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

by Johnson, Paul, 1928-

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HarperCollins Publishers, c2006.

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)

Arts -- History.

Artists -- Biography.

0060191430 (hc : alk. paper)

310 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-300) and index.

1. anatomy of creative courage -- 2. Chaucer : the man in the fourteenth-century street -- 3. Durer : a strong smell of printer's ink -- 4. Shakespeare : glimpses of an unknown colossus -- 5. J. S. Bach : the genetics of the organ loft -- 6. Turner and Hokusai : apocalypse now and then -- 7. Jane Austen : shall we join the ladies? -- 8. A. W. N. Pugin and Viollet-le-Duc : Goths for all seasons -- 9. Victor Hugo : the genius without a brain -- 10. Mark Twain : how to tell a joke -- 11. Tiffany : through a glass darkly -- 12. T. S. Eliot : the last poet to wear spats -- 13. Balenciaga and Dior : the aesthetics of a buttonhole -- 14. Picasso and Walt Disney : room for nature in a modern world? -- 15. Metaphors in a laboratory.

"In this volume Paul Johnson looks at writers from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Mark Twain and T. S. Eliot, artists like Durer, and architects such as Pugin and Viollet-le-Duc. He explains the different ways in which Jane Austen, Madame de Stael, and George Eliot struggled to make their voices heard in the masculine hubbub. Victor Hugo allows him to ask, "Can imaginative genius coexist with low intelligence?" Johann Sebastian Bach gives him the opportunity to focus on the role of genetics in creativity and to explore the strange world of the organ loft. Louis Comfort Tiffany takes him into the technology of glass-making and the tragic vagaries of aesthetic fashion. Some essays make illuminating comparisons: of Turner with his contemporary the Japanese master Hokusai, and of the two great dress designers, Balenciaga and Dior. The final essay examines those two inventive geniuses, Picasso and Disney, and asks which had the greater influence on the visual arts of the twentieth century - and beyond."--BOOK JACKET.

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