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Finding Comfort in Difficult Times: A Selection of Soldiers' Bibles
$4.95
Finding Comfort in Difficult Times: A Selection of Soldiers' Bibles. Written
by Dr. Liana Lupas, Curator of the Rare Bible Collection @ MOBIA, this
full color 89-page booklet accompanies the Museum's exhibition, Finding Comfort in Difficult Times: A Selection of Solders' Bibles. The
fifth in our Rare Bible Series, this booklet discusses the history Bible distribution to American soldiers by the American Bible
Society. In the last 150 years, tens of millions of Bibles have been
distributed to American soldiers on active duty, as prisoners of war,
and to the sick and the wounded. This volume illustrates the history of
Bible printing and the massive effort to meet the spiritual needs of
servicemen and women throughout 11 wars, including the American Civil
War, the Spanish-American War, World Wars I and II, and the conflicts in
Iraq and Afghanistan. It also also reveals touching accounts of
hardship and faith within the tragic context of these conflicts as
evidenced through the marks and inscriptions left on the books
themselves. The soldiers’ own words provide an intimate glimpse of the
travels, travails and sheer courage of those who fought for this
country.
Walls Speak: The Narrative Art of Hildreth Meière
$35.00
This illustrated catalog has been published in connection with the exhibition, Walls
Speak: The Narrative Art of Hildreth Meière. Joseph A. LoSchiavo, Associate
Vice-President, St. Bonaventure University and Executive Director, The Regina A.
Quick Center for the Arts, provides a preface for this publication. The exhibition first opened at the Quick
Center for the Arts then traveled to the National
Building Museum in Washington, D.C. in spring, 2011. The exhibit is on view at the Museum of Biblical Art from February 3 - May 20, 2012.
In
her lifetime (1892-1961), Hildreth Meière was considered the most famous,
distinguished, and prolific Art Deco muralist in the U.S. She was also one
of America's leading practitioners of the art of mosaic and an esteemed embellisher of architectural environments. She is an important
figure in the history of American liturgical art and one of its most ecumenical
practitioners. The challenge in presenting the work of Hildreth Meière has been
in making her mosaics, murals, ceramic tile decoration, stained glass, and
exterior metal and enamel sculptures come alive for the visitor. "We do this
through preparatory sketches, painted cartoons, models, large mosaic samples,
and painted altarpieces," says Catherine C. Brawer, the curator of Walls Speak:
The Narrative Art of Hildreth Meière.
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