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Creators: from Chaucer to Walt Disney
by Johnson, Paul
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0297851233
- ISBN 13
- 9780297851233
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd, London, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Notes and index. Blue coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the back strip. Plaintext dustwrapper with white, pale yellow and orange coloured titles to the front panel and white and orange coloured titles to the back strip. In the author's previous book "Intellectuals" he took issue with behaviours of the people he was writing about. In this, the follow-up book, " ... he celebrates the achievements of outstanding and prolific creative spirits." – from front fold over panel blurb. A little rubbing of the book corners and back strip edges with softening to the lower book edges. Tanning of the text block edges and pages. A previous owner has dogeared some of the top corners of the pages and underlined some of the text. A little creasing of the top dustwrapper edge with rubbing of the panels. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [9], 2 - 310, [2] pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Psychology & Psychiatry; Biography & Autobiography. ISBN: 0297851233. ISBN/EAN: 9780297851233. Inventory No: 0288640. . 9780297851233
Synopsis
Twenty years ago Paul Johnson published Intellectuals, biographical essays forming what Kingsley Amis described as "a valuable and entertaining Rogues' Gallery of Adventures of the Mind." It was a bestseller in many of the score of languages into which it was translated, but also criticized for describing clever people "so as to bring out their bad behavior" (Bernard Williams, New York Review of Books).Paul Johnson now meets the charge with this companion volume of essays on outstanding and prolific creative spirits. He looks at writers from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Mark Twain and T. S. Eliot, artists like Durer, and architects such as Pugin and Viollet-le-Duc. He explains the different ways in which Jane Austen, Madame de Stael, and George Eliot struggled to make their voices heard in the masculine hubbub. Victor Hugo allows him to ask, "Can imaginative genius coexist with low intelligence?" Johann Sebastian Bach gives him the opportunity to focus on the role of genetics in creativity and to explore the strange world of the organ loft. Louis Comfort Tiffany takes him into the technology of glass-making and the tragic vagaries of aesthetic fashion. Some essays make illuminating comparisons: of Turner with his contemporary the Japanese master Hokusai, and of the two great dress designers, Balenciaga and Dior. The final essay examines those two inventive geniuses, Picasso and Disney, and asks which had the greater influence on the visual arts of the twentieth century -- and beyond.Paul Johnson believes that creation is a mysterious business that cannot be satisfactorily analyzed. But it can be illustrated in such a way as to bring out its salient characteristics. That is the purpose of this instructive and witty book.
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- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0288640
- Title
- Creators: from Chaucer to Walt Disney
- Author
- Johnson, Paul
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0297851233
- ISBN 13
- 9780297851233
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2006
- Keywords
- BZDB2 Creative people, psychology, BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY Psychology & Psychiatry; Biography & Autobiography. Unbranded ISBN: 0297851233 EAN: 9780297851233 Johnson, Paul Creators: from Chaucer to Walt Disney
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Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
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About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
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