Жанр "Культура. Искусство"

In 1508, Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The thirty-three-year-old...

Michelangelo’s breathtaking drawings
Very few artists can claim such lasting and worldwide fame and importance as Michelangelo...

Most art historians agree that the modern art adventure first developed in the 1860s in Paris. A circle of painters, whom we now...

Great works of art cannot be fully understood in a single encounter: to revisit and reconsider art again and again throughout...

While acknowledging the legacy of Herbert Read’s classic 1959 study A Concise History of Modern Painting in the World of Art...

Monet's dazzling depictions of flowers, sunsets, fields, and oceans, in which line and shape are suggested through pure colour,...

No other artist, apart from J.M.W.Turner, tried as hard as Claude Monet to capture light itself on canvas. Of all the...

For generations, the trilogy of the Kremlin, Red Square, and the GUM department store marked the undisputed centre of Moscow. The...

Hill James, Petrova...

While in other Soviet cities and republics monumental mosaics became common in the 1960s, in Moscow mosaic was used for art-deco...

B... , Perdrisot...

This comprehensive tome covers all aspects of Picasso's artistic career, from self- portraits to sculpture to photography, and...

Meet the unexpected, overlooked and forgotten models of art history.

Who was Picasso's 'Weeping Woman'?
Why was Grace Jones...

Beloved by millions, praised by film critic Roger Ebert as "the best animation filmmaker in history," and referred to as the...

In this magnificent and often surprising collection of essays Barthes explores the myths of mass culture. Taking subjects as...

Discover the world's greatest myths and legends - from Greek mythology to Norse mythology - in this comprehensive guide.

What...

Netherlandish, Flemish and Dutch Drawings of the XVI-XVIII Centuries. Belgian and Dutch Drawings of the XIX-XX Centuries, which...

Nozhova... , Hassler...

The works of Vladimir G. Shukhov have been a topic of academic discourse in the West since the 1990s. Shukhov is now regarded as...

The Tatarstan State Museum of ine Arts, Museum of the Art of Asian Peoples, Tretyakov Gallery, Nizhnegorod State Museum of Fine...

I hadn’t opened the towel that contained her gum since 2013. The last person to touch it was Nina Simone, her saliva and...

A poetic meditation on life and death, by one of the most renowned and respected film-makers and intellectuals of our time.

In...

Several years ago Sally Muir began a project, posting dog art daily, which became the best-selling book A Dog A Day. Through the...

'Blackburn rescues the man from inside the madman. She redeems a lost life' - The Times

In 1792, when he was forty-seven, the...

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have...

Artist, architect, poet and philosopher, Leon Battista Alberti revolutionized the history of art with his theories of perspective...

Susan Sontag's On Photography is a seminal and groundbreaking work on the subject.

Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of...

A revelatory compendium on the reinvention of Soviet poster art under Glasnost

As we approach the 30th anniversary of the...

Revolutionary essays on design, aesthetics and materialism - from one of the great masters of modern architecture

Adolf Loos,...

For at least two and a half millennia, the figure of Orpheus has haunted humanity. Half-man, half-god, musician, magician,...

Wit, dandy, literary anarchist, self-publicist, and homosexual martyr, Oscar Wilde achieved fame and notoriety at a time when...

Daringly innovative when it opened in 1848, the Palm House in Kew Gardens remains one of the most beautiful glass buildings in...

Palladio (1508-80) combined classical restraint with constant inventiveness. In this study, Professor Ackerman sets Palladio in...