The Gift of Life: Aging and Its Representation - Hardcover

Aliaga Juan Vicente

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8496855147 ISBN 13: 9788496855144

Publisher: Centre D'art La Panera, 2008

Synopsis

Every human being is impacting by a limit, the limit of time. The ageing process, natural as it can be, is faced with the many obstacles that society imposes in order to avoid or prevent it's outcrop, and when they do they occult that they did, or at least try to disguise it. Including the term old; sounds awful to many people and is substituted in the western society for elderly, or older man/woman, grandmother/father, which seems to soften the implication and to palliate the harshness of age, the preamble to death that wanting to delay it. What importance do we concede to the experience, to the knowledge of having lived it, in days gone by without a price, the same in western culture as with other cultures, (Buddhists, Muslims...)? What can the consumer society offer to those who consume less and less and disappear form the work statistics and from labour activities? How does one speak of health to people who are unhealthy? Participating artists: Susana Casares / Ana Casas / John Coplans / Pau Faus / Hans-Peter Feldmann / Pere Formiguera / Manabu Yamanaka / Miwa Yanagi...

About this edition

• Publisher: Centre D'art La Panera
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 8496855147
• ISBN 13: 9788496855144
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 191