TY - BOOK AU - Johnson,Paul TI - Creators: from Chaucer and Durer to Picasso and Disney SN - 9780060930462 AV - NX160 .J64 2007 PY - 2007///, c2006 CY - New York PB - Harper Perennial KW - Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) KW - Arts KW - History KW - Artists KW - Biography N1 - 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 ER -