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How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World

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Gift

How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World

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  • 1 Currently reading
  • 3 Have read

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.

Publish Date
Publisher
Canongate Books
Language
English
Pages
384

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Edition Availability
Cover of: Gift
Gift: How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World
2013, Canongate Books
in English
Cover of: The Gift
The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World (Vintage)
December 4, 2007, Vintage
Paperback in English - 25 Anv edition
Cover of: The Gift
The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property
March 4, 1999, Trafalgar Square
Paperback in English - Reissue edition
Cover of: The Gift
The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property
1983, Vintage Books
in English - 1st Vintage Books ed.
Cover of: The Gift
The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property
February 12, 1983, Vintage
in English
Cover of: The gift
The gift: imagination and the erotic life of property
1983, Random House
in English

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Classifications

Library of Congress
GN449.6, GN449.6 .H93 2012

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL28488772M
ISBN 13
9780857868473
LCCN
2013376225

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When the Puritans first landed in Massachusetts, they discovered a thing so curious about the Indians' feelings for property that they felt called upon to give it a name.
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