Creators

by Paul M. Johnson

Pugin’s

  Sand’s

  Shakespeare’s

  Turner’s

  Wagner’s

  women creators and

  Fantasia (Disney)

  Faraday, Michael

  fashion design. See Balenciaga, Cristóbal; Dior, Christian

  favrile glass, Tiffany’s

  Fawkes family

  fear, creativity and

  Feast of the Rose Garland, The (Dürer)

  Fighting Téméraire, The (Turner)

  films, Disney’s

  financial status

  Bach’s

  creativity, begging letters, and,

  Dior’s

  Dürer’s

  Hokusai’s

  Picasso’s

  Pugin’s

  Turner’s

  Flowers and Trees (Disney)

  Four Quartets (T. S. Eliot)

  Four Seasons (Tiffany)

  Frankenstein (Shelley)

  French culture

  Chaucer and

  Hugo (see Hugo, Victor)

  fugues, Bach’s

  functionalism, Pugin’s

  funerals. See also deaths

  Dior’s

  Hugo’s

  furniture design

  Morris’s

  Pugin’s

  genetics. See families

  German culture

  Dürer and

  Bach and

  Giordano, Luca

  glassmaking methods See also Tiffany, Louis Comfort

  God

  Bach and

  Balenciaga and

  creativity and

  T. S. Eliot and

  Picasso and

  Pugin and

  Goldberg Variations (Bach)

  “Golden Arm, The” (Twain)

  goldsmithing

  Dürer and

  Pugin and

  Gothic architecture. See Pugin, A. W.

  N.; Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène

  Guernica (Picasso)

  Gutenberg, Johann

  Hals, Franz

  Hamlet (Shakespeare)

  harpsichord music, Bach’s

  haute couture. See Balenciaga, Cristóbal; Dior, Christian

  Haydn, Franz Joseph and Michael

  Hemingway, Ernest

  Henry IV (Shakespeare)

  heredity. See families

  Heroes (Johnson)

  hieratic vs. demotic language

  Hobbes, Thomas

  Hokusai Katsushika

  House of Fame (Chaucer)

  Houses of Parliament (Pugin)

  Howerd, Frankie

  Hugo, Victor

  architecture and

  death and funeral of

  Dickens vs.

  family of

  lack of intelligence of

  music and

  politics of

  productivity of

  women and sexuality of

  humor

  Austen’s

  Chaucer’s

  creativity and

  Disney’s (see Disney, Mark)

  T. S. Eliot’s

  Shakespeare’s

  Twain’s (see Twain, Mark)

  hypotheses as metaphors

  Ibsen, Henrik

  illustrations. See book illustrations; drawings

  Imhotep

  individualism

  creativity and

  Dürer’s

  Picasso, Disney, and

  Innocents Abroad, The (Twain)

  instrumentation

  Bach’s

  Shakespeare’s

  intellectuality

  T. S. Eliot’s

  Shakespeare’s lack of

  Turner’s

  Intellectuals (Johnson)

  intelligence, Hugo’s lack of

  inventions

  Italian culture

  Chaucer and

  Dürer and

  Turner and

  Iwerks, Ubbe

  James, William

  Japanese landscape painting See also Hokusai Katsushika

  Jenkins, Roy

  jewelry, Tiffany’s

  jokes. See humor

  Jonson, Ben

  jubiliee poems

  keyboard music, Bach’s

  Knight, Death, and the Devil (Dürer)

  Kolberger, Anton

  lamps

  Davy’s

  Tiffany’s

  landscapes. See Hokusai Katsushika; Tiffany, Louis Comfort; Turner, Joseph Mallord William

  language. See dialects; dialogue; English language

  Laurelton Hall home, Tiffany’s

  letters, begging

  lewd vs. learned language

  Liber Studiorum (Turner)

  light, Turner and

  literature See also Austen, Jane; Chaucer, Geoffrey; Eliot, T. S.; Hugo, Victor; nonfiction; Shakespeare, William; Twain, Mark

  Lorrain, Claude

  luck, creativity and

  luxury, Wagner and

  Madonna with the Siskin, The (Dürer)

  Manga (Hokusai)

  Mansfield Park (Austen)

