Hyde traces the role of the Trickster, who appears in the myths of many cultures as Coyote, Hermes, Loki, Eshu, Raven, Krishna, etc. In the modern world, he finds the Trickster in the work of its artists who show society the truth about itself. Among others, he chooses Picasso, John Cage, Allen Ginsberg, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Robert ...
This 25th anniversary edition returns to the seminal argument originally proposed by Hyde that states that a work of art is essentially a gift and not a commodity.
""The Gift" actually deserves the hyperbolic praise that in most blurbs is so empty. It is the sort of book that you remember where you were and even what you were wearing when you first picked it up. The sort that you hector friends about until they read it too. This is not just formulaic blurbspeak; it is the truth. No one who is invested in any ...
Hyde gathers 13 of Thoreau's finest short prose works and, for the first time in 150 years, presents them fully annotated and arranged in the order of their composition. This definitive edition includes Thoreau's most famous essays.
"Art is a lie that tells the truth." - Pablo Picasso. Picasso disrupted the world around him, and in doing so he reshaped it. That is the Trickster spirit. Playful, mischievous, subversive, and amoral. Tricksters are a great bother to have around, but paradoxically they are also indispensable heroes of culture, because our world - with its ...
The 13 essays in this volume include "Walking," "Civil Disobedience," and "Wild Apples," as well as an appreciative and informative introduction by Lewis Hyde.
Hyde traces the role of the Trickster, who appears in the myths of many cultures as Coyote, Hermes, Loki, Eshu, Raven, Krishna, etc. In the modern world, he finds the Trickster in the work of its artists who show society the truth about itself. Among others, he chooses Picasso, John Cage, Allen Ginsberg, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Robert ...
First published in America in 1979, "The Gift" is a modern classic which remarkably has never before been published in Britain. This inspiring examination of the 'gift economy' is even more relevant now than when it originally appeared, a brilliantly argued defence of the place of creativity in our increasingly market-orientated society. ""The ...
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