ART 104/SARS 201:  ARTS OF ASIA:  INDIA AND SOUTHEAST ASIA	
Professor Michael W. Meister	Fall 1996
Teaching Assistant: Carrie LaPorte
T-Th 10:30-12, Jaffe Bldg. 113

WATU:  	This course is WATU-affiliated.

Sections: Sections will meet every second Thursday during class 
	hours.  Participation in sections and visits to museums are essential.
Written Assignments:  There will be short written assignments 
throughout the course.  Carrie LaPorte, the WATU TA, will be available 
for writing guidance.
 
Thesis: The Indian sub-continent is the source for a multicultural 
civilization that has lasted and evolved for several thousand years.  Its 
art is as rich and complex as that of Europe, and as diverse.  This 
course attempts to introduce the full range of artistic production in 
India in relation to the multiple strands that have made the cultural 
fabric of the sub-continent so rich.

Required Books:  (Available from the Penn Book Center)
	Craven, Roy.  A Concise History of Indian Art.  Thames and 
Hudson. 1976, reprinted 1992.
	Zimmer, Heinrich.  Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and 
Civilization. Princeton University Press.  1946.
Recommended:
	Eck, Diana.  Darsan:  Seeing the Divine Image in India.  Anima 
Books.  2nd ed., 1985.
	Harle, James C.  The Art and Architecture of the Indian 
Subcontinent.  1986.
	McEvilley, Thomas.  Art & Otherness, Crisis in Cultural 
Identity.  Documentext.  1992.
Thapar, Romila.  A History of India, part 1.  Penquin.  1966.
General Reference:  Other significant texts that provide other or 
earlier perspectives and additional plates include:
	Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. History of Indian and Indonesian Art.  1927.
Huntington, Susan.  The Art of Ancient India. 1985.
	Rowland, Benjamin.  The Art and Architecture of India:  Buddhist, 
Hindu, Jain.  1953.
Zimmer, Heinrich.  The Art of Indian Asia.  1955.

Short additional readings will be assigned during the semester.  Assigned 
reading, as much as possible, will be placed on reserve in the Fine Arts 
Library.  


Course requirements: Participation in sections; several short written 
exercises; one hour exam;  one short research paper (6-8 pp.);  and an 
expanded final paper.



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Outline of Possible Lecture Topics (subject to change from year to year)

Sept. 		Categories of India's Art History/Changing Views of Indian 
			Art as Art or Craft/Folk Art and Indian Traditions
		Geography and Historic Outline/India's Ancient Horizon, 
			the Indus Valley
		Buddhist Imperial Art Under the Mauryas
		Buddhist Populism: Shunga Art
		Architecture as Cosmogram from Sanchi to Borobudur

Oct. 		Cave architecture and Humanism under the Andhras
		Buddhist Narrative Sculpture
		Invaders: the Shakas and Kushanas
		Icons and Symbols: Origin of the Image of Buddha
		Gandhara's 'Alien' Art and India's Syncretism
		'Classic' Gupta Art: the Evolution of Buddhist 
			Sculpture
		Hindu Renaissance and the Beginnings of Temple 
			Architecture
		Painting and the Sweet-Smelling Halls of the
			Vakatakas: Ajanta

Nov.		The Spread of Buddhism and Painting to Central Asia
		Hindu Efflorescence:  Elephanta and Ellora
		Architecture as Symbol: the Hindu Temple, North 
			and South/India's 'Medieval' Sculpture
		Eroticism and Tantra
		India in Greater India: Lineage to Empire/the 
			Coming of Islam as a Cultural Interface
		Painting and Architecture in the Sultanate Period

Dec.		Indian Painting and the Patronage of the Early 
			Mughals/Mughal Buildings
		Miniature Paintings in the Hindu Courts: 17th-18th
			Centuries/Hill Painting and John Company