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    This course explores visual art forms like painting, dance, photography, cinema, television, and graphic fiction through an interdisciplinary lens. The course is divided into 5 units that examine concepts, genres and individual artworks through lectures, discussions, and audiovisual materials. Students will develop their understanding of aesthetics and the relationships between the humanities and visual culture through engaging with representative works and completing internal and external evaluations including exams, presentations, and a final paper.

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    Level: BA English Major, Paper V Full Marks: 100

    Year: Third Contact hours: 150


    Course Title: Visual Arts

    Course Code: ENGL 425

    Description
    This interdisciplinary course explores the humanities through different visual art forms. Students in their
    receptive interactions with representative artworks, including painting, dance, photography, cinema,
    television, video, and graphic fiction inculcate in the relationships of the humanities to values. Genre–
    based approach of this course offers participants and audiences opportunities to learn concepts and
    perspectives, methods and techniques to examine in–depth aesthetics of different artworks.

    Contents
    Unit I: Concepts and Perspectives in Visual Arts 30 hours
    Visual culture and the meanings of culture (Rampley’s Exploring Visual Culture)
    Definitions of art and the art world (Mulholland in Rampley’s Exploring Visual Culture)
    Global visual culture (Mirzoeff’s Visual Culture)
    The Humanities: An Introduction (Ch 01: Martin & Jacobus’s The Humanities through the Arts)
    The Interrelationships of the Arts (Ch 15: Martin & Jacobus’s The Humanities through the Arts)
    The Interrelationships of the Arts (Ch 16: Martin & Jacobus’s The Humanities through the Arts)

    Unit 2: Painting and Dance (from Martin & Jacobus’s The Humanities through the Arts) 30 hours
    i) Painting
    Your Visual Powers
    The Media of Painting
    Elements of Painting
    The Clarity of Painting
    The “All–at–Onceness” of Painting
    Abstract Painting
    Intensity and Restfulness in Abstract Painting
    Representational Painting
    Comparison of Five Impressionist Paintings
    Frames
    Some Painting Styles of the Past 150 Years
    Texts: Kiran Manandhar: “The Female Company”
    Mithila Painting “Kohbar or the Nuptial Chamber.” Mithila Nepal Kohbar
    Painting
    Artist Hari Prasad Sharma's paintings (with music)
    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F0RAk-
    RcmY&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3YgP50B5peen7MP0XnD3V0k
    o8kPN8qiPl0WZGBD7zzgaSnWXiaGOOxRuo>

    ii) Dance
    The Subject Matter of Dance
    Form
    Dance and Ritual
    Ballet
    Modern Dance
    Popular Dance
    Texts: Newari Dhime Dance/100 Performers in Basantapur/International Folk Festival/
    Nepal <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qopp9ct-LJ0>

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    Tharu Sakhiya Dance By 400 Dancers || 2076 Sakhiya Naach Dang
    <https://www.youtu.be.com/watch?v=83BnibT0hJA>
    New Sorathi Deusi Bhailo Song 2077
    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFlqUvFAEdc>
    Tamang selo song
    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hebtjyFeoBs>
    Nepali folk dance Sakela from Khumbu or Rai tribe
    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeUyquTDDKo>
    TORAN-LHA l Thakali Song l (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)
    < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bWJ8eQS94E>
    Sherpa Cultural Shebru (Nela Sangpo)
    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f95xwK2x29w>

    Unit 3: Photography and Cinema (from Martin & Jacobus’s The Humanities through the Arts) 30 hours
    i) Photography
    Photography and Painting
    Straight Photography
    The Documentarists
    The Modern Eye
    Texts: “Gertrude Kasebier.” Portrait –Miss N. (Evelyn Nesbitt), 1902.
    Min Bajracharya’s iconic photograph of Durga Thapa, 22, as she leapt up
    during a victory rally on 9 April 1990 to shout “Long live democracy!”
    <https://www.nepalitimes.com/banner/one-moment-30-years-ago-
    today/>

    ii) Cinema
    The Subject Matter of Film
    Directing and Editing
    The Participate Experience and Film
    The Film Image
    Camera Point of View
    Violence and Film
    Sound
    Image and Action
    Film Structure
    Cinematic Significance
    The Context of Film History
    Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather
    Experimentation
    Texts: Alfred Hitchcock, dir : The Birds
    Eric Valli, dir : Caravan

    Unit 4: Television and Video Art (from Martin & Jacobus’s The Humanities through the Arts) 30 hours

    The Evolution of Television


    The Subject Matter of Television and Video Art
    Commercial Television
    Video Art
    Texts:

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    The Sixties The Years That Shaped a Generation {PBS Documentary 2005}.
    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWQms7DAcR4> DVD.
    Top 10 Most Expensive Commercials
    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00cjfoC67mU>

    Unit 5: Graphic Fiction 30 hours


    Georges Remi “Hergé” : Tintin in Tibet
    Neil Gaiman : Coraline

    Evaluation
    Internal evaluation 30
    Total of 30 marks of the internal evaluations can be divided into these categories.

    Attendance and Participation 05


    Presentation, Portfolio* 15
    Mid-term 10
    * Any writing project that assesses the progress of a student as a writer over the year. The
    final essay, FOUR to FIVE pages in length, must follow the MLA documenting style as
    given in Patterns of College Writing.
    External evaluation 70
    Final sit-in Examination

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    Prescribed Texts
    Selections from these books
    Martin, David F. The Humanities through the Arts. New York: McGraw –Hill Education, 2015.
    Mirzoeff, Nicholas. An Introduction to Visual Culture. London: Routledge, 2009.
    Rampley, Matthew. Exploring Visual Culture. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2005.

    Dance
    Newari Dhime Dance / 100 Performers in Basantapur / International Folk Festival /
    Nepal. Kathmandu: Kathmandu Durbar Square
    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qopp9ct-LJ0>

    Fiction
    Remi, Georges “Hergé”. Adventures of Tintin in Tibet. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2003.
    Gaiman, Neil. Coraline. New York: Harper Collins, 2012.

    Photography
    Marien, Mary Warner. “Gertrude Kasebier.” Portrait . Photography: A Cultural History. New Jersey:
    Prentice Hall, 2002. Platinum print. National Gallery of Canada/Musee des Beaux–Arts du
    Canada, Ottawa. P. 193.
    Marien, Mary Warner. “The New Face of America.” Photography: A Cultural History. New Jersey:
    Prentice Hall, 2002. Platinum print. National Gallery of Canada/Musee des Beaux–Arts du
    Canada, Ottawa. P. 493.

    Film
    Hitchcock, Alfred, dir. Birds. California: NBCUniversal Film and Entertainment, 1963. Running
    time:120 minutes
    Valli, Eric, dir. Caravan/ Himalaya. New York: Kino Video International, 1999. Running time: 108
    Minutes

    Prescribed texts: All of the texts included in respective five units of this syllabus.

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