Art and Empathy

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/empathy/
http://blog.yalebooks.com/2018..../11/21/the-origin-of
Goya's The Third of May 1808: https://smarthistory.org/goya-third-of-may-1808/
Röttgen Pietà: https://www.khanacademy.org/hu....manities/ap-art-hist
Jizō Bosatsu: https://smarthistory.org/jizo-bosatsu/
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/....collection/search/44
Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala: http://www.kb.dk/permalink/200....6/poma/info/en/front
https://www.khanacademy.org/hu....manities/art-america
Chittaprosad: https://hyperallergic.com/4396....19/the-artist-who-sk
https://www.documenta14.de/en/....artists/21960/chitta
Zainul Abedin: https://www.documenta14.de/en/....artists/21944/zainul
Käthe Kollwitz: https://www.khanacademy.org/hu....manities/ap-art-hist
Vietnam Veterans Memorial: https://smarthistory.org/maya-....lin-vietnam-veterans
Alfredo Jaar's Rwanda Project: https://art21.org/read/alfredo....-jaar-the-rwanda-pro
Ghana ThinkTank: http://www.ghanathinktank.org/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRqJ-qPFvko&t=196s

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