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Visual Perception and Art: A Survey Across the Cultures

Prof. Soumik Nandy Majumdar · Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan

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About

The central concern of this course is to explore the complex and dynamic relationships between our visual perception and art in the context of specific visual cultures. As far as the various forms of art-object are concerned within the context of specific visual culture, visual perception varies in the most dynamic and complex ways. This course offers a survey across the global culture to study this variety of relationships and how visual perception operates as a creative process affecting deeply the concepts and styles of art. This survey will also provide us with vital clues to understand why visual artists across the globe perceive visual phenomenon so differently from each other.

Intended audience: Candidates with any educational background with an interest in Visual Culture, Visual Arts, Cultural Anthropology and Visual Psychology.

Lectures

WEEK 1 - INTRODUCTION TO VISUAL PERCEPTION

  1. Lecture 1: Introductory Lecture YouTube
  2. Lecture 2: What is Visual Perception? YouTube
  3. Lecture 3: Visual Perception and Visual Reality YouTube
  4. Lecture 4: Visual Perception and Creativity 1 YouTube
  5. Lecture 5: Visual Perception and Creativity 2 YouTube

WEEK 2 - VISUAL PERCEPTION AND VISUAL COMMUNICATION

  1. Lecture 6: Child art YouTube
  2. Lecture 7: Pre-historic art YouTube
  3. Lecture 8: Folk art YouTube
  4. Lecture 9: Primitive art YouTube
  5. Lecture 10: Photography YouTube

WEEK 3 - VISUAL PERCEPTION AND VISUAL CULTURE

  1. Lecture 11: Popular visual culture YouTube
  2. Lecture 12: Mimetic and Non-mimetic art YouTube
  3. Lecture 13: Traditional art: India YouTube
  4. Lecture 14: Traditional art: China and Japan YouTube
  5. Lecture 15: Realistic art of the West YouTube

WEEK 4 - VISUAL PERCEPTION AND MODERN ART

  1. Lecture 16: Alternative realism YouTube
  2. Lecture 17: Breakthrough in Visual Perception YouTube
  3. Lecture 18: Abstract art 1 YouTube
  4. Lecture 19: Abstract art 2 YouTube
  5. Lecture 20: Contemporary art: Challenges of Visual Perception YouTube

Syllabus and materials

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Credits and licence

Institution
Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan
Department
Humanities and Social Sciences
Teacher
Prof. Soumik Nandy Majumdar
Level
Undergraduate
Language
English
Subjects
Society and politics
Source
NPTEL
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA, as NPTEL states it. Non-commercial use only. NPTEL's terms
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