The Creators
by BOORSTIN, DANIEL J.Edition: Reprint
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Pub. Date: 1993-09-28
Publisher(s): Vintage
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Summary
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.
Author Biography
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 to literature. He was the director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, and for twelve years served as the Librarian of Congress. He died in 2004.
Table of Contents
| A Personal Note to the Reader | |
| The Riddle of Creation: A Prologue | |
| Worlds Without Beginning | |
| The Dazzled vision of the Hindus | p. 4 |
| The Indifference of Confucius | p. 9 |
| The Silence of the Buddha | p. 59 |
| The Homeric Scriptures of the Greeks | p. 26 |
| A Creator-God | |
| The Intimate God of Moses | p. 38 |
| The Birth of Theology | p. 46 |
| The Innovative God of Saint Augustine | p. 55 |
| The Uncreated Koran | p. 63 |
| Book One: Creator Man | |
| The Power of Stone | |
| The Mystery of Megaliths | p. 74 |
| Castles of Eternity | p. 79 |
| Temples of Commnunity | p. 90 |
| Orders for Survival | p. 101 |
| Artificial Stone: A Roman Revolution | p. 107 |
| Dome of the World | p. 118 |
| The Great Church | p. 127 |
| A Road Not Taken: The Japanese Triumph of Wood | p. 136 |
| The Magic of Images | |
| The Awe of Images | p. 148 |
| Human Hieroglyphs | p. 153 |
| The Athletic Ideal | p. 164 |
| For Family, Empire - and History | p. 175 |
| The Healing Image | p. 183 |
| "Satan's Handiwork" | p. 193 |
| The Immortal Word | |
| Dionysus the Twice-Born | p. 202 |
| The Birth of the Spectator: From Ritual to Drama | p. 206 |
| The Mirror of Comedy | p. 214 |
| The Arts of Prose and Persuasion | p. 220 |
| Book Two: Re-Creating the World | |
| Otherworldly Elements | |
| The Consoling Past | p. 234 |
| The Music of the Word | p. 238 |
| An Architecture of Light | p. 246 |
| Adventures in Death | p. 255 |
| The Human Comedy: A Composite Work | |
| Escaping the Plague | p. 266 |
| Joys of Pilgrimage | p. 276 |
| "In the Land of Booze and Bibbers" | p. 288 |
| Adventures in Madness | p. 298 |
| The Spectator Reborn | p. 308 |
| The Freedom to Choose | p. 320 |
| Sagas of Ancient Empire | p. 333 |
| New-World Epics | p. 342 |
| A Mosaic of Novels | p. 353 |
| In Love with the Public | p. 364 |
| From Craftsman to Artist | |
| Archetypes Brought to Life | p. 380 |
| Roman Afterlives | p. 384 |
| The Mysteries of Light: From a Walk to a Window | p. 391 |
| Sovereign of the Visible World | p. 398 |
| "Divine Michelangelo" | p. 407 |
| The Painted Word: The Inward Path of Tao | p. 419 |
| Composing for the Community | |
| A Protestant Music | p. 428 |
| The Music of Instruments: From Court to Concert | p. 439 |
| New Worlds for the Orchestra | p. 452 |
| The Music of Risorgimento | p. 465 |
| A Germanic Union of the Arts | p. 476 |
| The Ephemeral Art of the Dance | p. 486 |
| The Music of Innovation | p. 500 |
| Conjuring With Time and Space | |
| The Painted Moment | p. 512 |
| The Power of Light: "The Pencil of Nature" | p. 524 |
| The Rise of the Skyscraper | p. 536 |
| Book Three: Creating the Self | |
| The Vanguard Word | |
| Inventing the Essay | p. 556 |
| The Art of Being Truthful: Confessions | p. 567 |
| The Arts of Seeming Truthful: Autobiography | p. 577 |
| Intimate Biography | p. 585 |
| The Heroic Self | p. 598 |
| Songs of the Self | p. 613 |
| In a Dry Season | p. 628 |
| The Wilderness Within | |
| An American at Sea | p. 642 |
| Sagas of the Russian Soul | p. 658 |
| Journey to the Interior | p. 672 |
| The Garden of Involuntary Memory | p. 684 |
| The Filigreed Self | p. 697 |
| "I Too Am Here!" | p. 715 |
| Vistas from a Restless Self | p. 727 |
| Epilogue: Mysteries of a Public Art | p. 739 |
| Some Reference Notes | p. 751 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 779 |
| Index | p. 783 |
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