Common As Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership

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A stirring defense of our cultural commons, that vast store of art and ideas from the past that continues to enrich our present, revealing an inspiring vision of how to reclaim the commonwealth of art and ideas that we were meant to inherit.“Lewis Hyde’s Common As Air [is] an eloquent and erudite plea for protecting our cultural patrimony from appropriation by commercial interests ... ” —The New York Times Book Review