“The Blossoming of the World” by Brian H. Peterson is now available for purchase
“Suddenly I was no longer looking at the mountains, the sky. I was looking at Love, embodied in the stuff of the world. Love was flowing out from every atom of creation. Love was everywhere, in everything. In me. But not contained, not limited to me, not limited in any way, just flowing, singing, vibrating, dancing, everywhere, in everything.”
– an excerpt from the book
Author Reputation Press is honored to publish “The Blossoming of the World” by Brian H. Peterson. The book is now live and can be purchased in online bookstores, particularly at the ARP bookstore.
The author, Brian H. Peterson, has more than forty years of experience as a curator, critic, visual artist, musician, and arts administrator. His photographs are in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Amon Carter Museum, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and the Denver Art Museum, among others. As the Gerry and Marguerite Lenfest Chief Curator at the Michener Art Museum (1990–2013), he managed the exhibition program, curated historic and contemporary exhibitions, and was the editor and principal author of the landmark publication Pennsylvania Impressionism (2002).
The author of two prior collections of essays—The Smile at the Heart of Things (2009) and The Blossoming of the World (2011)—Peterson has contributed critical writing to the Los Angeles Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, American Arts Quarterly, and the Photo Review.
In retirement, he took up videography while continuing his work as a writer and photographer. His 1981 song cycle “Moon Songs,” based on the poetry of E. E. Cummings, was featured on the CD Modern American Art Song (2015) with mezzo-soprano Sharon Mabry. His most recent publication is I Give My Eyes, a spiritual autobiography and a story of healing and salvation.
“The Blossoming of the World” by Brian H. Peterson, author of the critically acclaimed The Smile at the Heart of Things, picks up both pen and camera and journeys to the deep end of life. Along the way, he confronts some painful contradictions—beauty and violence, love and grief—and reflects on illness, family, death, dreams, epiphanies, and the birth of self-awareness.
More storyteller than a philosopher, Peterson struggles to reconcile his Christian faith with his love of science, creativity, and spirituality in all its manifestations. Through word and image, he quietly looks for—and finds—the common ground that unites thinking and compassionate people of all shapes and sizes.
This beautiful book contains reproductions of Peterson’s photographs, which accompany and enrich his collection of essays and reflections.
“The Blossoming of the World” by Brian H. Peterson is now available for purchase on ARP Bookstore: https://authorreputationpress.com/bookstore/the-blossoming-of-the-world-essays-and-images/.