The Gift - Lewis Hyde
“It is clear that Lewis Hyde is one of the finest essayists of his generation. His subject is the old gift-giving cultures and their relation to the colder commodity societies. This book explains many things about gifts, and their relation to art and community.
The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World
2007年12月4日 · “Few books are such life-changers as The Gift: epiphany, in sculpted prose.” —Jonathan Lethem “A manifesto of sorts for anyone who makes art [and] cares for it.” —Zadie Smith “This long-awaited new edition of Lewis Hyde's groundbreaking and influential study of creativity is a cause for across-the-board celebration.” —Geoff Dyer
The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property - Wikipedia
The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property is a 1983 book by Lewis Hyde, in which the author examines the importance of gifts, their flow and movement and the impact that the modern market place has had on the circulation of gifts. [1]
The Gift: How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World
2019年9月24日 · Drawing on examples from folklore and literature, history and tribal customs, economics and modern copyright law, Lewis Hyde demonstrates how our society—governed by the marketplace—is poorly equipped to determine the worth of artists’ work.
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The Gift of Lewis Hyde’s ‘The Gift’ - The Paris Review
2019年9月16日 · And so it is with Lewis Hyde’s classic study of gift giving and its relationship to art. The Gift has never been out of print; it moves like an underground current among artists of all kinds, through word of mouth and bestowal.
The gift : creativity and the artist in the modern world : Hyde, Lewis ...
2021年5月14日 · Hyde, Lewis, 1945-Publication date 2007 Topics Gifts, Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.), Economic anthropology, Art and society Publisher New York : Vintage Books Collection internetarchivebooks; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language English
The Gift by Lewis Hyde: 9781984897787 - Penguin Random House
Drawing on examples from folklore and literature, history and tribal customs, economics and modern copyright law, Lewis Hyde demonstrates how our society—governed by the marketplace—is poorly equipped to determine the worth of artists’ work.
The Gift by Lewis Hyde - SouthernCrossReview
Through this book, Hyde helps us focus on the importance of gifts, their flow and movement and the impact that the modern market place has had on the circulation of gifts. In the first half of the book, Hyde examines the structure of traditional gift economies.
The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World
2009年7月1日 · Hyde assembles a wide variety of anthropological and sociological evidence demonstrating the reality and internal functionality of gift economies, and provides a sociological theory of "the gift" as a transfer of value that "remains in motion".
The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World Summary
In the first three chapters, “Some Food We Could Not Eat,” “The Bones of the Dead,” and “The Labor of Gratitude” Hyde examines the basic characteristics of the gift by drawing upon cultural anthropology and providing very close readings of certain gift-giving societies throughout history.