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Courses » Visual Perception and Art: A Survey Across the Cultures

Visual Perception and Art: A Survey Across the Cultures

About the course
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.

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Final Exam (in-person, invigilated, currently conducted in India) is mandatory for Certification and has INR Rs. 1100 as exam fee.


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

Prerequisites
No

Industries that will recognize this course
Universities and Academic Institutions that teach and research in Visual Arts & Cultural Anthropology; Museums and Art Galleries that deal with visual arts.

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Course Instructor



Prof. Soumik Nandy Majumdar is an Assistant Professor at Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan in the department of History of Art, Kala Bhavana (The Institute of Fine Arts & Crafts). Prof. Majumdar has taught as a Visiting Faculty at IIT- Kanpur, in the discipline of Fine Arts, under the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences. He completed his BFA and MFA in History of Art from Santiniketan and M.S.University, Baroda respectively. He is involved in teaching art history, conducting courses on art-appreciation, art criticism, art curating and researching on art-education.

Course layout


Week 1: Introduction to Visual Perception


Week 2: Visual Perception and Visual Communication


Week 3: Visual Perception and Visual Culture 


Week 4: Visual Perception and Modern Art


Suggested Reading

  • Visual thinking, Rudolf Arnheim, University of California Press, 2004
  • Art and visual perception, Rudolf Arnheim, University of California Press, 2004
  • Visual Perception, Theory and Practice, Terry Caelli, Elsevier, 2014
  • About looking, John Berger, Bloomsbury, 2009
  • Ways of Seeing, John Berger, Penguin 1972
  • Visual Perception and Cognition in Infancy, Carl Granrud, Psychology Press, 1993
  • Theories of Visual Perception, Ian E. Gordon. Wiley 1997
  • Visual Perception: An Introduction, Michael Swanston and Nicholas Wade, Routledge, 1991
  • Vision and art, Margaret Livingstone, Abrams 2002
  • Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture, Lisa Cartwright and Marita Sturken, Oxford University Press, 2012
CERTIFiCATION EXAM :
  • The exam is optional for a fee.
  • Date and Time of Exam: October 7, 2018 (Sunday): 
  • Time of Exams: Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon session: 2pm to 5pm.
  • Exam for this Course will be available in both morning & afternoon sessions.
  • Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.
  • The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published.
CERTIFCATION:

  • Final score will be calculated as : 25% assignment score + 75% final exam score
  • 25% assignment score is calculated as 25% of average of  Best 3 out of 4 assignments
  • E-Certificate will be given to those who register and write the exam and score greater than or equal to 40% final score. Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Kanpur.It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.