Creators
From Chaucer and Durer to Picasso and Disney
On Sale: 05/01/2007
Creators
From Chaucer and Durer to Picasso and Disney
On Sale: 05/01/2007
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About the Book
“Johnson emphasizes the rarity of truly visionary artists . . . his approach is unfailingly generous. . . . Genuinely revealing.” —Publishers Weekly
From celebrated journalist and historian Paul Johnson, an enlightening look at the imagination and drive of visionaries who have changed our world.
Paul Johnson believes that creation is a mysterious business which cannot be satisfactorily analyzed. But it can be illustrated in such a way as to bring out its salient characteristics. In this companion to his New York Times bestseller, Intellectuals, he profiles outstanding and prolific creative spirits from a variety of artistic pursuits. Here are essays on such giants as Chaucer and Shakespeare, Mark Twain and T. S. Eliot, Jane Austen and George Eliot; artists such as Dürer, Turner, and the contemporary Japanese master Hokusai; architects Pugin and Viollet-le-Duc; Johann Sebastian Bach; Louis Comfort Tiffany; clothing designers Balenciaga and Dior; and masters of the 20th century, Picasso and Disney.
Critical Praise
“Creators is a splendidly idiosyncratic book, brooking no compromise and bristling with opinions.” — Dominic Sandbrook, Evening Standard
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Product Details
- ISBN: 9780060930462
- ISBN 10: 0060930462
- Imprint: Harper Perennial
- On Sale: 05/01/2007
- Pages: 336
- List Price:21.99 CAD
- BISAC1 : MATHEMATICS / History & Philosophy
- BISAC2 : MUSIC / History & Criticism
- BISAC3 : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts
- BISAC4 : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Artists, Architects, Photographers
- BISAC5 : HISTORY / Social History
