{"id":30723,"date":"1999-01-27T12:27:26","date_gmt":"1999-01-27T16:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=30723"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:33:58","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:33:58","slug":"philip-isaacson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/1999\/01\/27\/philip-isaacson\/","title":{"rendered":"Isaacson to to discuss &quot;Writing about Architecture&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attorney, art critic, essayist and  children&#8217;s book author Philip Isaacson &#8217;47 will discuss <em>Writing about  Architecture<\/em> at Bates College Feb. 7 at 3 p.m. in the Special  Collections Room of Ladd Library. The public is invited to attend the  Readings with Bates Authors presentation free of charge.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Isaacson&#8217;s interest in reaching out to  children, combined with his ability as a photographer, earned him a Horn  Book award for his acclaimed work, <em>Round Buildings, Square Buildings  &amp; Buildings That Wiggle Like a Fish<\/em>, a study of the aesthetics of  architecture for young readers. He has also written on the aesthetics of  art, including <em>A Short Walk Around the Pyramids and Through the World  of Art<\/em>. Isaacson is a frequent lecturer, contributor of essays, and a  book reviewer on a variety of art-related subjects.<\/p>\n<p>As an attorney and advocate for the arts, Isaacson has  been actively engaged in the practice of law in Lewiston since 1950. He  is currently senior partner in the firm of Isaacson &amp; Raymond. His  legal career has included roles as president of the Androscoggin County  Bar Association, corporation counsel for the City of Lewiston and  assistant county attorney for Androscoggin County.<\/p>\n<p>Isaacson earned his bachelor&#8217;s degree from Bates College  in 1947 and his law degree from Harvard. Known as &#8220;the dean of Maine  art critics,&#8221; he has reviewed for the Maine Sunday Telegram since 1966.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorney, art critic, essayist and children&#8217;s book author Philip Isaacson will discuss Writing about Architecture  at Bates College Feb. 7 at 3 p.m. in the Special Collections Room of Ladd Library. The public is invited to attend the Readings with Bates Authors presentation free of charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[7,11010,39],"tags":[1047,6135,6889,7347,9087,9365],"class_list":["post-30723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-arts","category-event-highlights","tag-architecture","tag-music-tag","tag-performing-and-visual-arts","tag-readings-with-bates-authors-series","tag-visual-arts","tag-writing2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92446,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30723\/revisions\/92446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}