Full name: Creators: From Chaucer and Durer to Picasso and Disney

Author: Paul Johnson Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780060930462 0060930462

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. Similar books: Nelson and Emma by Roger Hudson Banvard's Folly by Paul Collins Arbella by Sarah Gristwood Bess of Hardwick by Mary S. Lovell Queen Anne by Anne Somerset Brave Companions by David McCullough Genghis Khan by Harold Lamb The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte by Robert Asprey The Richest Woman in America by Janet Wallach Amerigo by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto Doc Holliday by John Myers Myers Queen Victoria by Lucy Worsley Thomas Jefferson by Christopher Hitchens Mary Tudor by H. F. M. Prescott Eleanor of Aquitaine by Marion Meade