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DRAW YOUR WEAPONS
Every day, we are surrounded by, actually bombarded by images we don't necessarily know how to make sense of - images of war and violence, of drone strikes and human frailty. This book offers a language – art - for making sense of what we see. This book is also an impassioned defense of life lived by peace and principle. Sarah Sentilles's DRAW YOUR WEAPONS is a dazzling combination of memoir, history, theology, reportage, and visual culture.
DRAW YOUR WEAPONS is a meditation on war and art that asks a question -- what difference can one person make in this beautiful, imperfect world? Every day, we are surrounded by, actually bombarded by images we don't necessarily know how to make sense of - images of war and violence, of drone strikes and human frailty. This book offers a language – art - for making sense of what we see. This book is also an impassioned defense of life lived by peace and principle.
At the heart of this book is the author’s profound exploration of the way art impacts us - and how it can ultimately save us. Centered around the lives of a conscientious objector during World War II and a young soldier stationed at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, who both create art as a response to war, Sarah Sentilles's DRAW YOUR WEAPONS is a dazzling combination of memoir, history, theology, reportage, and visual culture. Sentilles shows that it is possible to act - ethically, creatively, peacefully - in the face of violence that often feels as if it can't be stopped. Who are we, as a people? Sentilles asks, in the end.
Swirling, impressionistic (no one section is longer than a few hundred words), and erudite, Sentilles has deconstructed traditional narrative by assembling a collage of images and ideas that offer a revelatory vision of how art shapes human behavior. The writing itself an artform, driving us to read on. Certainly all readers will not agree with everything in this book, and are not expected to: the goal here is to ask the questions that must be asked. This is a provocation to imagine our way out of destruction and into creation.
Sarah Sentilles is a critical theorist, scholar of religion, and author of three books, includingBreaking Up with God: A Love Story. Sentilles earned an undergraduate degree in literature and art history from Yale, and a masters and a doctorate from Harvard Divinity School, where she wrote her dissertation on the torture photographs taken at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
At the core of her scholarship, writing, and activism is a commitment to investigating the roles language, images, and practices play in oppression, violence, social transformation, and justice movements. She has taught at Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland State University, California State University Channel Islands, and Willamette University, where she was the Mark and Melody Teppola Presidential Distinguished Visiting Professor. An almost-Episcopal priest turned agnostic college professor, she taught critical theory for nearly a decade, mostly to artists. She is deeply committed to investigating how language, images, and practices contribute to social transformation
At the heart of this book is the author’s profound exploration of the way art impacts us - and how it can ultimately save us. Centered around the lives of a conscientious objector during World War II and a young soldier stationed at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, who both create art as a response to war, Sarah Sentilles's DRAW YOUR WEAPONS is a dazzling combination of memoir, history, theology, reportage, and visual culture. Sentilles shows that it is possible to act - ethically, creatively, peacefully - in the face of violence that often feels as if it can't be stopped. Who are we, as a people? Sentilles asks, in the end.
Swirling, impressionistic (no one section is longer than a few hundred words), and erudite, Sentilles has deconstructed traditional narrative by assembling a collage of images and ideas that offer a revelatory vision of how art shapes human behavior. The writing itself an artform, driving us to read on. Certainly all readers will not agree with everything in this book, and are not expected to: the goal here is to ask the questions that must be asked. This is a provocation to imagine our way out of destruction and into creation.
Sarah Sentilles is a critical theorist, scholar of religion, and author of three books, includingBreaking Up with God: A Love Story. Sentilles earned an undergraduate degree in literature and art history from Yale, and a masters and a doctorate from Harvard Divinity School, where she wrote her dissertation on the torture photographs taken at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
At the core of her scholarship, writing, and activism is a commitment to investigating the roles language, images, and practices play in oppression, violence, social transformation, and justice movements. She has taught at Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland State University, California State University Channel Islands, and Willamette University, where she was the Mark and Melody Teppola Presidential Distinguished Visiting Professor. An almost-Episcopal priest turned agnostic college professor, she taught critical theory for nearly a decade, mostly to artists. She is deeply committed to investigating how language, images, and practices contribute to social transformation
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Published 2017-07-04 by Random House |