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:
Table of Contents:
  • 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