“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, amoral. Tricksters are a great bother to have around, but paradoxically they are also indispensable heroes of culture, because ourworld – with its complexity and ambiguity, its beauty and its dirt – was trickster's creation, and the work is not yet finished. Authoritative in its scholarship, supple and dynamic in its style, Trickster Makes This World encourages you to think and see afresh. ‘Artists of whatever sort need Trickster’s help from time to time: when you’re blocked or stuck, take an aimless walk and let your mind off its leash, and call on Trickster. He’s the opener of dreams, of roads, and of possibilities.’ — Margaret Atwood
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'Hyde displays his own tricksterish qualities in this absorbing hymn to the disrupter of the status quo.' -- Observer
'Hyde is persuasive and is at his most interesting on contemporary tricksters.' -- Colin Waters, Sunday Herald
'Hyde is persuasive and is at his most interesting on contemporary tricksters.' -- Colin Waters, Sunday Herald
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'Hyde is persuasive and is at his most interesting on contemporary tricksters.'
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No lover of myth, folklore, or the arts should be without it. I can't recommend this book (or The Gift) too highly. Many thanks to Lewis Hyde for these inspiring works.
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I have just finished writing a (slightly gushy) email to Lewis Hyde to tell him how amazing I think he is. As far as this book goes, I have genuinely never read anything better on the subject of Tricksters. I have been looking for this book for a long time without realising it existed.
The author is incredibly intelligent and leads you down paths of logic and exploration that will leave anyone interested in myth/tricksters with their jaw hanging open and a smile on thier face. I love this book. The wisdom and depth of the text is incredible.
I adore tricksters. And I have spent a long time researching them. This is something that has completely changed how I view some of the elements of what it is to be a Trickster.
I can't rave enough.
Fantastic!! Buy it!!
The author is incredibly intelligent and leads you down paths of logic and exploration that will leave anyone interested in myth/tricksters with their jaw hanging open and a smile on thier face. I love this book. The wisdom and depth of the text is incredible.
I adore tricksters. And I have spent a long time researching them. This is something that has completely changed how I view some of the elements of what it is to be a Trickster.
I can't rave enough.
Fantastic!! Buy it!!
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"I can't see you, but I know you're there..." (Peter Falk in Wings of Desire) -- The hero, the martyr, the whore-with-a-heart-of-gold, the earth mother, the domineering father, ad nauseum, all the archetypes of our world, and of the worlds from which we come, have been done to death, and exist as fully realized options, niches in society, possibilities, definite shapes -- trickster is much more amorphous, less obvious, less overtly possible as an option, yet somehow always lurking somewhere nearby, stoking the creative fires and putting thumbtacks on unsuspecting seats. Hyde gives trickster the exegesis and the credit he rightly deserves but seems so often to dodge or come late to. Well worth reading, even if you disagree with Hyde's premise (as so many seem to).
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It's Tricky, Tricky, Tricky
The other review here has a valid point: hyde barely mentions the artists whom he is suggesting are modern tricksters. Read more
Published on 18 April 2011 by D. T. Brunetti
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deluded
the book promised interesting since it apparently delt with the lives of artists. There is barely a mention of the trickster artists. Read more
Published on 12 Oct 2009 by Marc
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Please to read this book!
In the time to take to read this book I come to know the tricksters hook.
Published on 4 Dec 1998
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Will this book cause an outbreak of tricksterism?
After recently reading in a biography of Da Vinci that Michelangelo was a tormented jerk, I discovered this book, a sociology of jerks. I guess he's a trickster too. Read more
Published on 13 April 1998
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