The Creative Circle: Art, Literature, and Music in Bahá'í PerspectiveMichael Fitzgerald |
Contents
Poetry and SelfTransformation | 1 |
The Creative Act and the Spirit | 17 |
But My Mother Was a Singer | 39 |
Can Baháí Art Become Distinctive? | 97 |
The Artist As Citizen | 121 |
Restating the Idealist Theory of | 159 |
Poetry and the Arts in Rebuilding Society | 175 |
Ladder of the Soul | 193 |
Looking Forward in the Visual Arts | 213 |
Biographical Notes | 241 |
Common terms and phrases
Abdu'l-Bahá aesthetic Anaďs Nin Báb Bahá'í art Bahá'í artist Bahá'í community Bahá'í Faith Bahá'í Poetry Bahá'í Publishing Trust Bahá'í Studies Bahá'í teachings Bahá'í World Centre Bahá'í World Faith Bahá'í Writings Bahá'u'lláh beauty become believe Bernard Leach civilization create creative culture dance divine expression feel Geoffrey Nash Greek Guardian há'í heart House of Justice human Ibid ideal ideas images imitation individual inspiration Islamic letter listen living manifest mankind Mark Tobey means Mike mind modern moral musician nature painter painting perhaps philosophers poet potential quoted reality reflect religion religious Renaissance responsibility Revelation Robert Hayden role Sacred Shoghi Effendi social society Socrates song soul spiritual style symbolic Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh talent things tion tist tradition truth unity Universal House values vision visual arts W. B. Yeats W. H. Auden Wilmette words World Order worship wrote York