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Place for the Arts: The MacDowell Colony, 1907-2007

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Title: Place for the Arts: The MacDowell Colony, 1907-2007
Author: Wiseman, Carter
ISBN: 9781584656098
Publisher: MacDowell
Published: 2007
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Condition: Used: Near Fine
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Publisher Description:
The MacDowell Colony has nurtured some of the nation's most influential talents in the creative arts, from Edward Arlington Robinson and Thornton Wilder to Leonard Bernstein, Milton Avery, and Alice Walker. Founded in 1907 in Peterborough, New Hampshire, by the pioneering composer Edward MacDowell and his wife, Marian, the MacDowell Colony soon became a catalytic element in American culture. Based on the radically simple idea that creative people work best when they have time, space, privacy, and the opportunity to interact with fellow artists, the Colony has for the past century provided individual studios as well as living accommodations to thousands of writers, visual artists, composers, filmmakers, architects, and interdisciplinary artists who have gone on to chart the course of the nation's artistic life. Richly illustrated with original and vintage photographs, this volume includes a colorful history of the Colony, as well as insightful essays.