Creators : from Chaucer and Dürer to Picasso and Disney /: from Chaucer and Dürer to Picasso and Disney. (2009)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Paul Johnson.
• Other Names: Johnson, Paul, 1928-
• Contents: The anatomy of creative courage -- Chaucer : the man in the fourteenth-century street -- Dürer : 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.
• Publisher Details: New York : HarperCollins e-books
• Publication Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource (336 pages)
• Subjects: 700/.92/2 B; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.); Arts -- History; Artists -- Biography; Création collective (Théâtre); Art -- Travail en équipe; Arts -- Histoire; Artistes -- Biographies; Artists; Arts; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.); Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.); Arts -- History; Artists -- Biography; Biography; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780061740954; 0061740950
• Related ISBNs: 9780060930462
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.