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Brian H. Peterson's book, THE BLOSSOMING OF THE WORLD: ESSAYS AND IMAGES, published by Tell Me Press, is named one of Library Journals 7 Best Books of 2011 in the Spiritual Living category. CLICK HERE
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The Smile at the Heart of Things

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Brian H. Peterson has more than thirty years’ experience as a curator, critic, artist, and arts administrator in the Philadelphia area. The Gerry and Marguerite Lenfest Chief Curator at the James A. Michener Art Museum, he was the editor and principal author of the major Michener publication Pennsylvania Impressionism as well as monographs on painters William L. Lathrop, Robert Spencer, and Charles Rosen. His critical writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, American Arts Quarterly, Photo Review, and Philadelphia Inquirer.

As a practicing artist, Peterson has had more than thirty solo exhibitions of his photographs since 1980. His work is in the collections of the Amon Carter Museum, Denver Art Museum, Library of Congress, Milwaukee Art Museum, New Orleans Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

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A wry, thought-provoking memoir about art, spirituality, family, loss, and love
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“The Smile at the Heart of Things is a luminous

book. It’s open, quirky, vulnerable, wise. It rings true.”

—Dennis Lee, poet and essayist; poet laureate of Toronto, 2001–2004

“Peterson has an incredible way of encapsulating

his life experience in powerful and imaginative prose (tinged with a kind of poetry). At times I feel an almost Proustian sense of ‘lost time.’”

—George Crumb, Pulitzer Prize–winning composer

“The Smile at the Heart of Things is a very

personal and touching book that is deeply and heart-searchingly important. The stories from life are a true treasure.”

—Emmet Gowin, distinguished American photographer, Professor of Photography, Princeton University

“In a day, I devoured Brian Peterson’s lovely

memoir on art and artists, life, love and marriage, work, museums, human strength, habits-of-mind, diminishment and death. Now nothing in the house is worth reading or watching or even doing, so ardent and tender and enduring are his stories.”

—Mary E. Case, founding director, Qm2; former director, Office of the Registrar, Smithsonian Institution