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Author Conrad, Peter, 1948-

Title Creation : artists, gods and origins / Peter Conrad
Published London : Thames & Hudson, 2007

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 MELB  700.1 Con/Cag  AVAILABLE
Description 592 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents 0. Something from Nothing -- 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. Children of Chaos -- 30. Psychogenesis -- 31. Creating the Creation -- 32. World-Building -- 33. The Bright Destroyer
Notes Includes index
Subject Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) -- History.
Religion and culture.
Civilization, Western.
LC no. 013767174
ISBN 9780500513569 hardback
0500513562 hardback