Week 1: Changing definition of Folk and Minor Art
Timeline and Regions: General Mapping
Traditional Roots: Elements and Principles
Timelessness : Primitive Connection
Evolution in Purpose: Ritualistic to Propagative
Contemporary Practice
Week 2: Classification and Connections: Traditional Roots
Available literary recourses
Mythical Associations
Idea of Nationalism in the Context of Folk art
Idea of Modernism In the context of Folk Art
Relevance of the Art Practice
Week 3: Contextualization and Decontextualization
Concept of Communication for Social Purpose
Aesthetic Perspective
Secularity and Religious Plurality
Ethnographic perspective on the study of Folk Art and Culture
About the Exponents who brought the culture under the limelight
Week 4: Contextualization and Decontextualization
School of Art in Madhubani Painting
Art as a Feminine Preserve vs the Male painters of Madhubani
Yamapata, Pytkar and other art practice of Jharkhand Yamapata by the Jadopatias
Sohari Painters and their Art
Patachitra of Bengal and Odisha
Week 5: Continuum of the Practice: Ancient Centres and Contemporary
Case study 1 Stylistic Variety in Bengal
Case study 2 Stylistic Variety in Odisha
Case study 3 Stylistic Variety in Andhra Pradesh
Exponents and their Contributions
Hypothesis on Possible Stylistic influences
Week 6: Characteristics of Contemporary Collection
Thematic Analysis
Iconic Analysis
Semiotic Analysis
Effect of narratives: Qualitative Evaluation
Individual Expression in Contemporary Art
Week 7: Cultural Condition: Colonial and Post colonial Ideologies
Social Formation during Preindependence
New Aesthetics: early Prints and Battala Prints
Artist Block Makers and Hybrid Aesthetics of Urban Folk Art
Kalighat Painting to Haripura Posters: A synergy
Jamini Roy: Accommodating Vernacular Idiom in Academic Practice
Week 8: Coexistence and Collaborations with Mainstream Art
Strategies for Future and Sustainability: Vision and Revision
Alternative Context: place of folk art in Contemporary Lifestyle
Ancient literary sources and canonization: Scholarly Comments
Need of Paradigm Shift
Conclusion
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