Жанр "Культура. Искусство"

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

The first major account of the history of reggae, black music journalist Lloyd Bradley describes its origins and development in...

Wicked stepmothers and beautiful princesses … magic forests and enchanted towers … little pigs and big bad wolves … Fairy tales...

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

Bruce Chatwin provides a fascinating background to indigenous Australian life.

The songlines are the invisible pathways that...

Foley... , Coates...

Need to swot up on your Shakespeare? The ultimate guide to the Bard, perfect for the Shakespeare aficionado and general reader...

These interlocking essays uncover art as an active force in the world - neither elitist or remote, present to those who want it,...

A collection of essays on writers and writing by the Booker-shortlisted novelist and critic.

Writing about real lives takes...

Ambitious and groundbreaking, Electric Shock tells the story of popular music, from the birth of recording in the 1890s to the...

How does the novel represent human consciousness on the page?
In eleven sparkling essays on some of the great novelists of the...

In this absorbing volume, David Lodge turns his incisive critical skills onto his own profession, salutes the great writers who...

In this entertaining and enlightening collection David Lodge considers the art of fiction under a wide range of headings, drawing...

If blockbusters make money no matter how bad they are, then why not make a good one for a change?

How can 3-D be the future of...

In Dubai, a luxury apartment block is built in the shape of a giant iPod. In China, President Xi Jinping denounces the trend of...

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

Even in an age of soaring skyscrapers and cavernous sports stadiums, the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence still...

Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-fiction - his essays, literary...

Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Cezanne, Renoir, Degas, Sisley, Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt.

Though they were often ridiculed or...

The vivid scenes on the Bayeux Tapestry depict the events leading up to the Battle of Hastings in 1066. It is one of Europe's...

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

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

A manual for showbiz survival from am dram to Hollywood and all that lies between.

Luvvies. Tyrannical directors. Useless...

From The Passion of the Christ to Life of Brian, and from The Ten Commandments to Last Temptation of Christ, filmmakers have been...

Hagen... , Hagen...

Everyday life in Ancient Egypt
How much do we really know about Ancient Egypt? The pharaohs and pyramids are familiar history...

The roaring twenties in Berlin
It was the decade of daring Expressionist canvases, of brilliant book design, of the Bauhaus...

Egon Schiele (1890 - 1918) is nowadays regarded as one of the leading pioneers of Modernism in Austria. Although he already...

Jean-Michel Basquiat's self-portraits are regarded as being among the most important of his radical creative works. In addition...

Lopez-Rey... , Delenda...

A catalogue raisonne of "the painter's painter"
Manet called him "the greatest painter of all." Picasso was so inspired by his...

A visual history of 200 Japanese masterpieces
From Edouard Manet’s portrait of naturalist writer Emile Zola sitting among his...

A historic trail through the heart of Japan, as told by two legendary woodblock artists
The Kisokaido route through Japan was...

In the art of the Italian Renaissance, the subject of the Madonna with Child was chosen for pictures more frequently than any...