| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
310 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-300) and index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Arts -- History.
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Artists -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
0060191430 hardcover alkaline paper |
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978006191436 |
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