Experiments with Truth: Gandhi and Images of Nonviolence

Helfenstein, Josef and Joseph N. Newland eds

ISBN 10: 0300208804 / ISBN 13: 9780300208801

Verlag: The Menil Collection and Yale University Press, 2014

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Hardcover without dustjacket as issued, 352 pages; new condition; still sealed in shrinkwrap; clean and crisp; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ExHeTh40

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Titel: Experiments with Truth: Gandhi and Images of...

Verlag: The Menil Collection and Yale University Press

Erscheinungsdatum: 2014

Einband: Hardcover

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This fascinating book introduces and explores the resonance of 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. 

Distributed for The Menil Collection

Exhibition Schedule:

The Menil Collection
(10/02/14–02/01/15)

International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum
(04/14/15–01/03/16)

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Josef Helfenstein is director and Joseph N. Newland is director of publishing, both at the Menil Collection, Houston.