Creators: From Chaucer and Durer to Picasso and Disney
by:
Paul Johnson (author)
Kingsley Amis described Paul Johnson's Intellectuals as “a valuable and entertaining Rogues' Gallery of Adventures of the Mind.” Now the celebrated journalist and historian offers Creators, a companion volume of essays that examines a host of outstanding and prolific creative spirits. Here are...
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Kingsley Amis described Paul Johnson's Intellectuals as “a valuable and entertaining Rogues' Gallery of Adventures of the Mind.” Now the celebrated journalist and historian offers Creators, a companion volume of essays that 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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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780060930462 (0060930462)
Publish date: May 1st 2007
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
Writing,
Essays,
History,
Literature,
Art,
Culture,
Philosophy,
Sociology,
Music
Well, a great deal of knowledge, some I find very eye opening (e.g Wagner's creating mode, T.S. Eliot's story, or Balenciaga's high fashion, Mark Twain's story telling, Victor Hugo's intellectuals and Picasso's morals - I've never come across these lives or these aspects of their lives before)But, t...
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