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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"
"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"
Cultural critics from around the world offer their views on the
issue of the artist's responsibility to society. The contributors
to this collection look beyond censorship and free speech issues to
emphasize the subject of freedom. More specifically, they question
the ethical, mutual responsibilities between artists and the
societies in which they live. Their essays address an eclectic
range of subjects: censorship, multiculturalism, the transition
from communism to capitalism in Eastern Europe, postmodernism,
Salman Rushdie, and the responsibility of young black film-makers
to the black community.
First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
Losing Helen is a moving and inspiring essay that tracks an adult
daughter through the many complex phases of grief as she
anticipates the inevitable loss of her elderly mother. Finding
strength and guidance in the spiritual insights of writers,
artists, Western religion, and Eastern philosophies, the narrator
undergoes a profound transformation while striving to design an
end-of-life experience that is meaningful and sacred not only for
her mother but also for herself.
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Daan Roosegaarde (Paperback)
Carol Becker, Nico Daswani, Fumio Nanjo
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R1,316
R891
Discovery Miles 8 910
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The first monograph on the indefatigable explorer of relationships
between people, technology, and environmental issues.
Psychologists report that anxiety has replaced depression as the
number one challenge to a woman's sense of well-being and good
mental health. Through extensive personal interviews with
individuals, groups, and therapists, author Carol Becker examines
the most prevalent forms of anxiety among women-and the often
subtle and surprising physical and emotional ways in which it
negatively manifests itself. Through astute analysis and with
compassionate insight, Becker helps readers understand how change
provokes anxiety and also discover its great potential as a tool in
restoring psychic health. This book offers women of all ages the
support and guidance they need to transform anxiety into positive
change and lead happier, more confident, and fully empowered lives.
God revealed His purpose for creating man in Genesis 1:28 and
commanded man to do four things: " And God blessed them, and God
said unto them, 1)Be fruitful, and 2) multiply, and 3) replenish
the earth, and 4) subdue it: and have dominion....: " In the past,
people read that and thought it only meant, " Have all the children
you possibly can." The four laws of productivity are not confined
to man's reproduction. They are the foundation of all productivity.
They are the keys to fulfilling God's purpose and plan for each of
us, .
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