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. Even as he tells the stories of such individual creators as Homer; Joyce; Giotto; Picasso; Handel; Wagner; and Virginia Woolf; Boorstin assembles them into a grand mosaic of aesthetic and intellectual invention. In the process he tells us not only how great art (and great architecture and philosophy) is created; but where it comes from and how it has shaped and mirrored societies from Vedic India to the twentieth-century United States.
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