Creators : from Chaucer and D<U+00fc>rer to Picasso and Disney

Main Author: Johnson
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2006.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
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245 1 0 |a Creators :   |b from Chaucer and D<U+00fc>rer to Picasso and Disney   |c Paul Johnson. 
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260 0 0 |a New York:   |b HarperCollins Publishers,   |c 2006. 
300 |a 310p:   |b ill.;   |c 24 cm. 
504 0 0 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-300) and index 
505 0 0 |a The anatomy of creative courage -- Chaucer : the man in the fourteenth-century street -- D<U+00fc>rer : 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 
650 0 0 |a Artists --   |x Biography  
650 0 0 |a Arts --   |x History  
650 0 0 |a Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)  
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