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Creators : from Chaucer and Durer to Picasso and Disney / Paul Johnson.
Publication details: New York : Harper Perennial, 2007, c2006.Edition: 1st Harper Perennial edDescription: 328 p. ; 21 cmISBN:- 9780060930462
- 0060930462
- NX160 .J64 2007
Contents:
The anatomy of creative courage -- Chaucer : the man in the fourteenth-century street -- Durer : 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.
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Non-fiction | Main Collection | NX 160 .J64 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 5171869 |
Originally published in hardcover: New York : HarperCollins, 2006.
Includes P.S. insights, interviews & more.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-300) and index.
The anatomy of creative courage -- Chaucer : the man in the fourteenth-century street -- Durer : 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.
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