TY  - BOOK
AU  - Johnson,Paul
TI  - Creators: from Chaucer and Durer to Picasso and Disney 
SN  - 9780060930462
AV  - NX160.J68.C743 2007 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York, New York
PB  - Harper Perennial
KW  - Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
KW  - Arts
KW  - History
KW  - Artists
KW  - Biography
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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
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