Creation: Artists, Gods, & Origins

by Peter Conrad

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0500513562
• ISBN13: 9780500513569
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 3.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 7.1" x 9.4"