How can we visualize cultural differences and alternative reference frameworks? Artist Sanny Winters and Sinologist Jeanne Boden decided to do it with aesthetics, philosophy and poetry. They created the book Mirror, a book about East and West, but most of all about how we look at...
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MIRROR, a book by Jeanne Boden & Sanny Winters.
East? West? Diversity? "Only by recognizing difference can we see ourselves."
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My confrontation and deep immersion into Asian literature, philosophy, and art often made me wonder why so little of all that was known to the general public in the West. The history of literature I was taught at university in Europe only contained only Western literature. Art history contained...
In this book I describe and apply the Cultural Quantum® Five Step Method to a variety of cases. It took me a long time to develop and fine-tune the method. My deep immersion into Asia pushed me in learning to look at the world around me beyond my the European frame of reference I was brought...