Gift Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World

Name: Gift Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World
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ISBN: 9780307279507

ISBN-10: 0307279502

ISBN-13: 9780307279507

Edition: 25th

Authors: Lewis Hyde

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Description:

Discusses the argument that a work of art is essentially a gift and not a commodity.

Book details

List price: $17.00
Edition: 25th
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 12/4/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



A Theory of Gifts



Some Food We Could Not Eat



The Bones of the Dead



The Labor of Gratitude



The Bond



The Gift Community



A Female Property



Usury: A History of Gift Exchange



Two Experiments in Gift Aesthetics



The Commerce of the Creative Spirit



A Draft of Whitman



Ezra Pound and the Fate of Vegetable Money


Conclusion


On Being Good Ancestors


Bibliography


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index