Creators : from Chaucer and Durer to Picasso and Disney /
Johnson, Paul, 1928-2023
Creators : from Chaucer and Durer to Picasso and Disney / [print] Paul Johnson. - first Harper Perennial edition. - New York, New York : Harper Perennial, (c)2007. - 310, 18 pages ; 21 cm
Includes bibliographies 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.
The author, in this companion volume to his Creators, examines a host of outstanding and prolific creative spirits. Here are Disney, Picasso, Bach, and Shakespeare; Austen, Twain, and T.S. Eliot; and Durer, Hokusai, Pugin, and Viollet-le-Duc, among many others. Paul Johnson believes that creation cannot be satisfactorily analyzed, but it can be illustrated to bring out its salient characteristics. That is the purpose of this instructive and witty book.
9780060930462
2005050316
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Arts--History.
Artists--Biography.
Biography
NX160.J68.C743 2007
Creators : from Chaucer and Durer to Picasso and Disney / [print] Paul Johnson. - first Harper Perennial edition. - New York, New York : Harper Perennial, (c)2007. - 310, 18 pages ; 21 cm
Includes bibliographies 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.
The author, in this companion volume to his Creators, examines a host of outstanding and prolific creative spirits. Here are Disney, Picasso, Bach, and Shakespeare; Austen, Twain, and T.S. Eliot; and Durer, Hokusai, Pugin, and Viollet-le-Duc, among many others. Paul Johnson believes that creation cannot be satisfactorily analyzed, but it can be illustrated to bring out its salient characteristics. That is the purpose of this instructive and witty book.
9780060930462
2005050316
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Arts--History.
Artists--Biography.
Biography
NX160.J68.C743 2007