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Abstract:
Essays on the arts including poetry, music, film, etc. and their role in the Bahá'í community.
Notes:
Only three articles and the Preface/Foreword are currently available from this book. See also a review.

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The Creative Circle:
Art, Literature, and Music in Baha'i Perspective

edited by Michael Fitzgerald
Los Angeles: Kalimat Press, 1989

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                                     Contents:

Preface
       by Michael Fitzgerald ............................................... viii

Foreword
       by Charles Wolcott .................................................... xi

Poetry and Sell-Transformation
       by Roger White ......................................................... 1 

The Creative Act and the Spirit
       by Bonnie Wilder ...................................................... 17 

But ... My Mother Was a Singer 
       by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff ............................................. 39 

The Dilemma of the Artist: A Perspective on the Development of Bahá'í Aesthetics 
       by Anne Gordon Atkinson ............................................... 51 

Can Bahá'í Art Become Distinctive? 
       by Ludwig Tuman ....................................................... 97 

The Artist As Citizen 
       by Thomas Lysaght .................................................... 121 

Restating the Idealist Theory of Art 
       by Geoffrey Nash ..................................................... 159 

Poetry and the Arts in Rebuilding Society
       by Duane L. Herrmann ................................................. 175 

Ladder of the Soul:
       An interview with Lasse Thoresen ..................................... 193 

Looking Forward in the Visual Arts 
       by Fritz A. Mann ..................................................... 213
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