Name: The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination
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Author: Boorstin, Daniel J.
ISBN: 9780679743750

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The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination

Type

Physical Book

Author

Daniel J. Boorstin

Publisher

Vintage

Year

1993

Language

English

Pages

832

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.4x13.3x4.1 cm

Weight

0.78 kg.

ISBN

0679743758

ISBN13

9780679743750

Synopsis "The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination "

By piecing the lives of selected individuals into a grand mosaic, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Daniel J. Boorstin explores the development of artistic innovation over 3,000 years. A hugely ambitious chronicle of the arts that Boorstin delivers with the scope that made his Discoverers a national bestseller. Even as he tells the stories of such individual creators as Homer, Joyce, Giotto, Picasso, Handel, Wagner, and Virginia Woolf, Boorstin assembles them into a grand mosaic of aesthetic and intellectual invention. In the process he tells us not only how great art (and great architecture and philosophy) is created, but where it comes from and how it has shaped and mirrored societies from Vedic India to the twentieth-century United States.