Creators : from Chaucer and Durer to Picasso and Disney / Paul Johnson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c2006.Edition: 1st edDescription: 310 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0060191430 : HRD
  • 9780060191436
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 700/.92/2
LOC classification:
  • NX160 .J64 2006
Contents:
The anatomy of creative courage -- Chaucer : the man in the fourteenth-century street -- Durer : a strong smell of printer's ink -- Shakespeare : glimpses of an unknown colossus -- J. S. Bach : the genetics of the organ loft -- Turner and Hokusai : apocalypse now and then -- Jane Austen : shall we join the ladies? -- A. W. N. Pugin and Viollet-le-Duc : Goths for all seasons -- Victor Hugo : the genius without a brain -- Mark Twain : how to tell a joke -- Tiffany : through a glass darkly -- T. S. Eliot :the last poet to wear spats -- Balenciaga and Dior : the aesthetics of a buttonhole -- Picasso and Walt Disney : room for nature in a modern world? -- Metaphors in a laboratory.
Summary: Addresses the creative side of genius in a series of portraits of men and women and explores the influence of their work on their lives and on the development of art, literature, fashion, music, and other creative fields in the Western world.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-300) and index.

The anatomy of creative courage -- Chaucer : the man in the fourteenth-century street -- Durer : a strong smell of printer's ink -- Shakespeare : glimpses of an unknown colossus -- J. S. Bach : the genetics of the organ loft -- Turner and Hokusai : apocalypse now and then -- Jane Austen : shall we join the ladies? -- A. W. N. Pugin and Viollet-le-Duc : Goths for all seasons -- Victor Hugo : the genius without a brain -- Mark Twain : how to tell a joke -- Tiffany : through a glass darkly -- T. S. Eliot :the last poet to wear spats -- Balenciaga and Dior : the aesthetics of a buttonhole -- Picasso and Walt Disney : room for nature in a modern world? -- Metaphors in a laboratory.

Addresses the creative side of genius in a series of portraits of men and women and explores the influence of their work on their lives and on the development of art, literature, fashion, music, and other creative fields in the Western world.

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