The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination: 1 (Knowledge Series) - Softcover

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Boorstin, Daniel J.

 
9780679743750: The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination: 1 (Knowledge Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0679743758 ISBN 13: 9780679743750
Verlag: Vintage, 1993

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Daniel 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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he 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.

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Verlag
Vintage
Erscheinungsdatum
1993
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0679743758
ISBN 13 
9780679743750
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
832
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