Creators : from Chaucer and Dürer to Picasso and Disney /
The author, in this companion volume to his Creators, examines a host of outstanding and prolific creative spirits. Here are Disney, Picasso, Bach, and Shakespeare; Austen, Twain, and T.S. Eliot; and Dürer, Hokusai, Pugin, and Viollet-le-Duc, among many others. Paul Johnson believes that creation ca...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Harper Perennial,
2007.
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| Edition: | First Harper Perennial edition. |
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| Summary: | The author, in this companion volume to his Creators, examines a host of outstanding and prolific creative spirits. Here are Disney, Picasso, Bach, and Shakespeare; Austen, Twain, and T.S. Eliot; and Dürer, Hokusai, Pugin, and Viollet-le-Duc, among many others. Paul Johnson believes that creation cannot be satisfactorily analyzed, but it can be illustrated to bring out its salient characteristics. That is the purpose of this instructive and witty book. |
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| Item Description: | Reprint of HarperCollins edition with an 18 p. "P.S. insights, interviews & more." |
| Physical Description: | 310, 18 pages ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-300) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0060930462 9780060930462 |