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The transformation of this world depends upon you
- Title
- The transformation of this world depends upon you / Wendy Ewald, Thomas Keenan, Martha Saxton, Fazal Sheikh.
- Author
- Ewald, Wendy.
- Publication
- Göttingen, Germany : Steidl, 2014.
- ©2014
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | MFW 16-4206 | Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300 |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 237 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits; 25 cm
- Summary
- "[This book] is the third in a series of three collaborative art projects hosted by Amherst College in which an artist is invited to work with students to explore the relationship between the college and the local community and to produce artworks that bring the two communities closer together ... [it] grew out of Fazal Sheikh's collaboration with the students and with members of the wider Springfield community ..."--Editorial note, page 233. "[We] wanted to ... make the connection between Amherst's history in the world and an immigrant community in our midst."--Foreword, page 10.
- Alternative Title
- Voices from Amherst and beyond
- Subject
- Amherst College > Alumni and alumnae > Biography
- Amherst College
- Missionaries > Biography
- Immigrants > Massachusetts > Portraits
- Urban poor > Massachusetts > Springfield
- Portrait photography
- Community arts projects > Massachusetts > Amherst
- Community arts projects
- Immigrants
- Missionaries
- Universities and colleges > Alumni and alumnae
- Urban poor
- Massachusetts
- Massachusetts > Amherst
- Massachusetts > Springfield
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- Portraits.
- Contents
- Foreword / Wendy Ewald -- Introduction: Against all assumed authority: human rights, civic engagement, and the missionary tradition / Thomas Keenan -- Part one, The Missionaries: Setting out ; Reuben Tinker: Doing good and doing well ; Justin Perkins: False prophets ; Henry Lyman: The highest reward ; Henry Van Lennep: The artist ; Elijah Bridgman: A stranger in China ; Shimeta Neesima: Stowaway ; Kanzo Uchimura: Christians without a church ; The Ward family: missionaries of the future / Martha Saxton -- Part two, Voices from the Amherst and Springfield communities: Arline Wright ; Carmen Rodriguez ; Christine Wells ; Jafet Robles ; Rona Thompson ; Luis Manuel Perez ; Margarita Albelo ; Parvin Niroomand ; Paul Vasconcellos ; Sellou Diate / Fazal Sheikh -- Appendix: A problem shared: working with the Amherst community / Molly Mead.
- Call Number
- MFW 16-4206
- ISBN
- 9783869307800
- 3869307803
- OCLC
- 890395469
- Author
- Ewald, Wendy.
- Title
- The transformation of this world depends upon you / Wendy Ewald, Thomas Keenan, Martha Saxton, Fazal Sheikh.
- Publisher
- Göttingen, Germany : Steidl, 2014.
- Copyright Date
- ©2014
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Added Author
- Keenan, Thomas, 1959-Saxton, Martha.Sheikh, Fazal, 1965-
- Note
- Half-title: Voices from Amherst and beyond
- Research Call Number
- MFW 16-4206