Love and Immortality in China
A Taoist Drama: Action To No Action
By Hans Guggenheim
About the Author
Hans Guggenheim (b. Berlin 1924), was educated in England
and lived in Guatemala during World War II. where he had his first one-man
exhibition at the Club Guatemala,1945. In New York he studied Art history at
the Institute of Fine Arts (NYU) with Alfred Salmony, an expert on Chinese art,
and Jose Lopez-Rey, an expert on Goya. From 1956 -1958, he traveled as an
artist for LIFE magazine through Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan ,India and
Japan. Guggenheim’s Ph.D. dissertation in Anthropology was on National
Self-Image formation in the Arts. He taught as Associate Professor of
Anthropology at MIT and Visiting Scholar at Harvard’s Center for International
Affairs where he did research for UNESCO. At the time of the drought in Mali to
built water-granaries for the Dogon with the support of his friend Lester
Wunderman. He was president of the Worldcrafts Fdt. for UNESCO and In 976 he
founded Projet Guggenheim which evolved into Projectguggenheim in
1996.(www.projectguggenheim.org) . With the goal of providing opportunities for
young artists and to encourage innovation as well continuity for ancient art
traditions, PROJECTGUGGENHEIM established schools and programs in many
countries including the Peoples Republic of China Autonomous Region of Tibet,
Mali, Guatemala ,Israel, Tonga and Macedonia.
Hans Guggenheim lives in Boston.
Jerry Zhu Peihan met Dr.Guggenheim in 2004 when she first
volunteered as an interpreter for the exhibition of the Hans Guggenheim
collection of Goya’s ‘Disasters of War’ at the Nanjing Museum. Jerry Zhu Peihan
was a student at the Center for International Relations of John Hopkins
University in Nanjing and has continued to collaborate with Dr.Guggenheim on a
wide range of projects.
Overview
Embark on an exciting expedition to China at the turbulent
beginning of the Western Han Dynasty to search for Zhang Liang, a famed
innovator of military strategies who metamorphosed from a would-be assassin
into a Taoist immortal and for Jade, his eternally beautiful partner in love
and war.
Author Hans Guggenheim has woven an enchanting tale about Love And Immortality
In China that will rivet readers from beginning to end…
Product Details
Paperback: 194 pages
Publisher: Xlibris
Corporation (November 23, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1453575472
ISBN-13: 978-1453575475
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