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During the nineteenth century, Americans celebrated their towns and cities through lithographic landscapes. In Maine, these prints were the work of such leading artists as Fitz Henry Lane and talented, lesser known local artists, such as Cyrus William King. Bringing many of these remarkable works together for the first time, this exhibition commemorates the bicentennial of Maine statehood and Bowdoin College's 225th anniversary. It also provid...

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Jane Sapp is a nationally admired cultural worker, musician, educator, and activist whose approach to social transformation is rooted in African American musical traditions and made available here as a resource for communities around the world. Jane actively engages people in creative cultural processes, writing songs together, telling stories, shaping festivals, and designing museums of local culture. In this volume, Jane tells the story of h...

This is the story of the contrasting Judaisms that Wendy Doniger's two parents brought from their very different homes in Europe during World War I, of their paths to a shared but sharply bifurcated life in America during World War II, her father a publisher, her mother a political activist, and of the ways in which their attitudes to religion in general, and Judaism in particular, influenced the author's development as a Jewish woman and a sc...

Formulates a framework for the development of Jewish rituals for newborn girls

Focusing on the figures of Plato, Archimedes, and Caravaggio, The Divine Spark of Syracuse discloses the role that Syracuse, a Greek cultural outpost in Sicily, played in fueling creative energies. Among the topics this book explores are Plato and the allegory of the cave, and the divine spark mentioned in his Seventh Letter. It also considers the machines of Archimedes, including his famous screw, and the variety of siege and antisiege weapon...

A study of place and creative inspiration

A guide for strategic planning in the arts, based on the current ecology of arts organizations and the culture surrounding them"--

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The first comprehensive biography of America's great mid-century impresario

A workbook accompanying the third edition of Traditio

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The first book-length treatment of how synagogues are financed in the United States