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Brief
about the Department
The
Department of Fine Arts in this University was established
about 40 years back with the idea of running two
streams of Post-Graduate courses, one for M.A.(History of
Art) and the other for M.A. (Fine Arts). Due to
unavoidable circumstances, the course in Fine
Arts could not be started as yet. However, the
department has made significant contribution in
the field of the study of art history in a regular academic
curriculum. M.A.(History of Art) exists only in a few
universities of this country, and fortunately, this
department has made a mark among all of them by way of
academic contribution in
terms of research and collaborative works.
This
department has organised three national level seminars on
different aspects of art history with the financial
assistance of the U.G.C and I.C.H.R. Unfortunately, due to
various circumstances of constraints of proper funding, the
proceedings of the seminars could not be published. Of the
other important areas of development is the introduction of
the use of computers for various academic and research
purposes in this department.
Inaugurated
in 1968, the Panjab University Museum of Fine Arts which is
an integral part of Fine Arts department is the only
University Museum in India which can take legitimate pride
in having acquired around 1200 works of contemporary art -
paintings, sculptures, graphics and drawings etc. over the
past thirty years. Even with very limited budget, works of
important artists like Jamini Roy, Francis Souza,
M.F.Hussain, Satish Gujral, Paritosh Sen, J.Swaminathan, Ram
Kumar, J.Sultan Ali, A. Ramachandran, K.G.Subramanyan, Vivan
Sundram, Bhupen Khakar, Dhanraj Bhagat, P.V. Jankiram,
Pilloo Pochkhanwala, Arpana Caur etc. have been acquired.
The museum building, because of its architectural elegance,
is one of the most important landmarks in the University
Campus.
The
teaching in the department is carried out through audio
visual materials like slides, film shows,
demonstration by artists etc. In the library of the
department, there are more than 15,000 slides of which the
most important part is that of the slides acquired from the
American Committee of South Asian Art (ACSAA), U.S.A.
Moreover, every year additions are made to this collection
of slides as and when the required funds are available. The
library is equipped with most important books required by
the students and the faculty members for day-to-day teaching
and for immediate references for their research.
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