Note :-

1. Duration of Paper: 3 Hours
2. All Questions carry equal marks.
3. Medium of Competitive Exam: Bilingual in English & Hindi
4. There will be Negative Marking.
5. Objective type paper .

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Syllabus : Art History-II

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Unit-I: Development of Western Art History

1. Writings of Vasari
2. Alberti
3. Leonardo da Vinci
4. Development of Formalism
5. Iconology
6. Writings of Wölfflin
7. Panofsky
8. Focillon
9. Riegel
10. A B Warburg
11. Semiological Analysis
12. Julia Kristeva
13. Psychoanalytical method
14. Freud
15. Jung
16. Lacan
17. Gender Studies
18. Writings of Linda Nochlin
19. Griselda Pollock

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Unit-II: Western Aesthetics

1. Impact of Greek Philosophy
2. Writings of Plato
3. Aristotle
4. Medieval Philosophy
5. Writings of Thomas Aquinas
6. Immanuel Kant
7. Sublime theory
8. Contribution of Hegel
9. Nietzsche
10. Marx
11. Heidegger
12. Walter Benjamin
13. Arthur Danto

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Unit-III: Ancient Western Art

1. Pre-Historic Painting and Sculpture
2. Lascaux
3. Altamira
4. Venus of Willendorf
5. Civilizations
6. Egypt and Mesopotamia
7. Giza
8. Karnak
9. Abu Simbel
10. Saqqara
11. Sumer
12. Babylon
13. Khorsabad
14. Nineveh
15. Persepolis
16. Development of Art in Europe
17. Aegean Civilization
18. Greek and Roman Culture
19. Athens
20. Olympia
21. Rome

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Unit-IV: Development of Christian Art

1. Creation of the Image of Christ
2. Catacombs
3. Byzantine Art
4. Development of Church Architecture
5. Dura Europa
6. Ravenna
7. Hagia Sophia
8. Romanesque Art
9. Gothic Art
10. Development of architecture
11. Development of painting

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Unit-V: Development of Renaissance Art and Architecture

1. Reasons for Renaissance
2. Rebirth of Greco Roman Philosophy
3. Neo Platonic philosophy
4. Development of architecture
5. Contribution of Brunelleschi
6. Development of Painting
7. Contribution of Giotto
8. Masaccio
9. Piero Della Francesca
10. Development of sculpture
11. Contribution of Donatello
12. Ghiberti
13. Contribution of Geovanni Bellini
14. Venetian Art

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Unit- VI: Northern Renaissance

1. Durer
2. Development of Graphic prints
3. Development of oil painting technique
4. Contribution of Rogier Vander Weyden
5. Jan Van Eyck
6. High renaissance ideals
7. Contribution of Leonardo Da Vinci
8. Michelangelo
9. Raphael
10. Shift of styles from High Renaissance to Mannerism
11. Contribution of Titian
12. Pontormo
13. Bronzino
14. Tinteretto

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Unit- VII: Baroque art and Architecture

1. Philosophy of grandeur
2. Baroque architecture
3. Concept of monumentality
4. Baroque painting
5. Element of momentum in Baroque sculpture
6. Emancipation of color
7. Rembrandt
8. Caravaggio's contribution to the concept of light in Baroque painting

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Unit-VIII: Art and the Relation to Politics

1. French Revolution and Neo-Classicism
2. Romanticism
3. Concept of Disillusion
4. Romanticism in Spain and France
5. Concept of Picturesque
6. English Romanticism
7. Influence of Socialist Movements
8. Realism
9. Impressionism
10. Challenge to the illusionism
11. Post-Impressionism as the pioneering movement of Modernism

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Unit-IX: Modernism and the Advent of Abstraction

1. Fauvism
2. Cubism
3. Futurism
4. Constructivism
5. Dada
6. Surrealism as the anti-art movement
7. Popular Art
8. Contribution of Andy Warhol
9. Robert Rauschenberg
10. Oldenburg

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Unit-X: Post-Modern Art

1. Innovative ways of Expressions in Post-Modern Art
2. Conceptual Art
3. Body Art
4. Land & Environmental Art
5. Graffiti
6. Performance Art
7. New Concerns in Art in reference to Gender Issues