Mohandas K. Gandhi is a complex and complicated figure, deeply shaped by his own inner search and conflicts as well as by British India's overwhelmingly complex transition from colony to divided, hostile modern nation states. Rather than being rooted in an interest in Gandhi as a person, his biography, or the historical context in which he acted, the exhibition attempts to answer the question of how his images are defined that can possibly illustrate an 'aesthetic of nonviolence'. The show is shaped around art works and artefacts in the Menil Collection. The input of artists evidences the many ways that nonviolence and humanist values can be expressed even without plain language.
Including plates of exhibits.
Onsite
English
2015
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catalogue
Introduction - Josef HELFENSTEIN
Experiments with Truth: Gandhi and Images of Nonviolence
Gandhi
Salt and the March to Freedom - Vinay LAL
Gandhi's Letter to Lord Irwin, Viceroy of India (1930)
Four Alternatives to Civilization: Gandhi's Ashrams, Their Principles and Sources - Eric M. WOLF
Gandhi's Constructive Program (1945)
Henri Cartier-Bresson and Gandhi's Last Days - Toby KAMPS
Gandhi in East Bengal (1950) - Amiya CHAKARVARTY
Gandhi's 1947 East Bengal March - Phillips TALBOT
Peace and Justice Advocates - Joseph NEWLAND
Quakers, or the Society of Friends: Quaker Declaration of 1660
Leo Tolstoy: The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1893)
John Ruskin
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau: Resistance to Civil Government, or Civil Disobedience (1849)
Sojourner Truth
Frederick Douglas: The End of All Compromises with Slavery-Now and Forever (1854)
Abraham Lincoln: The Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
Florence Nightingale: Letter to the Lord Mayor of London (1877)
Henry Dunant: The Blood-Drenched Future (ca.1880s)
Clara Barton
Te Whiti
Doukhobors
Albert Schweitzer
Abdul Ghaffar Khan: On Non-Violence (1969)
Gandhi's Early Advocates in America
John Haynes Holmes: Who Is the Greatest Man in the World Today? (1921)
Martin Luther King Jr.: On Gandhi, and On Nonviolent Resistance (1958)
Bayard Rustin
James Lawson
W.E.B. Du Bois
Gandhi and the American Negroes (1957)
Albert Mvumbi Lutuli: The African Women's Demonstration in Natal (1959)
Nelson Mandela: The Sacred Warrior (1999)
Dalai Lama: A Tribute to Gandhi (2009)
Thich Nhat Hanh: The Roots of War (1991)
Aung San Suu Kyi: Freedom from Fear (1991)
Cesar Chavez
Óscar Romero: Nobel Peace Prize Nomination Letter (1978)
The Chipko Movement, Wangari Mathaai, Rigoberta Menchú Tum
Gene Sharp: 198 Methods of Nonviolent Action (1973)
Sacred Texts
The Sermon on the Mount
Bhagavad Gita 2:54-72, Gandhi's Favorite Passage
Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram - Vinay LAL
Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram Vaishnavajana to, Translated by Neelima Shukla Bhatt
Gandhi’s Anthem for Moral Inspiration: Vaishnavajana to - Neelima SHUKLA-BHATT
Five Great Jain Vows, Five Moral Principles of Yoga, Gandhi’s Ashram Vows
Poems by Kabir, Translated by Linda Hess
Gandhi and Kabir - Linda HESS
Poems by Jelaluddin Rumi, Translated by Coleman Barks
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
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
A Chronology of Selected Nonviolent and Humanitarian Actions
Experiments with Truth: Gandi and Images of Nonviolence
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