The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World

Blurb

The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property is a 1983 book by Lewis Hyde in which he examines the importance of gifts, their flow and movement and the impact that the modern market place has had on the circulation of gifts.
Part of part I, "A Theory of Gifts", was originally published as "The Gift Must Always Move" in Co-Evolution Quarterly No. 35 in fall 1982.
The book was re-published with the alternate subtitle: "Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World" in 2007.