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The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780679743750)
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xBy 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.
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
ISBN-10: 0679743758
ISBN-13: 9780679743750
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 09/28/1993
Pages: 832
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.72lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.23w x 1.63d
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/20/1993
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.
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
ISBN-10: 0679743758
ISBN-13: 9780679743750
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 09/28/1993
Pages: 832
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.72lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.23w x 1.63d
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/20/1993
By Daniel J. Boorstin
xDaniel J. Boorstin was the author of The Americans, a trilogy (The Colonial Experience; The National Experience, and The Democratic Experience) that won the Francis Parkman Prize, the Bancroft Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize. In 1989, he received the National Book Award for lifetime contribution to literature. He was the director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, and for twelve years served as the Librarian of Congress. He died in 2004.
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