Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art

Categories: Arts & Photography, Religion & Spirituality

Lewis Hyde examines the trickster figure across world mythology, from Hermes and Coyote to Eshu and Monkey, as a boundary-crosser who disrupts established categories. He argues that this disruptive imagination is essential to culture, and traces trickster's spirit in modern artists and thinkers such as Picasso, Frederick Douglass and John Cage.