| This seminar focuses on art forms seldom considered in previous treatments of South Asian art those regarded as part of popular and mass culture. We will treat as an integral part of the subcontinent's cultural production, visual forms ranging from murals and domestic decoration to photography to calendar art/posters, and will trace emerging forms and themes over the past three centuries. We will try to figure out, on the basis of the visual evidence itself, what can be said about the visual culture of South Asia, both historically and contemporaraneously. |
