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Thinking in Place - Art, Action, and Cultural Production (Paperback)
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Thinking in Place - Art, Action, and Cultural Production (Paperback)
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"Thinking in Place" is a meditation on place as a physical as well
as a conceptual construct that encompasses both history and memory.
The book begins with Defining Place, a piece about the memory of
childhood as located in two unique locations Crown Heights, in
Brooklyn, New York, and Hastings, a coal-mining town in Western
Pennsylvania. These were the two locations of Becker s childhood
and of her multiple dual-identities as Russian Jewish/Polish
Catholic, urban/rural and working class/peasant. This essay sets up
the underlying premise of the book, which is that writing is the
ultimate place of safety and sanity in the midst of the complexity
of identity. The second essay is about growing up near the Brooklyn
Museum in New York, a place that established for Becker the value
of public institutions and thus made possible a long career of
working in an art school connected to a great historical museum.
This is one of three pieces that takes its location from the
pedagogical site of educating artists.The last four essays in the
book are specific to site and history. One is located at the site
of the My Lai massacre. Another is focused on the production of an
archive by indigenous women who survived apartheid South Africa.
Another essay begins at Birla House, the place where Gandhi was
shot, and focuses on the public image of Gandhi s Body, exploring
the idea that the more naked he becomes in appearance, the more
powerful he becomes in the world. The final essay is a meditation
on the high waters of Venice, a city that is losing ground,
literally, each year, but that houses some of the greatest
paintings ever painted a site of dreams, memories, obsessions about
the past, filled with premonitions of the future.There are ten
essays, and each is unique in style and approach. Each is also
passionate in its attempt to translate the experiential into the
analytic, and to use each experience to contemplate the evolution
of the thought as a potential agent for social change.Read about
Carol's thoughts on life, art, and her new book in this interview
in The Brooklyn Rail here: Brooklyn Rail Interview"
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