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The Creators

A History of Heroes of the Imagination

A History of Heroes of the Imagination

By Daniel J. Boorstin

By Daniel J. Boorstin

By Daniel J. Boorstin

By Daniel J. Boorstin

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Paperback $21.00

Sep 28, 1993 | ISBN 9780679743750

Ebook $12.99

Apr 11, 2012 | ISBN 9780307817211

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    About The Creators

    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.

    About The Creators

    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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    About Daniel J. Boorstin

    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… More about Daniel J. Boorstin

    About Daniel J. Boorstin

    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… More about Daniel J. Boorstin

    Product Details

    Category: World History | Art | Philosophy

    Paperback | $21.00
    Published by Vintage
    Sep 28, 1993 | 832 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679743750

    Category: World History | Art | Philosophy

    Ebook | $12.99
    Published by Vintage
    Apr 11, 2012 | 832 Pages | ISBN 9780307817211

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    Praise

    “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

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