Lessons of Belonging
Art, Place, and the Sea
Published on 18. May 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
174 pages
978-90-04-67891-0 (ISBN)
Description
Prompting this book is the paradox of belonging. What pushes the author to write are art's questions. Rather than take the route of writing, artists in academia could opt for the studio, teaching students, and occasionally indulge in conferences and symposia. However, beyond such rituals, writing art's questions remains akin to art's acts of belonging. In these lessons of belonging this is done through art's paradox. Belonging is a matter of art because art belongs to the aporia that writes it.
Reviews / Votes
"The profundity and scholarship of Baldacchino's thoughts, coupled with the expanding horizons of his and other artist's visual work 'show' us that belonging is always constituent, a force to originate or to instaur beyond established boundaries." - Dennis Atkinson, Goldsmiths University of London"As in previous works, John Baldacchino's artistic and philosophical writing challenges the readers to exit into the world. This exit is profoundly implied with today's politics but also with history and ways of unlearning and imagining other futures for the arts and education." - Catarina Martins, University of Porto
"John Baldacchino's latest work returns to familiar themes in his writings: the Mediterranean, longing, and art's connection with the makings of possible pasts and futures. [He] take[s] readers on a journey in which art-making challenges us to grasp what we take for granted as the meaning of belonging." - Sandro Barros, Michigan State University
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
249 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-67891-0 (9789004678910)
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Person
John Baldacchino, PhD (Warwick, 1994), is Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Specialising in art philosophy and education, he authored fourteen books, including Makings of the Sea (2010), Art's Way Out (2012), Art as Unlearning (2019) and Educing Ivan Illich (2020).
Content
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
1 Nowhere: Recurrent Exits
?1 Art's Pagan Intents
?2 Renegotiating Belonging
?3 The World, Autonomy, and Struggle
2 Scotland, Malta, Palestine: Indirect Belonging
?1 Art's Thirdness
?2 Living Somewhere
?3 Indirectness, Be-Longing
?3 Assumptions of Making
?3 Rummiena, Rummeenah, Pomegranates
3 California, Armenia: A Metier for Living
?1 Presumed Space
?2 Finding Paradox
?3 Prosthetic Syntheses
?4 Shared Belonging(s)
?5 Exiting
?6 Impasse
?7 Synthetic Prosthesis
?8 The Dialectic's Beyond
?9 Paradox's Pedagogy
?10 Wounded by Water
4 Ghana, Crete, Andalusia: Aesthetic Dissonance
?1 White Liberal Tolerance
?2 Beyond Tolerance
?3 Recognition, Specificity, Distinction
?4 Aesthetics Contra Aesthetics
5 Harlem, Hellas, Yoruba, Auschwitz: Aesthetic Identity
?1 "We Have No Models"
?2 Learning to Pray
?3 'Our' Contemporaneity
?3 The Child and the Tree
6 Paris, Prague: Art's Foreignness
?1 Beauty's Polity
?2 Normalised Deadly Phenomena
?2 An Excuse for Bildung's Attraction
?2 Remembering to Forget
?2 Avant-Nostalgia's Inverted Belonging
?2 Kundera's Excuse
7 Alexandria, Monterosso: Nostalgic Salt
?1 Performances of Difference
?2 Before and after the Shipwreck
?2 Journey and Nostalgia
?2 Poetic-Pedagogical Hypotheses
8 Al-Bahr al-Abyad, ha-Yam ha-Tikhon, Mesogeios, Mediterraneo: Thalassic Lessons
?1 Vantage Points
?2 "This 'Inland Sea' of Ideals"
?3 Doing, Undergoing, and Living Deliberately
?4 Culture, Revolt and Colonised Economies
?5 An Aesthetic Sense of Belonging
?6 Lessons of Belonging
List of Figures
1 Nowhere: Recurrent Exits
?1 Art's Pagan Intents
?2 Renegotiating Belonging
?3 The World, Autonomy, and Struggle
2 Scotland, Malta, Palestine: Indirect Belonging
?1 Art's Thirdness
?2 Living Somewhere
?3 Indirectness, Be-Longing
?3 Assumptions of Making
?3 Rummiena, Rummeenah, Pomegranates
3 California, Armenia: A Metier for Living
?1 Presumed Space
?2 Finding Paradox
?3 Prosthetic Syntheses
?4 Shared Belonging(s)
?5 Exiting
?6 Impasse
?7 Synthetic Prosthesis
?8 The Dialectic's Beyond
?9 Paradox's Pedagogy
?10 Wounded by Water
4 Ghana, Crete, Andalusia: Aesthetic Dissonance
?1 White Liberal Tolerance
?2 Beyond Tolerance
?3 Recognition, Specificity, Distinction
?4 Aesthetics Contra Aesthetics
5 Harlem, Hellas, Yoruba, Auschwitz: Aesthetic Identity
?1 "We Have No Models"
?2 Learning to Pray
?3 'Our' Contemporaneity
?3 The Child and the Tree
6 Paris, Prague: Art's Foreignness
?1 Beauty's Polity
?2 Normalised Deadly Phenomena
?2 An Excuse for Bildung's Attraction
?2 Remembering to Forget
?2 Avant-Nostalgia's Inverted Belonging
?2 Kundera's Excuse
7 Alexandria, Monterosso: Nostalgic Salt
?1 Performances of Difference
?2 Before and after the Shipwreck
?2 Journey and Nostalgia
?2 Poetic-Pedagogical Hypotheses
8 Al-Bahr al-Abyad, ha-Yam ha-Tikhon, Mesogeios, Mediterraneo: Thalassic Lessons
?1 Vantage Points
?2 "This 'Inland Sea' of Ideals"
?3 Doing, Undergoing, and Living Deliberately
?4 Culture, Revolt and Colonised Economies
?5 An Aesthetic Sense of Belonging
?6 Lessons of Belonging