Жанр "Культура. Искусство"

John Ruskin overturned Victorian society’s ideas about art and architecture, arguing that ancient buildings must be conserved for...

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

Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of...

David Thomson's 'Have You Seen?' - A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films is a quirky, idiosyncratic and hugely entertaining look...

The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles is art critic Martin Gayford's account of the tumultuous...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

The master of Japanese ukiyo-e
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition....

Griffin... , Harper...

An accessible A-Z guide to best contemporary art made since 2000.

In December 2018, after fifty years of belly-laughs, energy and outrage, Billy Connolly announced his retirement from live...

Gaiman... , Лайвли...

How are great turning points in history experienced by individuals?

As Britain pulls away from Europe great British writers...

On a freezing night in January 2013, an assailant hurled acid in the face of the artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet,...

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

Most people around the world today know something about American life. The United States is a big country. Not all Americans are...

A James Beard Award-winning writer captures life under the Red socialist banner in this wildly inventive, tragicomic memoir of...

'Good b.o means good "box office." You can smell it from a mile away'
The legendary sixties New York pop artist Andy Warhol's...

As cryptic as they are compelling, the masterpieces of Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450-1516) remain some of the most enduring enigmas...

From the streets of New York to the walls of its most prominent galleries, young graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988)...

Альбом, посвященный жизни и творчеству художника Евгения Линдина. На русском и английском языках.

Massie's Pavlovsk, acclaimed as one of the best and most exciting cultural histories of recent years, provides important insights...

Корнева... , Ч...

The authors of this book, Galina Korneva and Tatiana Cheboksarova, are well-known St. Petersburg students of local lore, as well...

Издание полностью на английском языке.
The author's incisive and amusingly despairing emails to colleagues at the "The Daily...

In one volume for the first time, this revised and updated examination of how J.R.R.Tolkien came to write his original...

Vermeer's women, their duties and unspoken dreams
The 35 paintings that have come down to us from the hand of Jan Vermeer...

Ироничный и парадоксальный взгляд на мир, сделал имя Андрея Карпова популярным среди знатоков и коллекционеров во многих странах...