheras@gmail.com

6. Name of the Hub Coordinator andEmail address

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7 Number of credits for the activityand number of hours

ONE (16 Hours course)

8 Fees 1500/-

9 Eligibility Under Graduate students

10 Number of students 20

11 Duration and Time 24th November 2021 to 11th December 2021(6 pm to 8 pm)

Details of the Activity

1 Title: The Art of Narrative: Text and Image in Indian Painting

2 Learning Objectives:

This course offers an opportunity to delve into the art of painting in South Asia bystudying South Asian texts and images together. We will practice close-looking atpaintings based on textual sources while reading Buddhist, Hindu, Jain, Islamic, andsecular texts in translation. The primary goal of the course is to understand the processesof creating images and the choices made while depicting textual materials in an imageformat in pre-modern South Asia.

3 Learning Outcomes:

This kind of study of the transference of text to an image will impart the knowledge ofunderstanding the importance of narrative art in South Asian artistic traditions and thecultural spheres of artistic production. The students will also get acquainted withresearch methodology of using primary sources and secondary scholarship, which willhone their research skills in the study of Indian Art.

4 Description:

The 6 day programme is designed to impart knowledge on South Asian texts andimages.

5 Module

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The Art of NarrativeText and image in Indian painting

HERAS INSTITUTE OF INDIAN HISTORY AND

CULTURE

presents an Honours course on

Date: 24th November - 11th December 2021Timing: 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. (On Wednesday & Saturday)

20 SEATS ONLY (first come first served basis)

Instructor: Vaishnavi Patil Harvard University

Contact: Shilpa Chheda 9323980615

courses.dirs@gmail.com

Introduction: The Art of Narrative in Indian painting

Buddhist Texts: Buddhacharita Jain texts Kalpasutra

Hindu Texts: Bhagvata Purana and Devi Mahatmya

Islamic Literature: Tuti-nama and Akbar-nama

Epics: Ramayana and Mahabharata

Secular Texts: Rasamanjari, Rasikapriya and Gita Govinda

TOPICS COVERED

HERAS HONOURS COURSEHONOURS CREDITS WILL BE PROVIDED

CERTIFICATE OF PARTICIPATION WILL BE PROVIDED

Ms. Vaishnavi Patil is an alumna of St. Xavier's College,

Mumbai, currently pursuing a PhD from Harvard

University, Cambridge, US.

She has presented papers in various international

conferences including the University of Oxford China

Humanities Graduate Conference, UK (2018); Biennale

Conference, European Association of Chinese Studies,

Russia (2016); Standford Berkeley Graduate Student

Conference on Pre- Modern Chinese Humanities (2016).

She is highly interested in the artistic interaction

between South Asia and East Asia through the Buddhist

world and has undertaken some research in the same

field.

She is currently working as a fellow teacher with

Harvard University's History of Art and Architecture

department.

She is also an Arts Fellow at GSAS Student Center at the

Harvard University.