Art History 207~~Fall 2000 |
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Avalokiteshvar Padmapani
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Weeks 1 & 2 |
Tuesday, Sept. 26 |
Introduction: scope of course, study resources; geography of India; formal concerns in the study of sculpture, painting, and architecture. Ancient civilization of the Indus river valley: sources of Indian imagery.
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Thursday, Sept. 28 |
The Vedic period: Gautama Shakyamuni and the emergence of Buddhism.
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Tuesday, Oct. 3 |
The Mauryan period: Buddhism, Asoka, and imperial and vernacular traditions of art. The stupa at Bharhut
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Thursday, Oct. 5 |
The Shunga and Andhra periods: the stupa as architecture and sculpture; the rock-cut chaitya and the tradition of rock-cut architecture in India.
Sources....pp. 153 - top of 159 ('Mahayana Buddhism: The Greater Vehicle'); p. 160 ('The Bodhisattva'); pp. 169 - 170 ('The Good Deeds of the Bodhisattva'); pp. 175 - 176 ('Faith in Emptiness' and 'Karma and Rebirth'). |
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