Жанр "Культура. Искусство"

Hadley Freeman brings us her personalised guide to American movies from the 1980s – why they are brilliant, what they meant to...

Crawshaw... , Finmark...

This popular book provides all the information you need to get started in watercolour painting. Full of clear, simple advice and...

The Collins Gem series is being relaunched in Spring 2004 and this new title features a new internal design and a strong new...

This is the book that made Simon Schama’s reputation when first published in 1987. A historical masterpiece, it is an epic...

'One of the great books about Spain' - Tristan Garel-Jones, Observer

A many-tangented pilgrimage through ten centuries of...

John James Audubon (1785-1851) was for half a century America's dominant wildlife artist. His seminal Birds of America, a...

Riffling through the wardrobes of years gone by, costume historian Lucy Adlington reveals the rich stories underlying the clothes...

Andrew... , Green...

A hugely enjoyable and original history of the interplay between spying and showbiz from Shakespeare to James Bond

A vastly...

A legendary collection of essays by one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century

Illuminations contains the most...

'Great art has dreadful manners...' Simon Schama observes at the start of his epic exploration of the power, and whole point, of...

As the girl came running up the steps, I decided she was wearing far too many clothes...So, in 1989, readers were introduced to...

Carrington's beguiling letters take us beyond the Bloomsbury group to discuss sexual mores, how to be an artist, and what it is...

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

In the autumn of 1502 three giants of the Renaissance period - Cesare Borgia, Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolo Machiavelli - set out...

Nik Cohn began to write this book in the late 1960s with a simple purpose: to catch the feel, the pulse of Rock. Nobody had...

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

In...

In thirteen chapters, Belgian poet Charlotte Van den Broeck goes in search of buildings that were fatal for their architects -...

Why was there a Turkish mosque adorning Britain's most famous botanic garden in in the eighteenth century? And more importantly,...

Once a week, in late eighteenth-century London, writers of contrasting politics and personalities gathered around a dining table....

This is the inside story of twelve years at the helm of Britain’s greatest theatre.

It is a story of lunatic failures and...

A thrillingly original, labyrinthine journey through myth, art, literature, history, archaeology and memoir.

The tale of how...

In December 1888, Vincent van Gogh cut off his ear. It is the most famous story about any artist in history. But what really...

This book is a masterclass in the craft of writing and poetry from one of Britain's most celebrated poets and educators, T.S....

From the author of the bestselling phenomenon The Hare with Amber Eyes

As you may have guessed by now, I am not in your house...

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

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

Christopher Somerville, author of the acclaimed The January Man, pictured cathedrals as great unmoving bastions of tradition. But...

The Roots of Romanticism is the long-awaited text of Isaiah Berlin's most celebrated set of lectures, the Mellon Lectures,...

Illuminating reflections on painting and drawing from one of the most revered artists of the twentieth century

'Thank God for...

'When the last fire goes out, time too will be finished'

Italo Calvino was one of the most joyful and imaginative writers of...

From the bestselling author of Meetings With Remarkable Manuscripts, a captivating account of the last surviving relic of Thomas...