Experiments with truth : Gandhi and images of nonviolence / editors, Josef Helfenstein, Joseph N. Newland.
Introduces and explores the resonance of Mohandas Gandhi's (1869-1948) ethics of nonviolence in the visual arts. Taking the form of a reader, the texts range across influences on Gandhian philosophy and outgrowths from it. The accompanying images include Gandhi's own iconography, photojour...
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| Other title: | Gandhi and images of nonviolence. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Houston, Texas :
The Menil Collection,
[2014]
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| Summary: | Introduces and explores the resonance of Mohandas Gandhi's (1869-1948) ethics of nonviolence in the visual arts. Taking the form of a reader, the texts range across influences on Gandhian philosophy and outgrowths from it. The accompanying images include Gandhi's own iconography, photojournalism of related social movements and nonviolent struggles, artworks speaking to violence or issuing from an inner space of peace, and portraits of the Mahatma's forebears and followers. Experiments with Truth counterpoints art and ideas: religious art of the past, paintings and sculpture from the mid-20th century on, contemporary installations, newly written historical summaries and thematic explorations, reprints of texts by famous peacemakers, and passages in religious texts that inspired Gandhi. |
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| Item Description: | "Published in conjunction with the exhibition Experiments with Truth: Gandhi and Images of Nonviolence, organized by the Menil Collection, Houston; curated by Josef Helfenstein. The Menil Collection, October 2, 2014-February 1, 2015; International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum, Geneva, April 14, 2015-January 3, 2016"--Page [351] |
| Physical Description: | 349 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780300208801 0300208804 |