
Experiments with Truth
Gandhi and Images of Nonviolence
Yale University Press
Published on 13. November 2014
Book
Hardback
352 pages
978-0-300-20880-1 (ISBN)
Description
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)
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)
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
220 color + b-w illus.
Dimensions
Height: 267 mm
Width: 203 mm
Weight
1633 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-300-20880-1 (9780300208801)
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Persons
Josef Helfenstein is director and Joseph N. Newland is director of publishing, both at the Menil Collection, Houston.