Taking the form of a reader, this fascinating book explores the resonance of Gandhi’s ethics of nonviolence in the visual arts. Texts range across influences on Gandhian philosophy and outgrowths from it: the words of famous peacemakers, religious texts that inspired Gandhi, newly written historical essays, and reports on nonviolent action. Images include Gandhi’s own iconography; portraits of the Mahatma’s forebears and followers; photojournalism of nonviolent struggles in Africa, India, and the Americas; and artworks that speak to violence or issue from an inner space of peace. Experiments with Truth counterpoints poetry and ideas with mid-20th-century abstraction, sacred art from various traditions, and contemporary video and installations.
Edited by Josef Helfenstein and Joseph N. Newland, with additional contributions by Mimi Crossley Detering, Linda Hess, Toby Kamps, Vinay Lal, Neelima Shukla-Bhatt, Emilee Dawn Whitehurst, and Eric M. Wolf; and with excerpts or reprints by Amiya Chakarvarty, the Dalai Lama, John de Menil, Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Henry Dunant, Mohandas Gandhi, Abdul Ghaffar Khan, John Haynes Holmes, Kabir, Martin Luther King Jr., Abraham Lincoln, Albert Mvumbi Lutuli, Nelsom Mandela, Thich Nhat Hanh, Florence Nightingale, Jelaluddin Rumi, André Scrima, Gene Sharp, Aung San Suu Kyi, Phillips Talbot, Henry David Thoreau, and Leo Tolstoy.
Details:
Hardcover
352 pages
8 x 10 3/4 inches
Published 2014
