The book is dedicated to a comprehensive study of the creative genius of Leonardo - the most complete embodiment of the humanistic culture of the Renaissance...
The second book in the `Canons` series contains translations of treatises from the 3rd century. (Liu Shao) and XI century. (Li Gou). For the modern reader, t...
The book is dedicated to Soviet avant-garde photography of the 1920s–1930s, which is considered in the context of the transformation of modernism and the for...
Neya Zorkaya (1924–2006) is a leading specialist in the history of culture, a world-famous film scholar, winner of several awards, author of two dozen books ...
André Malraux is a French writer, a prominent political and cultural figure, a thinker who largely influenced the work of Achbert Camus, but above all, one o...
The famous French writer and art scholar reflects on the influence that their lovers had on the lives and works of famous artists. The book has ten chapters ...
Art history is more than just a collection of dates and foreign-sounding names, obscure movements and arcane isms. Every age, for the last 50,000 years ha...
This book is dedicated to one of the most fascinating aspects of European art - the iconography of images of women who played an important role in the histor...
The legendary book by the famous art historian and art critic Robert Hughes, “The Shock of Novelty,” was published in 1980. Each of its eight chapters corres...
This book is Irina Alexandrovna’s thoughts about life, about art and stories about people close to her: about Lydia Delectorskaya and Svyatoslav Richter, abo...
About the book “Free” and imperceptible time is the most valuable resource we have. But we often do not take care of it, and this applies not only to individ...
This book is an encyclopedia of the afterlife in Chinese beliefs. It recreates the picture of traditional popular ideas about the structure of the world of t...
