*Indian Popular Visual Culture*

 Goa University resumes its Visiting Research Professor Programme in the
second half of the academic year with Professor Jyotindra Jain’s course on
INDIAN POPULAR VISUAL CULTURE. Professor Jyotindra Jain, a Mario Miranda
Chair Visiting Professor in Fine Art/Painting/Illustrative Cartooning,
etc., will be at Goa University from 2nd to 14th December. Sparked largely
by a widespread use of media images in Hindu religious forms of
representation in contemporary India, the visual image has attracted much
attention among scholars of modern South Asia. The *Picture *is a mode for
representing and organising the perceptual world into a sensible unity.
With no words, it speaks more than the words. The *Picture *is also a mode
of controlling, a form of representation introduced in India through
British colonialism. Recognising the dominance of the visual culture, in
the printed image, photography, propaganda industries, fashion, and around
trade and urbanism, etc., this Course offers a critical understanding of
the role of popular Indian visual culture of the 19th and 20th centuries in
the construction of cultural, social and national identities.

Prof. Jyotindra Jain is an Indian art and cultural historian and
museologist. A scholar on folk and ritual arts of India, he was the
Director of the National Crafts Museum, New Delhi, Member Secretary and
Professor (Cultural Archives), at Indira Gandhi National Centre for the
Arts (IGNCA), New Delhi, and also Professor at the School of Arts and
Aesthetics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. His teaching and research
encompass the entire breadth of folk and tribal art, Indian popular visual
culture, ritual dynamics and cultural institutions of the 19th and
20thcenturies. He has published a number of books on Indian folk art,
including, *Ganga Devi: Tradition and Expression in Mithila Painting*, *Other
Masters: Five Contemporary Folk and Tribal Artists of India* and *Kalighat
Painting: Images from a Changing World*.

He has been an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, a Homi Bhabha Fellow and a
visiting Professor at the Center for the Study for World Religions, Harvard
University, USA, and was awarded the Prince Claus Awards in 1998.

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[ Parag Datta Parobo, Dept. of History, Goa University, Course Coordinator]



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