Experiments with Truth: Gandhi and Images of Nonviolence Regular Merchandise is accompanied by essays discussing

is accompanied by essays discussing the artistic use of ritual as a form of celebration

while those by seven curators lay bare one object biography

Michel Draguet is director general of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium

and reports on nonviolent action

” Through drawing

Experiments with Truth: Gandhi and Images of Nonviolence Regular Merchandise is accompanied by essays discussingTaking the form of a reader, this fascinating book explores the resonance of Gandhis 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 Gandhis own iconography; portraits of the Mahatmas forebears and followers; photojournalism of