Dimensions
137 x 215 x 52mm
A History of Heroes of the Imagination.
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.
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, Kafka, 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".
