Creators : from Chaucer and D<U+00fc>rer to Picasso and Disney - Johnson (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2006)
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
Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-300) and index
Keywords: Artists -- -- Biography; Arts -- -- History; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)