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The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination (1992)

by Daniel Boorstin, Daniel J. Boorstin

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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.… (more)
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I was surprised by how much the beginning is about religion. It starts with going over what different religions teach about how things came to be in existence. You definitively want the illustrated copy. ( )
  nx74defiant | Nov 13, 2023 |
Naše predstave o svetu u kome živimo i koje smo često skloni da bez rezerve prihvatimo, imaju svoju dugu i neretko burnu predistoriju. Zbog čega je taj svet kakav jeste, koji su to stavovi, dogme, izumi, otkrića, koje su istine ili zablude učinile da on za nas poprimi upravo onakav oblik, i da ga upravo na ovakav način opažamo i shvatamo, pitanja su na koja Borstinova knjiga pokušava najpre da nas navede, a zatim i da nam ponudi odgovore.
Uz živopisnu pozadinu koju čine biografije istraživača iz različitih epoha, upoznajemo se ne samo sa velikim i važnim otkrićima, već i sa tim kako je do njih došlo. Imena Kolumba, Balboe, Magelana i Kuka, Paracelzusa, Galena, Verzalija i Harvija nisu samo simboli za najznačajnija otkrića u istoriji sveta; oni na stranicama Borstinove knjige oživljavaju sa svim svojim vrlinama ali i manama, težnjama i strepnjama zbog kojih zauvek ostaju to što jesu.
  vanjus | Jun 12, 2023 |
various forms creative energies have taken in human history
  ritaer | Jun 13, 2021 |
Could never get into this one, despite how I loved the Discoverers.
  wickenden | Mar 8, 2021 |
Much drier than his Discoverers for the most part. You can't do a book like this without illustrations. It needed full color photographs, CDs of music and readings of great works. It was a class without the teacher, students and illustrations necessary to bring it to life. ( )
  AliceAnna | Oct 19, 2014 |
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And, as imagination bodies forth,
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing 
A local habitation and a name.

--Shakespeare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream, V, I"
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The Hindus have left an eloquent history of their efforts to answer the riddle of Creation.
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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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