The Creators

A History of Heroes of the Imagination

Daniel J. Boorstin

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English

Vintage U S
07 December 1993

History; Social & cultural history

Series: Knowledge Series

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.

By: Daniel J. Boorstin
Imprint: Vintage U S
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 133mm, Spine: 46mm
Weight: 669g
ISBN: 9780679743750
ISBN 10: 0679743758
Series: Knowledge Series
Pages: 811
Publication Date: 07 December 1993
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , A / AS level , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination

The capston to one of the greatest careers in the history of American intellectual endeavor. With The Creators, Boorstin enters the ranks of the 'heroes of the imagination.' -George F. Will A remarkable achievement an a pleasure to read. -The New York Times Book Review There are few writers who could tackle so vast a subject with as much verve or self-assurance or infectious enthusiam as Boorstin. . . . He combines lively opinion a distinguished historian's erudition, with a first-class journalist's clarity and eye for the revealing anecdote . . . irresitible. -USA Today