Publication - Love and Immortality in China

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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