The gift: Imagination and the erotic life of property - Hardcover

Hyde, Lewis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394523016 ISBN 13: 9780394523019

Publisher: Random House, 1983

Synopsis

Starting with the premise that the work of art is a gift and not a commodity, this revolutionary book ranges across anthropology, literature, economics, and psychology to show how the 'commerce of the creative spirit' functions in the lives of artists and in culture as a whole.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

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

About the Author:

Lewis Hyde was born in Boston in 1945 and studied at both Minnesota and Iowa universities. His hugely acclaimed essay, "Alcohol and Poetry: John Berryman and the Booze Talking," in part sprang out of his experiences as an alcoholism counselor, but he is also a highly regarded poet in his own right whose poetry and essays have been widely published. He is a MacArthur Fellow, a former director of creative writing at Harvard and, alongside The Gift, he is the author of the equally acclaimed Trickster Makes This World. He lives in Ohio, where he is completing a third book.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0394523016
• ISBN 13: 9780394523019
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 328