Empathy is a term we hear a lot, but what does it mean and how does it work? Looking back through art history, we find many moments when art has allowed us to share in the feelings of others, from Maya Lin’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial, to representations of the Buddhist deity Jizō Bosatsu, along with the Röttgen Pietà, Guáman Poma’s First New Chronicle and Good Government, the ink drawings of Chittaprosad and Zainul Abedin, the work of Ghana Think Tank, and more.
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Empathy: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/em…
http://blog.yalebooks.com/2018/11/21/…
Goya’s The Third of May 1808: https://smarthistory.org/goya-third-o…
Röttgen Pietà: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanitie…
Jizō Bosatsu: https://smarthistory.org/jizo-bosatsu/
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collect…
Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala: http://www.kb.dk/permalink/2006/poma/…
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanitie…
Chittaprosad: https://hyperallergic.com/439619/the-…
https://www.documenta14.de/en/artists…
Zainul Abedin: https://www.documenta14.de/en/artists…
Käthe Kollwitz: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanitie…
Vietnam Veterans Memorial: https://smarthistory.org/maya-lin-vie…
Alfredo Jaar’s Rwanda Project: https://art21.org/read/alfredo-jaar-t…
Ghana ThinkTank: http://www.ghanathinktank.org/