Role and Effect of Visual Arts on Architecture
Visual arts found a very fertile ground in the architectural expressions in India of by-gone days. These expressions were motivated by certain faiths and beliefs which were experienced and practised by...
View ArticleArchitecture—A Visual Art
I have gone through most of the papers, if not all, and have studied with interest different aspects of the problems concerning architectural expression. Here are dissertations on climatology and...
View ArticleCivic Design
Schools of Architecture, in their departments of civic design, teach town planning which creates the general impression, that both are the same. The Encyclopaedia Britannica which devotes pages to...
View ArticleSeminar on Art Education
SEMINAR ON ART EDUCATION1956 Table of Contents ppREPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 1REPORT OF THE SEMINAR4 APPENDICES:Seminar on Art Education, Edited by Ashfaque Husain. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, 1956.
View ArticleB5: Art in the Education of the Adolescent
Those who are familiar with the work and experiments of Dr. Cizek, the father of Child Art will unhesitatingly agree that Art Education of the Adolescent or Art Education at the Secondary School level...
View ArticleB13: Content of Professional Education in Art
1. Scope:The paper includes considerations on Painting, Sculpture and Commercial Art. Considerations on Industrial Art are included as far as principles of art are concerned with the subject....
View ArticleB8: The Place of Art in University Education
I propose that the proper subject for discussion under the caption “Art at the University Stage” in this seminar, may be more precisely entitled “the place of Art in University Education”.And, under...
View ArticleB11: Objectives of Professional Education
It is generally believed that artists are born and not made. But, however rich may be one's potentialities and natural aptitude, if one has to take up art as a career and life's mission, one needs...
View ArticleB3: Art in the Education of the Child
The present state of teaching of art in the primary school reveals that the true function of art in the education of the child has not been realised properly. The reason no doubt is a lack of true...
View ArticleB7: Art in Social Education
The term Social Education has now taken the place of Adult Education which was primarily concerned with the problem and the need for literacy drive. Social Education is accepted in a wider context than...
View ArticleB9: Facilities for Advanced Studies
The problem of Art Education, especially of advance art studies, unlike the problem of academic or scientific education, is one of complicated nature, bristling with all sorts of difficulties. Though...
View ArticleB2: Purpose of Art in Education
Education, as we all know, has to play the leading role of bringing out that which is best in man for the benefit and betterment of mankind. This, perhaps is the only criterion to judge how a man ought...
View ArticleB17: Training of Art Teachers
At the outset it must be made clear that this paper is restricted to the topic under discussion in the light of the writer’s long experience in training Art Teachers. However, he is aware that there...
View ArticleB12: Objectives of Professional Education
The degree of civilization of a people is determined by the prevailing socio economic conditions which include the aesthetic sensibility i.e., the capacity to appreciate everything artistic and...
View ArticleB15: Content of Professional Education in Art
Professional Education in art was started in India on the lines suggested by the architects of education in the British rule, as early as the middle of the last century. More than a hundred years have...
View ArticleB10: Objectives of Professional Education
The objectives of professional education in art can be formulated only in relation to the meaning we give to the two words ‘art’ and ‘professional’. The history of Art Education of any country shows...
View ArticleB6: Art in Social Education
Social Education is both a very old and a very new concept in India. In various traditional forms, Social Education has been an integral part of our cultural stream throughout the centuries but in its...
View ArticleB4: Art in the Education of the Adolescent
Teaching of art to the adolescent must be done with tact. They should neither be treated as children, nor as adults. They require a very careful and subtle handling. They cannot be left totally to...
View ArticleB18: Teaching Staff for Professional Education
While considering the question of the teaching staff for the training of the professionals, it is presumed that such training would follow the preparatory course of study common to all who desire to be...
View ArticlePlate LXXXV - Elephanta Rock Temple, Plan in Fergusson, James, and James Burgess
Fergusson, James, and James Burgess.Plate LXXXV - Elephanta Rock Temple, Plan in Fergusson, James, and James Burgess In The Cave Temples of India. London: W. H. ALLEN & Co., et al, 1880.
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