{"id":5437,"date":"2012-10-31T07:57:02","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T11:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/?p=5437"},"modified":"2015-12-26T23:32:41","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T04:32:41","slug":"barzun-books-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2012\/10\/barzun-books-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Barzun, Books &#038; Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jacques Barzun passed away over the weekend. He was 104 years old! He must have been doing something right. He most certainly did with his opus book, <a title=\"Wikipedia - Dawn to Decadence\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jacques_Barzun\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Dawn to Decadence<\/em><\/a>. It breaks 500 years of the history of\u00a0 Western Civilization into four periods from 1500 to the present age, which is coming to an end (just around the timing of his death, coincidentally). Will the younger generation ever read or understand the importance of his work? He was considered the most scholarly historian and intellectual of our era. Although <a title=\"Washington Post - Jacques Barzun\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/obituaries\/jacques-barzun-wide-ranging-cultural-historian-dies-at-104\/2012\/10\/26\/33a202c4-c5da-11df-94e1-c5afa35a9e59_story.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Washington Post<\/em><\/a> did a commendable write up, here&#8217;s his <a title=\"Legacy.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.legacy.com\/ns\/obituary.aspx?n=jacques-barzun&amp;pid=160663674\" target=\"_blank\">official obituary<\/a>, an excerpt is below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>&#8220;From Dawn to Decadence,&#8221; summing up a lifetime of thinking, offered a rounded, leisurely and conservative tour of Western civilization, with numerous digressions printed in the margins. Barzun guided readers from the religious debates of the Reformation to the contemporary debates on beliefs of any kind.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> &#8220;Distrust (was) attached to anything that retained a shadow of authoritativeness &#8211; old people, old ideas, old conceptions of what a leader or a teacher might do,&#8221; he wrote of the late 20th century.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> Barzun told the AP in 2003 that he remembered coming to the United States after World War I and finding a country that lived up to its own happy, informal reputation. &#8220;It was openhearted, amiable and courteous in manner, ready to try anything new,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But many of those things have gone to pieces, for understandable reasons.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>With recognition to him and his appreciation of culture and the arts, here&#8217;s a lovely piece of book art, from my archives of posts that never got written. This piece was in the <em><a title=\"School of Visual Arts\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.sva.edu\/2010\/03\/department-dossier-deborah-farber\/\" target=\"_blank\">Counterbalance<\/a><\/em> exhibition @ March, 2010 at the <a title=\"School of Visual Arts\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sva.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">School of Visual Arts<\/a> in NYC, which details the creative\/ healing process of the patient\/ client guided by the combined efforts of clinical experience with the studio art training of their psychologist\/ therapist.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Counterbalance-image.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5438\" title=\"Counterbalance-image via SVU\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Counterbalance-image.jpg\" alt=\"Counterbalance-image via SVU, as seen on Art Is Everywhere\" width=\"475\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Counterbalance-image.jpg 475w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Counterbalance-image-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like Barzun&#8217;s words, art and literature can be combined for a powerful therapeutic experience, similar to &#8220;when you experience something that\u2019s beyond words, and you can deal with it through art, there\u2019s something cathartic about that,&#8221; stated by Deborah Farber, the Chair of the Art Therapy Department. Knowledge and creativity can work in tandem to bring understanding and healing to individuals and this often crazy world in which we live&#8230;.Speaking of a kind of crazy tradition, it&#8217;s Halloween, now go dress up and scare someone and hopefully you&#8217;ll be rewarded with treats not tricks.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Halloween!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art Is Everywhere comments on the passing of Jacques Barzun and how the combination of literature and creative artwork can bring understanding and healing to the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,53,72,515,585,88,178],"tags":[2143,2141,2142,2144],"class_list":["post-5437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrations-and-all-including-sad-events","category-creative-process","category-culture","category-education","category-functional-art","category-literature","category-psychology","tag-book-art-as-art-therapy","tag-jacques-barzun","tag-school-of-visual-arts","tag-therapeutic-art-and-literature"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Barzun, Books<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Barzun, Books &amp; 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