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Experiments with truth : Gandhi and images of nonviolence
- Title
- Experiments with truth : Gandhi and images of nonviolence / editors, Josef Helfenstein, Joseph N. Newland.
- Publication
- Houston Texas : The Menil Collection, [2014]
- New Haven, Connecticut : Distributed by Yale University Press, [2014]
- ©2014
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- Description
- 349 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits; 28 cm
- 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.
- Alternative Title
- Gandhi and images of nonviolence
- Subjects
- Note
- "Published in conjunction with the exhibition Experiments with Truth: Gandhi and Images of Nonviolence, organized by the Menil Collection, Houston; curated by Josef Helfenstein."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction / Joseph Helfenstein -- Gandhi: Salt and the march to freedom / Vinay Lal -- Four alternatives to Civilization: Gandhi's ashrams, their principles and sources / Eric M. Wolf -- Henri Cartier-Bresson and Gandhi's last days / Toby Kamps -- Peace and justice advocates / Joseph N. Newland -- Sacred texts -- Houston: Styles of Change: John de Menil and civil rights in Houston / Mimi Crossley Detering -- Memo about the Black Panthers and De Luxe Theater / John de Menil -- Martin of Tours and the word "chapel" / André Scrima -- Can the sacred withstand the violence of the truth / Emilee Dawn Whitehurst -- Coda: On the art of dying: death and the specter of Gandhi / Vinay Lal.
- Call Number
- JQF 15-89
- ISBN
- 0300208804
- 9780300208801
- LCCN
- 2014948503
- OCLC
- 877370103
- Title
- Experiments with truth : Gandhi and images of nonviolence / editors, Josef Helfenstein, Joseph N. Newland.
- Publisher
- Houston Texas : The Menil Collection, [2014]
- Distributor
- New Haven, Connecticut : Distributed by Yale University Press, [2014]
- Copyright Date
- ©2014
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Helfenstein, Josef.Newland, Joseph N.Menil Collection (Houston, Tex.), host institution.
- Research Call Number
- JQF 15-89