Creation : artists, gods and origins
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Creation : artists, gods and origins
Thames & Hudson, 2007
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Artists, gods and origins
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Throughout history artists, writers and musicians - 'creative' people - have tried to outdo God or the Gods in the acts of creation. This extraordinarily wide-ranging study traces the different concepts of creation in Western civilization, following the struggle between man and god for the right to create, and even the right to create gods. Along the way it becomes what is in essence a new history of Western civilization, a series of thirty-three chapters brimming with ideas, insights and erudition. It touches upon religion, art and artistry, alchemy, mystical traditions, opera, film, literature, linguistics, psychoanalysis, psychology and physics, among many other things, exploring what it means to create, as well as the popular myths of creation from every conceivable angle. The result is a breathtaking overview of man's uncrushable impulse to create, and his endless rivalry with the gods.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Meetings with the Maker
- 2. In the Beginnings
- 3. Out of the Chasm
- 4. Cubing the Egg
- 5. In Verbo
- 6. The Supreme Artisan
- 7. Another God
- 8. The Great Work
- 9. Our Own Unmaking
- 10. Author of Himself
- 11. To Create More Worlds
- 12. Uncreating Words
- 13. Nature Caught in the Act
- 14. Jehovah, Jupiter, Fu and Brahma
- 15. Sky Stories
- 16. Protoplasts
- 17. The God of Steam
- 18. Go Forth and Multiply
- 19. Pangenesis
- 20. New Eve, Old Adam
- 21. Begetter and Bearer
- 22. Deicide
- 23. Out of the Canyon
- 24. The First Artists
- 25. Prime Movers
- 26. Creatures of Prometheus
- 27. God's Finger, Man's Hand
- 28. Let There Be Sound
- 29. Sons of Chaos
- 30. Psychogenesis
- 31. Creating the Creation
- 32. World-Building
- 33. The Bright Destroyer.
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