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A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Past by Lewis Hyde
$40.00 NZD
Category: Psychology
"One of our true superstars of nonfiction" (David Foster Wallace), Lewis Hyde offers a playful and inspiring defense of forgetfulness by exploring the healing effect it can have on the human psyche. We live in a culture that prizes memory--how much we can store, the quality of what's preserved, how we ...Show more
A Primer for Forgetting - Getting Past the Past by Lewis Hyde
$27.99 NZD
Category: Self-help
"One of our true superstars of nonfiction" (David Foster Wallace), Lewis Hyde offers a playful and inspiring defense of forgetfulness by exploring the healing effect it can have on the human psyche. We live in a culture that prizes memory--how much we can store, the quality of what's preserved, how we ...Show more
Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership by Lewis Hyde
$60.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
"Common As Air" offers a stirring defense of our cultural commons, that vast store of art and ideas we have inherited from the past and continue to enrich in the present. Suspicious of the current idea that all creative work is 'intellectual property', Lewis Hyde turns to America's Founding Fathers - me ...Show more
Disappearing Ox by Lewis Hyde (Translator); Max Gimblett (Illustrator)
$60.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
MacArthur Fellow Lewis Hyde and painter Max Gimblett collaborate to create a modern American version of the twelfth-century Chinese "Oxherding Series." As Lewis Hyde writes, "There are ten drawings, the first of which shows a young herder who has lost the ox he is supposed to be tending. In subsequent i ...Show more
The Gift: How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World by Lewis Hyde
$24.99 NZD
Category: Art & Design | Series: Canons
The Gift brilliantly argues for the importance of creativity in our increasingly money-driven society. Reaching deep into literature, anthropology and psychology Lewis Hyde's modern masterpiece has at its heart the simple and important idea that a 'gift' can inspire and change our lives.
Trickster Makes This World : How disruptive imagination creates culture by Lewis Hyde
$29.99 NZD
Category: Society & Culture
Art is a lie that tells the truth. - Pablo Picasso. Picasso disrupted the world around him, and in doing so he reshaped it. That is the Trickster spirit. Playful, mischievous, subversive, and amoral. Tricksters are a great bother to have around, but paradoxically they are also indispensable heroes of c ...Show more
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