NATIONAL SEMINAR

On 189th anniversary of Indian Museum and birth centenary of late Prof. Niharrnanjan Ray

Approaches to Indian Art
On 8-10 February, 2003
Saturday, February 8, 2003  11.00 a.m.

Inaugural session

Welcome address : Dr. S. Chakravarti
Keynote address : Dr. Ramaranjan Mukherjee
Tribute to Prof. N. R. Ray : Shri Pranab Ranjan Ray

  12.30 p.m. : Tea  
  12.40 p. m. Session I : Methodology
Dr. Devangana Desai, Mumbai   An approach to temple art
Prof. Amita Ray, Kolkata   Ancient Indian sculpture studies - a search for alternative frame.
Dr. Gautam Sengupta, Kolkata   Rajendralal Mitra and the formative period of Indian art history
  1.30 p. m. : Lunch  
  2.30 p.m Session II Aesthetics and ideals
Dr. M. C. Joshi, New Delhi     
Dr. Geeti Sen, New Delhi   Integrating aesthetics and life
Dr. Jayanta Chakraborty, Santiniketan   Canonical prescription and creative freedom in early Indian painting
     
Sunday, Februrary 9, 2003   Session III : Aesthetics and ideals
Dr. R. Nagaswamy, Chennai   Poetic approach to Indian art
Dr. S. S. Biswas, Gurgaon   Some notes on approaching Indian art
 Dr. Satyajit Chaudhury, Naihati   Emergence of modernity in Indian aesthetics.
  12.30 p.m. : Tea  
Dr. T. K. Biswas, Varanasi   Vyakta-avyakta - a case study of a few Indian miniatures
Dr. R. D. Choudhury, New Delhi   A few aesthetic aspects of Indian art
Dr. R. C. Sharma, Varanasi   The views of late Prof. Niharranjan Ray on Mathura school of art
  1.30 p.m. : Lunch  
   2.30 p. m. : Session IV: Art & Society
 Dr. Asok Kumar Das , Santiniketan   Mughal painting : recent studies and discoveries
 Prof. Ratan Parimoo, Vadodara   Mahatma Gandhi's non-cooperative movement and the response in the art of the Tagores
Prof. Samir Kr. Mukherjee, Kolkata   Prof. Niharranjan Ray and his contribution to the studies of early Indian terracotta
Dr. Vidula Jayswal, Varanasi   Maurya columns : a reappraisal in the light of recent archaeological findings.
  5.30 p. m. Cultural programme
Monday, February 10 , 2003   Session V : Art & Society
 Dr. Enamul Haque, Dhaka    The problem of the hair - pin at Chandraketugarh
  12.30 p.m. : Tea  
Dr. Asoke Kr. Bhattachrjee, Kolkata   Mural tradition of Indian paintings.
 Dr. B. Bandyopadhyay, Kolkata   Terracotta art on recent findings from excavation at Dum Dum.
Dr. K. Sobita Devi, Imphal   Buddhist gold antiquities in the Manipur State Museum
  1.30 p.m.: Lunch  
   2.30 p. m.  Session :VI
Prof. Mihir Mohan Mukhopadhyay, Siliguri   The Kanauj school of sculpture : a critque
Dr. Julekha Haque, Dhaka   Early jewellery of Bengal
Dr. S. Chakravarti, Kolkata    
Dr. Sakti Kali Basu, Kolkata    
   Valedictory  

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