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David Byrne - Sleeping Beauties, Inbunden

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Sleeping Beauties

Why Good Ideas Go Dormant and How They Wake Up

Av David Byrne

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An Instant New York Times Bestseller'A captivating quest to understand how we come to remember forgotten ideas, inventions and technologies . . . Sleeping Beauties belongs on the bookshelf of anyone who cares about creativity or culture' -Adam Grant, New York TimesA 'Sleeping Beauty' is a brilliant idea that is ahead of its time. So many breakthroughs in arts or science were like this, lost on their initial audience and only later revived and acknowledged to be great. This book asks, why do some ideas fall asleep? And how do they wake up?We love to believe in a meritocracy of ideas - that greatness is always recognised, innovation always seized upon and rewarded. Yet so many of the people we now recognise as the world's great creators initially got little traction for their work. It was only later, often much later, that their work came roaring back to life and made a lasting impact.Discoveries as diverse as dark matter to continental drift, technologies from solar panels to the steam engine, artists from Brueghel to Vermeer to Melville all created 'sleeping beauties'. Ranging across many centuries and the full scope of human endeavour, David Byrne explores their stories and gives us a lens for identifying future breakthroughs.Humbling yet hopeful, these stories celebrate the courage to try new things and the wisdom to embrace them.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2026-10-08
  • Mått: 239 x 35 x 159 mm
  • Vikt: 595 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 400
  • Förlag: Canongate Books
  • ISBN: 9781805300540
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David Byrne is a musician, performer, writer, and multidisciplinary artist who has captivated audiences since 1975, when he co-founded Talking Heads. Over the course of his career he has released more than 20 studio albums, scored films - most notably The Last Emperor, for which he received Academy Award, Golden Globe, and Grammy wins - and brought his singular vision to the stage, from the Broadway production American Utopia, which received a Special Tony Award and was adapted into a film directed by Spike Lee, to Here Lies Love, his disco musical that received four Tony Award nominations including Best Original Score, to Theater of the Mind, an immersive theatrical journey co-created with writer Mala Gaonkar. His visual art - including photography and installation works - has been exhibited internationally, and he is the founder of Reasons to Be Cheerful, an online publication devoted to solutions-based journalism. Byrne has published multiple books, including Bicycle Diaries, How Music Works, and Arboretum.@DBtodomundo | @davidbyrneofficial

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Byrne guides us on a captivating quest to understand how we come to remember forgotten ideas, inventions and technologies. With striking dexterity and range, he explores how advocates reawakened Bach's compositions and Vermeer's paintings after one and two centuries of slumber; how technological advances rekindled theories of continental drift and black holes; how accidents resuscitated hand-washing and genetics; and how war renewed interest in the submarine and The Great Gatsby . . . He is acutely aware that there is no surefire formula for making ideas last or bringing them back to life. What he presents is far more valuable: a deeply researched, stimulating inspection of how the marketplace of ideas shifts, and what steps we can take to shift it. Sleeping Beauties belongs on the bookshelf of anyone who cares about creativity or culture

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