  Martin, Kingsley

  Mass in B Minor (Bach)

  material, Balenciaga’s

  Melancholia (Dürer)

  Merry Wives of Windsor, The (Shakespeare)

  metallurgy See also goldsmithing

  metaphors, hypotheses as

  Mickey Mouse character, Disney’s

  morality, Picasso’s See also God

  Morris, William

  movies, Disney’s

  Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

  music. See also operas

  Bach’s (see Bach Johann Sebastian)

  Disney and

  Mozart’s

  Shakespeare and

  Wagner and

  naturalism

  Disney’s

  Dürer’s

  Picasso and

  Nazis, Picasso and

  Necker, Germaine (Madame de Staël

  Nobel prizes

  nonfiction

  author’s

  Dürer’s

  Hugo’s

  Pugin’s

  Ruskin’s

  Viollet-le-Duc’s

  Northanger Abbey (Austen)

  novels

  Austen’s (see Austen, Jane)

  Hugo’s

  Twain’s (see Twain, Mark)

  one-liners, Twain’s

  operas. See also music

  Hugo’s plays as

  Shakespeare’s plays as

  Wagner’s

  orchestral music, Bach’s

  organs, Bach and

  originality See also creativity

  output. See productivity

  painting. See Hokusai Katsushika; Picasso, Pablo; Turner, Joseph Mallord William

  Paris, fashion design and See also Balenciaga, Cristóbal; Dior, Christian

  Parliament of Fowls, The (Chaucer)

  Peacock Window (Tiffany)

  performance art, Hokusai’s

  permanence, Balenciaga and

  persiflage, Shakespeare’s

  personal experience

  Persuasion (Austen)

  Phoenix and the Turtle, The (Shakespeare)

  physical debility, creativity and

  pianoforte music, Bach’s

  Picasso, Pablo

  Disney vs.

  fame and financial status of

  family of

  productivity of

  sexuality and morality of

  plays

  Hugo’s

  T. S. Eliot’s

  Shakespeare’s (see Shakespeare, William)

  poetry

  Chaucer’s (see Chaucer, Geoffrey)

  T. S. Eliot’s (see Eliot, T. S.)

  Hugo’s

  Shakespeare’s (see Shakespeare, William)

  Pointed Gothic architecture. See Pugin, A. W. N.; Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène

  politics

  Disney vs. Picasso and

  Hugo’s

  Shakespea
re’s

  Potter, Beatrice

  Pound, Ezra

  Powell, Anthony

  practicality

  Bach’s

  Chaucer’s

  Dürer’s

  Pugin’s

  Shakespeare’s

  Pride and Prejudice (Austen)

  printing. See also book illustrations

  Dürer and

  Hokusai and

  Pritchett, V. S.

  productivity. See also creativity

  Austen’s

  Bach’s

  Dürer’s

  George Eliot’s

  Picasso’s

  Shakespeare’s

  proverbs, Chaucer and

  Pugin, A. W. N.

  appearance of

  business acumen of

  drawings and designs of

  family of

  Gothic style of

  influence of, on Ruskin, Viollet-le-Duc, and Morris

  pyramid at Saqqâra (Imhotep)

  realism. See naturalism

  registration, Bach and organ

  Regulus (Turner)

  religion. See God

  restorations, Viollet-le-Duc’s

  rewards See also fame; financial status

  Ring, The (Wagner)

  Roosevelt, Theodore

  Roughing It (Twain)

  Royal Academy

  running gags, Twain’s

  Ruskin, John

  safety lamp, Davy’s

  St. Chad’s cathedral (Pugin)

  St. Jerome in His Study (Dürer)

  St. Matthew Passion (Bach)

  Sand, George (Aurore Dupin)

  Saqqâra pyramid (Imhotep)

  Scarlatti family

  Schongauer, Martin

  sciences

  artist-scientists

  careers and creativity

  creativity and

  Davy’s safety lamp

  Edison’s inventions

  experience and

  hypotheses as metaphors

  Telford’s constructions

  seascapes, Hokusai’s

  secretiveness, Turner’s

  self-confidence

  Austen’s

  Chaucer’s

  Sense and Sensibility (Austen)

  sexuality. See also women

  Austen’s

  Balenciaga’s

  Hugo’s

  Picasso’s

  Tiffany’s

  Turner’s

  Shakespeare, William

  dialects of

  English language and

  Falstaff character in Henry IV by

  family and career of

  Hamlet by

  music and

  practicality of

  productivity of

  values of

  Shelley, Mary

  shunga, Hokusai’s

  Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney)

  sound, Disney and See also music

  Spencer, Herbert

  spirituality. See God

  staffage, Turner’s

  Steamboat Willie (Disney)

