Art and Agency in India - AINDV5026

• Anglický název: Art and Agency in India
• Zajišťuje: Ústav asijských studií (21-UAS)
• Fakulta: Filozofická fakulta
• Platnost: od 2018
• Semestr: zimní
• Body: 0
• E-Kredity: 6
• Způsob provedení zkoušky: zimní s.:
• Rozsah, examinace: zimní s.:2/0, Zk [HT]
• Počet míst: neurčen / neurčen (neurčen)
• Minimální obsazenost: neomezen
• 4EU+: ne
• Virtuální mobilita / počet míst pro virtuální mobilitu: ne
• Stav předmětu: nevyučován
• Jazyk výuky: angličtina
• Způsob výuky: prezenční
• Garant: Mgr. Martin Hříbek, Ph.D.
• Třída: Exchange - 03.6 History of Art; Exchange - 08.9 Others-Humanities; Exchange - 14.2 Sociology; Exchange - 14.7 Anthropology

Anotace

A one-semester course "Art and Agency in India" will guide participants to explore diverse ways images are produced, enacted and seen in Indian cultural context. Drawing on Alfred Gell's "Art and Agency: An Anthropological Theory" art-objects will not be analysed from a historical or aesthetic perspective, but rather as vehicles of social agency. What do images do and on whose behalf? What conflicts does it involve? What are the politics of representation of the actors? A wide range of material from clay Hindu idols to contemporary video installations will invite you to contemplate how those objects are embedded in networks of social fabric.

Poslední úprava: Hříbek Martin, Mgr., Ph.D. (25.09.2012)

Podmínky zakončení předmětu

The course requires active participation in the classes as well as regular preparation - compulsory reading before each class.

The six-credit exam will be based on an essay (5-7 pages; 9000-12600 characters, spaces included). The essay will be theoretically anchored in the Art and Agency theory and it will analyse the social context of a chosen art object(s) from an agency point of view. Consultations toward the selection of the subject of your essay will start in the second half of the semester. 

Poslední úprava: Hříbek Martin, Mgr., Ph.D. (07.10.2012)

Literatura

Základní:

• BRUCKNER, H., SCHOEMBUCHER, E. 2003. Performances. In: Das, V, (ed.) The Oxford India Companion of Sociology and Social Anthropology. Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 598-624.

• ECK, D. Darśan: Seeing the Divine Image in India. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995.

• GELL, A. 1998. Art and Agency: An Anthropological Theory. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

• PINNEY, C. 1999. Indian magical realism. In Bhadra, Prakash and Tharu eds. Subaltern Studies X. Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 201-233.

• PINNEY, C. 2003. The Image in Indian Culture. In: Das, V, (ed.) The Oxford India Companion of Sociology and Social Anthropology. Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 625-653.

• SEN, G. 2002. Feminine Fables. Imaging the Indian Woman in Painting, Photography and Cinema, Ahmedabad: Mapin.

Doporučená:

• BOWDEN, R. A Critique of Alfred Gell on Art and Agency. Oceania, Jun 2004.

• GELL, A. The Technology of Enchantment and the Enchantment of Technology. In Coote, Jeremy a Anthony Shelton (Eds). Anthropology and Aesthetics. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1992.

• LAYTON, R. Art and Agency: A Reassessment. 2003. The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 9, Number 3.

• PINNEY, C. and N. T.. 2001. Beyond Aesthetic: Art and the Technologies of Enchantment. Oxford: Berg.

• PINNEY, C. 2004. Photos of the Gods. The Printed Image and Political Struggle in India, London: Oxford University Press.

• A comics by Kati Rickenbach from the 2009 Indo-Swiss comics anthology When Kulbhushan met Stöckli by Harper Collins, New Delhi, pp. 59-83

• Installation works by Nalini Malani on youtube.

Poslední úprava: Barcuchová Sára, Mgr. (20.11.2023)

Sylabus

Compulsory reading for the second week of the semester:

 

 

1/ The kick-off reading:

A comics by Kati Rickenbach from the 2009 Indo-Swiss comics anthology When Kulbhushan met Stöckli by Harper Collins, New Delhi, pp. 59-83 (file Kati Rickenbach).

 

2/ The heavy stuff:

Gell, Alfred. 1998. Art and Agency: An Anthropological Theory. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Chapters 1-2, pp. 1-27 (file: art and agency1).

 

Compulsory reading for the fourth week of the semester:

 

Gell, Alfred. 1998. Art and Agency: An Anthropological Theory. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Chapter 3, pp. 28-50.

 

 

Compulsory reading for the fifth week of the semester:

 Chris Pinney: Image in Indian Culture

 

Compulsory reading for the seventh week of the semester:

Geeta Kapur: Ravi Varma
 

 

Compulsory reading for the eighth week of the semester:

Bruckner: Performances

Compulsory reading for the ninth week of the semester:

Brosius: Hindutva intervisuality

Compulsory reading for the tenth week of the semester:


Patricia Uberoi 'Unity in diversity?' Dilemmas of nationhood in Indian calendar Art

Compulsory reading for the eleventh week of the semester:

Sandria B. Freitag: The Realm of the Visual

 Compulsory reading for the twelfth week of the semester:

Geeta Kapur: Body as Gesture

Note that you need to enrol in the course before you can download all the files from this page.

 

If you have any questions please feel free to contact me at   [e-mail]

 

Poslední úprava: Hříbek Martin, Mgr., Ph.D. (14.12.2012)