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A Bates College artist in residence from 1980 to his death in 2015, the late Frank Glazer wrote the A Philosophy of Artistic Performance (With Some Practical Suggestions). The book is a collection of aphorisms and advice that Glazer has been amassing since the 1930s. Glazer's intention for the book was to offer...

YEAR: 2006 ARTISTS: N.B. Aldrich and Zach Poff, Astrid Bowlby, Amy Stacey Curtis, Eric Hongisto, Nicola Lopez, and Jason Rogenes AUTHORS: Liz Sheehan PUBLISHER: Bates College Museum of Art Lewiston, ME DETAILS: Softcover, 18 pages, [11 ¼ x 7 ¼ in dimensions], [25 color images] EXHIBITION: Activator DATES: January 20 – March...

"Vibrant with the intensity of blues singers."—Feminist Bookstore News "Patricia Spears Jones is cosmopolitan blues goddess alive on the wind stream of transnational homemade intimate gossip. Her poems are a highly effective antidote to living in a country where caring seems to have been placed on the Endangered Activities list."—David Rivard "Patricia...

Before there was Olive Kitteridge, there was Amy and Isabelle…“A novel of shining integrity and humor, about the bravery and hard choices of what is called ordinary life.”—Alice MunroPulitzer Prize winning author Elizabeth Strout’s bestselling and award winning debut, Amy and Isabelle—adapted for television by Oprah Winfrey— evokes a teenager's alienation...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Includes Elizabeth Strout’s never-before-published essay about the origins of The Burgess BoysNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • NPR • Good HousekeepingElizabeth Strout “animates the ordinary with an astonishing force,” wrote The New Yorker on the publication of...

“To be clear, Franny Choi’s poetry has the extraordinary ability to solder with tender focus one moment, then rage like electrical fire in the next. In Death by Sex Machine, where fem-surrogate cyborgs of film and manga are impetus for understanding personal suppression of language, Choi gives us poems that...

YEAR: 2004 ARTISTS: Zhou Hai, Jiang Jing, Zhou Min, Luo Yongjin, Lu Yuanmin, Liu Xiaodi, Zhang Xinmin AUTHORS: Elaine Tuttle Hansen, Mark H.C. Bessire, John Yu Zou, Gu Zheng, EDITOR: Mark H.C. Bessire DESIGNER: Nathaniel Kuritz PUBLISHER: Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME Details: Softcover, 47 pages, [9 x 12...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize–winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Olive Kitteridge comes a “superb” (O: The Oprah Magazine) novel that “confirms Strout as the possessor of an irresistibly companionable, peculiarly American voice.” (The Atlantic Monthly) In the late 1950s, in a small New England town, Reverend Tyler...

by Mary Morton Cowan Cyrus Field had a big dream to connect North America and the United Kingdom with a telegraph line, which would enable instant communication. In the mid-1800s, no one knew if it was possible. That didn't dissuade Cyrus, who set out to learn about undersea cables and built a network...

A sexy, propulsive novel that confronts the limits of empathy and the perils of appropriation through the eyes of a disgraced small-town librarian. Now that her brilliant botanist daughter is off at college, buttoned-up Maeve Cosgrove loves her job at a quiet Maine public library more than anything. But when a teenager accuses Maeve―Maeve!―of...

YEAR: 2003 ARTISTS: Andrew and Jamie Wyeth AUTHORS: George Contis PUBLISHER: Bates College Museum of Art Lewiston, Maine DETAILS: Softcover, foldout, [8 x 9 ¾ in dimensions], [6 color images] EXHIBITION: Andrew and Jamie Wyeth: Selections from the Collection of Victoria Browning Wyeth DATES: June 10 – October 2, 2011

This Isabella Gardner Poetry Award-winning book-length poem is a medley of voices in dialogue with each other—overheard, remembered, and internal—that represents a mind at work as it considers the destructiveness of human nature, the hypocrisy and artifice of the American dream. Voices from personal conversations, political speeches, Guantanamo detainees, news reports, and...

From the acclaimed author of Weather comes a slim, stunning portrait of a marriage–a beguiling rumination on the mysteries of intimacy, trust, faith, knowledge, and the condition of universal shipwreck that unites us all.ONE OF THE 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR – THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWA Best Book of...

This profusely illustrated catalogue covers the over fifty year career of DeWitt Hardy (1940 - 2017). A master draftsman, watercolors were his greatest achievement. Hardy fashioned the coast of southern Maine, its interior woods and fields, houses and factories, and its denizens, into the subjects of his watercolors. In complex and original...

Published on the occasion of the exhibition An Adventurous Spirit: The Jane Costello Wellehan Collection, the catalogue is a comprehensive record of the collection including illustrations of each artwork, essay, interpretive text and biographies on the artists. Year: 2021 Authors: Essay by Jessica Skwire Routhier, catalogue entries drafted by Museum of...