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It is a saga of Heroes of the Imagination, creators who have brought something new into the arts - Homer, Joyce, Giotto, Picasso, Leonardo, Handel, Wagner - from the dazzling vision of the Hindus to the indifference of Confucius and the silence of Buddha to Herman Melville, Kakfka, Ruskin and a host of others. A magisterial work that finds order in the 'random flexings of the imagination' and reveals 'how the new adds to the old and how the old enriches the new, how Picasso enhances Leonardo and how Homer illuminates Joyce'. 'There are few writers who could tackle so vast a subject with as much verve or self-assurance or infectious enthusiasm as Boorstin...He combines lively opinion and a distinguished historian's erudition, with a first-class journalist's clarity and an eye for the revealing anecdote...irresistible.' USA Today
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In this hugely accomplished work, a companion volume to his monumental bestseller, the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Discoverers, Daniel Boorstin produces a panoramic yet minutely detailed history of the arts.
About the Author
Daniel J Boorstin was born in 1914 and educated at Harvard, Yale, and Oxford. He is Librarian of Congress Emeritus, having directed the US national library from 1979-1987. He had previously been Director of the National Museum for History and Technology and of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC. He taught at the University of Chicago for twenty-five years.
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- PublisherW&N
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 1842122290
- ISBN 13 9781842122297
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages832
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