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 : Sculpture -II

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1. Unit 1: Western Aesthetics

1. Plato
2. Aristotle
3. Immanuel Kant
4. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
5. Sigmund Freud
6. Jean-Paul Sartre
7. Martin Heidegger
8. Walter Benjamin
9. Arthur Danto

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2. Unit 2: Methods, Materials, Elements and Principles of Sculpture

1. Fundamentals and elements of sculpture
2. Origin and development of imagery in sculpture
3. Classification of sculpture
4. Sculptural form vis-a-vis conceptual reality
5. Study of form, material, methods, and techniques relevant to sculptural practice
6. Clarity of understanding of terminologies related to the art of sculpture.
7. Study of varied media in sculptural practice:
   1. Clay and wax:
      1. Preparation of natural clay for sculpture
      2. Modelling and casting with clay
      3. Terracotta & firing of clay
      4. Types of kilns
      5. Possibilities in the range of colours and pigments in ceramic works
      6. Two-dimensional and three-dimensional modes in clay sculptures
      7. Modelling and carving in wax
   2. Plaster of Paris (POP):
      1. History, chemical composition and physical nature of POP
      2. Advantages and disadvantages of working with POP
      3. Accelerating and retarding agents
      4. Surface treatment of POP
      5. Casting and carving in POP
   3. Wood:
      1. Nature and varieties of wood
      2. Carving tools and methods of carving for sculpting in wood
      3. Seasoning and preservation of wood
      4. Finishing and staining of wood
   4. Stone:
      1. Origin of sculpting in stone
      2. Tools and equipment, methods and approaches relevant to stone carving
      3. Treatment and preservation of stone against weathering
   5. Metal:
      1. History of metal sculptures
      2. Processes involved in the use of metal as medium for sculpture
      3. Physical properties and classification of metals as ferrous and non-ferrous, alloy, etc
      4. Bronze as the primary sculptural metal
      5. The Lost-wax method (cire-perdue)
      6. Indigenous methods including “gravity casting", "sand casting", etc
      7. Melting points of metals
      8. Surface treatment viz. anodising, oxidation and patination
      9. Welding and forging processes for working with metals
      10. Preservation of metal sculptures
8. Monumental sculptures
9. Assemblage and Installation
10. History & background of mix-media
11. New Hybrid forms of 1960's and more recent developments
12. Public sculptures
13. Environmental art

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3. Unit 3: Sculptural developments from Prehistoric period to Realism (1900s)

1. Prehistoric sculptures
2. Egyptian sculpture
3. Mesopotamian sculpture
4. Etruscan sculpture
5. Greek sculpture
6. Roman sculpture
7. Romanesque sculpture
8. Gothic Sculpture
9. Renaissance Sculpture
10. Baroque Sculpture
11. Rococo Sculpture
12. Neoclassical Sculpture

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4. Unit 4: Sculptural developments from Impressionism to Minimalism (1900s–1970s)

1. Honore Daumier
2. Auguste Rodin
3. Camille Claudel
4. Medardo Rosso
5. Paul Gauguin
6. Aristide Maillol
7. Antoine Bourdelle
8. Henri Matisse
9. Edgar Degas
10. Ernst Barlach
11. Constantin Brancusi
12. Kathe Kollwitz
13. Pablo Picasso
14. Aleksandr Archipenko
15. Marcel Duchamp
16. Jacques Lipchitz
17. Umberto Boccioni
18. Vladimir Tatlin
19. Naum Gabo
20. Jean Arp
21. Max Ernst
22. Antoine Pevsner
23. Alexander Calder
24. Henry Moore
25. Barbara Hepworth
26. David Smith
27. Louise Bourgeois
28. Isamu Noguchi
29. Alberto Giacometti
30. Cesar
31. Marino Marini
32. George Segal
33. Claes Oldenburg
34. Anthony Caro
35. Tony Smith
36. Donald Judd
37. Carl Andre
38. Joseph Kosuth
39. Eva Hesse
40. Barry Flanagan
41. Georg Baselitz
42. Joseph Beuys

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5. Unit 5: Contemporary Sculptural developments- American, European and Far Eastern

1. Andy Warhol
2. Christo and Jeanne-Claude
3. Damien Hirst
4. Jeff Koons
5. Kiki Smith
6. Jimmie Durham
7. Antony Gormley
8. Anselm Kiefer
9. Ron Mueck
10. Marc Quinn
11. Richard Serra
12. Nam June Paik
13. Marina Abramović
14. Robert Gober
15. Thomas Houseago
16. Adrián Villar Rojas
17. Magdalena Abakanowicz
18. Huma Bhabha
19. Ai Weiwei
20. Urs Fischer
21. Other artists engaged in revolutionising sculptural practice.