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^ Read * Creators: From Chaucer and Durer to Picasso and Disney by Paul Johnson â eBook or Kindle ePUB. Creators: From Chaucer and Durer to Picasso and Disney "Erudition with Attitude" according to Robert Morris. This is a companion volume to Intellectuals (first published in 1988) in which Johnson focuses on a number of prominent as well as diverse intellectuals who include Rousseau, Shelley, Ibsen, Brecht, and Sartre. He proceeds in the same manner in Creators with his focus on an equally diverse group whose members include Chaucer, Bach, Austen, Eliot, and in Chapter 1Erudition with Attitude Robert Morris This is a companion volume to Intellectuals
| Title | : | Creators: From Chaucer and Durer to Picasso and Disney |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.20 (547 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0060930462 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-17 |
| Language | : | English |
"Erudition with Attitude" according to Robert Morris. This is a companion volume to Intellectuals (first published in 1988) in which Johnson focuses on a number of prominent as well as diverse intellectuals who include Rousseau, Shelley, Ibsen, Brecht, and Sartre. He proceeds in the same manner in Creators with his focus on an equally diverse group whose members include Chaucer, Bach, Austen, Eliot, and in Chapter 1Erudition with Attitude Robert Morris This is a companion volume to Intellectuals (first published in 1988) in which Johnson focuses on a number of prominent as well as diverse intellectuals who include Rousseau, Shelley, Ibsen, Brecht, and Sartre. He proceeds in the same manner in Creators with his focus on an equally diverse group whose members include Chaucer, Bach, Austen, Eliot, and in Chapter 14, Picasso and Disney. . , Picasso and Disney. . Four Stars Well written. Wide historical source.. An interesting tour of creators in various art forms and what their work required of them Craig Matteson There is a long line of books of lives and this is a quite interesting contribution to the genre. These kinds of books are not meant to be biographies as we know them today. This book has some points to make about the creative personality in its various manifestations over several centuries in many of the arts in the West. Yes, if you read a few dozen biographies you could get more in
That is the purpose of this instructive and witty book.. S. 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. 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
He lives in London, England.. He regularly writes book reviews for several UK magazines and newspapers, such as the Literary Review and The Spectator, and he lectures around the world. Paul Johnson is a historian whose work ranges over the millennia and the whole gamut of human activities
1)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. . All rights reserved. Johnson emphasizes the rarity of truly visionary artists, but this is not a particularly polemical book: his enthusiasm for the creators overrides his tendency to play the gadfly. (Apr. It's striking that several of his subjects became quite wealthy—he is particularly impressed with the riches Picasso amassed. His own efforts as a painter (mentioned with great modesty) add poignancy to his admiration for artists like Turner and Hokusai. Many of his subjects were tremendously ambitious and prolific, with exceptions like Jane Austen serving to illustrate this all the more. For Johnson, true genius resides not merely in native creativity but also in c
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