The CreatorsRandom House, 1992 - 811 Seiten In this engrossing companion to his bestselling The Discoverers, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Daniel J. Boorstin brings to life more that three thousand years of achievement in the arts. The Discoverers, which has been translated into twenty languages, gave us an epic of the quest to understand the world, from the heavens to the human heart. Now Boorstin puts flesh on the great figures who have created our cultural heritage, from the pyramid builders to Picasso, enriching our world with architectures, painting, sculpture, music, drama, dance, and literature. This is a surprising story from the very beginning. The ancient Hindus and the Buddhists were untroubled by the mystery of Creation. So, too, the Chinese saw history as a series of cycles without beginning or end. And Islam found the very notion of Creation unappealing. But our Judeo-Christian tradition--Moses and Saint Augustine among others--gave us a prophetic vision of Man the Creator in the image of a Creator-God. In this suspenseful narrative brimming with lively biographical incident, we see Dante, Chaucer, Rabelais, Cervantes, Shakespeare, and other great creators deftly placed in the unique circumstances of their times. For Boccaccio the plague offered a challenge to entertain with a hundred still-remembered tales. Brunelleschi designed the elegant dome of the cathedral in Florence to save his proud city the disgrace of an unfinished monument. And Michelangelo's commission to paint the curved, lunetted ceiling of the Sistine Chapel arose from his rivals' efforts to discredit an inexperienced painter with an impossible task. We see, too, how the challenge to Walt Whitman, Frank Lloyd Wright, Isadora Duncan, and others grew out of the experience of their age. Nor were the creators daunted by any obstacle--not the blindness of Milton, the impaired vision of a Prescott, Parkman, or Joyce, the deafness of a Beethoven, the asthma of a bedridden Proust, the dreariness of T. S. Eliot's life as a bank clerk, nor the confinement of female roles that made Virginia Woolf a unique explorer of the self. The familiar names become living heroes of the imagination as Boorstin captures their efforts to re-create the world in a composite Human Comedy--fashioned from the absurdities of Rabelais, the illusions of Don Quixote, Gibbon's view of ancient empires, Balzac's novels of love and money, Dickens's popular sagas of struggle and triumph. We see Western painting move from the craft tradition to the intuitions of Giotto, the science-enriched visions of Leonardo, the personal painted moments of Monet, and the ruthless visions of Picasso. Western music, once a domain of Gregorian chant, becomes the secular world of Haydn aiming to please his prince, which widens into the public-concert communities of Mozart and Beethoven, and the nation-shaping operas of Verdi and Wagner. Boorstin brings us to the modern climax--creating the self and probing the Wilderness Within, in Montaigne, Rousseau, and the tantalizing works of Melville, Dostoyevsky, and Kafka. Wonderful wide-ranging portraits inspire us with awe for the unpredictable artist--the Goethe, the Coleridge, the Sergei Eisenstein, the Martha Graham, the Stravinsky. The creators is epic history. It is also a mystery story of the restless, questing human spirit, written with all the excitement and authority Daniel J. Boorstin brought to The Discoverers. |
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... tion . For the poet mere imitation ( mimesis ) was not enough . Writing before any of Shakespeare's plays had appeared , while still defending the Aris- totelian unities , he deplored the poor products on the London stage . We do not ...
... tion . For the poet mere imitation ( mimesis ) was not enough . Writing before any of Shakespeare's plays had appeared , while still defending the Aris- totelian unities , he deplored the poor products on the London stage . We do not ...
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... tion for his lifework would not come from " cool investigation " but from lone intimate experience . " It was at Rome , on the 15th of October , 1764 , as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol , while the barefooted friars were ...
... tion for his lifework would not come from " cool investigation " but from lone intimate experience . " It was at Rome , on the 15th of October , 1764 , as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol , while the barefooted friars were ...
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... tion composing for Diaghilev . The next season he produced another Stravinsky ballet , Petrouchka ( 1911 ) , with scenery painted by Aleksandr Benois , which developed the Russian folk theme of puppets coming to life in scenes at the ...
... tion composing for Diaghilev . The next season he produced another Stravinsky ballet , Petrouchka ( 1911 ) , with scenery painted by Aleksandr Benois , which developed the Russian folk theme of puppets coming to life in scenes at the ...
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A PROLOGUE PART I WORLDS WITHOUT BEGINNING 1 The Dazzled Vision of the Hindus | 4 |
The Indifference of Confucius | 9 |
The Silence of the Buddha | 19 |
Urheberrecht | |
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Aeschylus ancient architects architecture Aristophanes Aristotle artists Athens beauty became become Beethoven Boccaccio Boethius Buddha building Caliph called celebrated century B.C. Cervantes Chaucer Christ Christian Church classic comedy composed Confucius created creation Creator dance Dante death Dionysus dithyramb divine dome drama earth Egyptian emperor Empire epic eternal Euripides father festival Florence French Gibbon gods Goethe grand Greek Gregorian chant Hadrian heaven Homer human human comedy images Isocrates Japanese Justinian king Koran later Latin literary living man's Michelangelo Milton modern Monet monuments Moses Muslim mystery nature never novel opera painters painting Pantheon Paris Parthenon Petrarch philosophers Plato play poet Polyclitus portraits pozzolana pyramid Rabelais remained Roman Rome Saint sculpture Shakespeare St.-Denis statue stone Stonehenge story style Suger survived symphony talents temple theater tion tomb tradition tragedy Translated Vitruvius Western word worship writing wrote
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