Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Preliminary Material / Author: John Baldacchino -- Copyright page / Author: John Baldacchino -- Advance Praise for Lessons of Belonging: Art, Place and the Sea / Author: John Baldacchino -- Dedication / Author: John Baldacchino -- Acknowledgements / Author: John Baldacchino -- List of Figures / Author: John Baldacchino -- Chapter 1 Nowhere -- Recurrent Exits / Author: John Baldacchino -- Chapter 2 Scotland, Malta, Palestine -- Indirect Belonging / Author: John Baldacchino -- Chapter 3 California, Armenia -- A Métier for Living / Author: John Baldacchino -- Chapter 4 Ghana, Crete, Andalusia -- Aesthetic Dissonance / Author: John Baldacchino -- Chapter 5 Harlem, Hellas, Yoruba, Auschwitz -- Aesthetic Identity / Author: John Baldacchino -- Chapter 6 Paris, Prague -- Art’s Foreignness / Author: John Baldacchino -- Chapter 7 Alexandria, Monterosso -- Nostalgic Salt / Author: John Baldacchino -- Chapter 8 Al-Baħr al-Abyad, ħa-Yam ħa-Tikhon, Mesógeios, Mediterraneo -- Thalassic Lessons / Author: John Baldacchino.

Prompting this book is the paradox of belonging. What pushes the author to write are art’s questions. Rather than take the route of writing, artists in academia could opt for the studio, teaching students, and occasionally indulge in conferences and symposia. However, beyond such rituals, writing art’s questions remains akin to art’s acts of belonging. In these lessons of belonging this is done through art’s paradox. Belonging is a matter of art because art belongs to the aporia that writes it.

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