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Where do great ideas come from? Ask the great originals. In Creators, celebrated journalist and historian Paul Johnson turns his formidable storytelling gifts to the men and women whose imaginations remade the world. From Geoffrey Chaucer and Albrecht Dürer to Shakespeare, Bach, Jane Austen, Mark Twain, and T. S. Eliot — and finally to Picasso and Disney, the two inventive geniuses of the modern age — Johnson profiles the great originals of Western culture.
Each essay is a vivid, intimate portrait: not just what they made, but how, and why, and at what cost. Johnson believes that creation cannot be satisfactorily analyzed — only admired. His conclusion is provocative: in the final essay he weighs Picasso against Disney and asks which of the two had the greater impact on the century.
First published in 2006, and a companion to his bestselling Intellectuals, Creators is history written with flair — perfect for anyone who has ever wondered where great ideas come from, and endlessly quotable for readers who love a big cultural argument.
What makes a creator? In Creators, celebrated journalist and historian Paul Johnson turns his formidable storytelling gifts to the men and women whose imaginations remade the world.
From Geoffrey Chaucer and Albrecht Dürer to Shakespeare, Bach, Jane Austen, Mark Twain, and T. S. Eliot — and finally to the two inventive geniuses of the modern age, Picasso and Disney — Johnson profiles the great originals of Western culture. Each essay is a vivid, intimate portrait: not just what they made, but how, and why, and at what cost.
Johnson believes that creation cannot be satisfactorily analyzed — only admired. His conclusion is provocative: in the final essay he weighs Picasso against Disney and asks which of the two had the greater impact on the century.
First published in 2006 by HarperCollins, and a companion to his bestselling Intellectuals, Creators is history written with flair — perfect for anyone who has ever wondered where great ideas come from.
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