01406pamaa2200217 4500 0000045286 20090706090000.0 090612 eng 0060191430 / 9780060191436 NX160 JOH 2006 Johnson Creators : from Chaucer and D<U+00fc>rer to Picasso and Disney Paul Johnson. 1st ed. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2006. 310p: ill.; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-300) and index 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 Artists -- Biography Arts -- History Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) www.harpercollins.com