Russian Artistic Modernism and the West: Collectors, Collections, Exhibitions, and Artists

Romanov Riches: Russian Writers and Artists Under the Tsars

✍ Volkov, Solomon 📂 Fiction 📅 2010 🏛 Knopf 🌐 English ⚖ 1 MB

In a sweeping cultural history of Russia from the rise of the house of Romanov in 1613 to its downfall at the hands of the Bolsheviks in 1917, Solomon Volkov effortlessly unwinds the twisted relationship between art and the royal family. Throughout the Romanov dynasty, Russia’s greatest artists and

The gift: creativity and the artist in t

The gift: creativity and the artist in the modern world

✍ Lewis Hyde 📂 Fiction 📅 2009 🏛 Vintage Books 🌐 en-US ⚖ 354 KB 👁 2 views

Discusses the argument that a work of art is essentially a gift and not a commodity. From the Trade Paperback edition.

The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World

✍ Hyde, Lewis 📂 Fiction 📅 2007 🏛 Random House, Inc. 🌐 English ⚖ 584 KB

SUMMARY: By now a modern classic, The Gift is a brilliantly orchestrated defense of the value of creativity and of its importance in a culture increasingly governed by money and overrun with commodities. Widely available again after twenty-five years, this book is even more necessary today than when

The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World

✍ Hyde, Lewis 📂 Fiction 📅 2007 🏛 Random House, Inc. 🌐 English ⚖ 477 KB

SUMMARY: By now a modern classic, The Gift is a brilliantly orchestrated defense of the value of creativity and of its importance in a culture increasingly governed by money and overrun with commodities. Widely available again after twenty-five years, this book is even more necessary today than when

The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World

✍ Hyde, Lewis 📂 Fiction 📅 2007 🏛 Random House, Inc. 🌐 English ⚖ 478 KB

### Review “The best book I know of for talented but unacknowledged creators. . . . A masterpiece.” —Margaret Atwood “No one who is invested in any kind of art . . . can read _The Gift_ and remain unchanged.” —David Foster Wallace “Few books are such life-changers as _The Gift_ : epiphany, in s

The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World

✍ Hyde, Lewis 📂 Fiction 📅 2007 🏛 Random House, Inc. 🌐 English ⚖ 584 KB

### Review “The best book I know of for talented but unacknowledged creators. . . . A masterpiece.” —Margaret Atwood “No one who is invested in any kind of art . . . can read *The Gift* and remain unchanged.” —David Foster Wallace “Few books are such life-changers as *The Gift*: epiphany, in scul