  Stendhal

  Stevenson, Robert Louis

  studios. See collective creativity

  surrealism, Picasso’s

  symbolism, T. S. Eliot’s

  synthetic cubism, Picasso’s

  Taming of the Shrew, The (Shakespeare)

  technology

  Bach and organs

  creativity and

  Disney and

  Turner and

  Telford, Thomas

  tempering, Bach’s keyboard

  Tempest, The (Shakespeare)

  theaters. See also plays

  first electric, by Edison and Tiffany

  movie houses and Disney

  Pugin and

  Shakespeare and

  theme parks, Disney’s

  theory

  Dürer’s

  Pugin’s

  Shakespeare’s dislike of

  Viollet-le-Duc’s

  Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Hokusai)

  Thomas, Dylan

  Tiffany, Louis Comfort

  art nouveau and

  Joseph Briggs’s collection and Tiffany revival

  colored window glass of

  as creator facilitator

  Edison and

  fame and decline of

  family and jewelry business of

  glassmaking methods

  lamps of

  William Morris and

  new glass types of

  time, T. S. Eliot and

  Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri

  travel

  Bach and

  Chaucer, Ruskin, and

  Dürer and

  T. S. Eliot and

  Hokusai and

  Pugin and

  Turner and

  Tree in the Marsh (Tiffany)

  Tristan und Isolde (Wagner)

  Troilus and Cressida (Shakespeare)

  Troilus and Criseyde (Chaucer)

  Turner, Joseph Mallord William

  color usage

  erotica of

  fame and financial status of

  family of

  Hokusai Katsushika vs.

  productivity of

  travels of

  Twain, Mark

  American literature and

  careers of

  “The Golden Arm” story

  humor and skills of

  productivity of

  Ursprung (Bach)

  verse. See poetry

  Vindication of the Rights of Women (Wollstonecraft)

  Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène

  vocal music, Bach’s

  vulgar language

  Wagner, Richard

  Waste Land, The (T. S. Eliot)

  watercolors

  Dürer’s

  Pugin’s

  Turner’s

  Watsons, The (Austen)

  Waugh, Evelyn

  Weber family

  Well-Tempered Clavier (Bach)

  white school, Turner’s

  widows, artist

  wine, Chaucer and See also alcohol

  Wolgemut, Michael

  Wollstonecraft, Mary

  women. See also sexuality

  artist widows

  Austen (see Austen, Jane)

  Balenciaga and

  creativity and families of

  George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)

  T. S. Eliot and

  Hokusai’s erotica and

  Hugo and

  humor and

  Picasso and

  Pugin and

  George Sand (Aurore Dupin)

  Shakespeare’s roles

  woodcuts

  Dürer’s

  Hokusai’s

  Woodward, Robert Burns

  word coinage. See English language

  Wordsworth, William and Dorothy

  Worth, Charles Frederick

  Wren, Sir Christopher

  Wright, Frank Lloyd

  writing See also Austen, Jane; Chaucer, Geoffrey; Eliot, T. S.; Hugo, Victor; nonfiction; Shakespeare, William; Twain, Mark

  About the Author

  PAUL JOHNSON is a historian whose work ranges over the millennia and the whole gamut of human activities. His History of Christianity and History of the Jews describe the religious dimension, his Modern Times encapsulates the twentieth century, and his Art: A New History is the story of visual culture in all its forms, from the cave painters to today. He contributes a weekly essay to the Spectator, a monthly column to Forbes, practices the gentle art of watercolor painting, and lives in London and Somerset. He has four children and eight grandchildren.

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  George Washington

  Art: A New History

  A History of the American People

  The Quest for God

  The Birth of the Modern

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  A History of the English People

  A History of the Jews

  Modern Times

  A History of Christianity

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