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“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 sculpted prose.” —Jonathan Lethem“A manifesto of sorts for anyone who makes art [and] cares for it.” —Zadie Smith“This long-awaited new edition of Lewis Hyde's groundbreaking and influential study of creativity is a cause for across-the-board celebration.” —Geoff Dyer
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About the Author
Lewis Hyde was born in Boston in 1945 and studied at both Minnesota and Iowa universities. His hugely acclaimed essay, "Alcohol and Poetry: John Berryman and the Booze Talking," in part sprang out of his experiences as an alcoholism counselor, but he is also a highly regarded poet in his own right whose poetry and essays have been widely published. He is a MacArthur Fellow, a former director of creative writing at Harvard and, alongside The Gift, he is the author of the equally acclaimed Trickster Makes This World. He lives in Ohio, where he is completing a third book.
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Product details
Paperback: 464 pages
Publisher: Vintage; 25th Anniversary edition (December 4, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780307279507
ISBN-13: 978-0307279507
ASIN: 0307279502
Product Dimensions:
5.2 x 1 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.1 out of 5 stars
75 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#21,249 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Lewis Hyde's latest version of "The Gift" is clearly a Masterpiece for human beings trapped and hypnotized by the modern world of commerce. It historically traces the differences between Commerce & Gift giving. It is not what we ordinary folks expect. Full of surprises and a must for any writer of fiction. It reveals the mystery of accessing the Creative Spirit within us all.
Deserves a constellation of stars. I have read this book many times, and just recently read it again, and it is even better than I remembered. There is now an entire literature on the relationship between a gift economy and a market economy, spawned in part by work of Jacques Derrida and others in the higher reaches of theology (e.g. the grace of God as a gift). But this book was in there first, is still better to my mind, full of sudden insight, easy to read, beautifully written, life changing. The amusing thing is that the author is under the impression that it is about artists: that is a tiny fraction of its insight -- it is really an attack on the entire world view in which we operate, and opens up whole ranges of spiritual understanding. A well run society would send a free gift copy to everyone.
This book is a heavily laden, academic, text that has very little to do with the creative process and more to do with the intellectual aptitude of the author. This book is rather an expose on the meanderings and idealizations of academic thought rather than a narrative on creativity and the product of those efforts.
This is the classic book taking a look at the history, tradition types, and deeper meaning behind the act of gifting. It is a great asset to creative people looking to get in touch with a deeper sense of meaning when it comes to presenting their work to their audience, strangers, people of importance and people close to them.The book was hard to read for me because even though it is an important work, it spoke of a subject I was entirely unfamiliar with, and as I reread it, I realized a whole bunch of us are unfamiliar with a great and almost lost aspect of culture going back thousands of years. Of course, not everybody looks at things as philosophically and culturally as I do, so read that into my review.Nonetheless, if you are a creator, or a culture fan, reading this will give you an amazing backdrop into the purpose, pleasure and reciprocation aspects of giving art, giving your gift of talent, and puts you in touch with how we all should be giving more, of all kinds of things to preserve the best parts of being human.Reviewingly yours,Arthur HermansenThe Lone Comic
"It is an assumption of this book that art is a gift, not a commodity."Hyde opens his treatise on the nature of Art as a gift with anthropological studies of gift exchange coupled with folklore. The diverse sources provide an excellent depiction of the two economies in which the artist (and her art) must participate. One economy is the visible, capitalistic one of which we are all aware in a daily, accounting-ledger way. This is the economy of commerce, and Hyde traces the origins of capitalistic wealth and usury, plumbing the disconnect between the "evergreen value" of art and the banal "exhaustible" value of capitalistic wealth. In opposition is the second economy, that of the gift. The gift economy is spiritual in nature, and the primary difference between it and commercial economy is that grasping at or hoarding a gift destroys the gift economy. The gift must move to participate in the economy, and many of the folktales illustrate that treating a gift as a commodity results in loss, sorrow, or even death.Perhaps understanding how opposed such an economy is to our (Western) way of coalescing and amassing fortunes, Hyde provides a modern day example of the gift economy: Alcoholics Anonymous. In AA, the newcomer is taught that to keep the gift of sobriety, she must someday pass the gift of her hope, strength and experience to someone else. Like the gifts in the various anthropological studies, the value of the AA teachings are in the sharing of them, to wit the AA saying, "You have to give it away to keep it." In terms of an artist and her art, however, issues become blurry because there is the persistent need of the artist to clothe, feed, and shelter herself. If art is to be her living, how can she avoid killing the divinity of the gift and still traffic in it as a commodity? Hyde proposes that the artist must split herself into two modes of interacting with the different economies. Whitman and Ezra Pound are presented as cases studies of (somewhat) modern artists encountering the modern world impinging on their gifts. Whitman, it seems, stayed truer to his gift whereas some unnamed disappointment led Pound to pervert his gift into a hateful ideology. Hyde's point here is that the artist, much like the ill-fated daughters of the opening folktale, will be damaged if he does not find a way to be true to his gift - despite all societal pressure to the contrary. A lost artist is one who cannot fulfill the gift by giving their art away, or who twist their art to some other purpose . This doesn't mean an artist must never accept money for her work, but that she must maintain the purity of her pursuit of producing and sharing the gift separate from her pursuit of money.How to do this, how to create and earn a living without subverting the nature of the gift? Hyde doesn't answer the question of how to preserve the gift in the modern world. Instead, he illustrates why it is imperiled by modern commerce. The epilog describes some common solutions for artists, including a long section on the rise and fall of American patronage (hint: it owes much to the Cold War). This section is the only place where the book, which was originally published in 1983, shows its age by failing to address the mechanism of crowdfunding. The employ of an agent is another common solution to the problem of working in two economies; the agent handles the commerce economy, thus freeing the artist to remain exclusively in the realm of the gift. The vast majority of modern artists, though, have solved the problem of money by having a "second job." As a writer myself, I love that Hyde puts the emphasis on the secondary nature of doing anything that is not a direct effort towards my gift and craft. THE GIFT: CREATIVITY AND THE ARTIST IN THE MODERN WORLD is a thought-provoking read for those who seek an understanding of the unseen forces that can cultivate or kill an artist's gift.
I liked the book overall and there were many good points established by the author regarding the overall concept of the artist producing their works as gifts instead of material commodities. Many thorough examples of the applications of the author's thematic approach and also highlights how artists in the past have led parallel lives along the same concept that the author tries to invoke. Although, there are a few points in the book which I struggled with understanding or perhaps have a difference of opinion regarding the views of the author I feel in summation that the book has changed my opinions on the way artistic works are produced and how they should be viewed by a society driven by material wealth and conspicuous consumption.
Beautifully written, thought-provoking history of humankind's struggle with culture, possessions, commerce, through the annals of religion, societal mores, and how it applies to all of our lives, especially the arts. A different way of seeing our 'gifts' of talent, as well as how we deal with others in business. I would love for this book to be required reading for all MBA's!
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