The History of Rome by Theodor Mommsen, translated by William Purdie...
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Автор: Brodskaia Nathalia
Серия: Art of Century Collection
Язык: английский
Год: 2011
Статус: Закончена
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Born at the dawn of the 20th century, Fauvism burst in 1905 Salon d'Automne with a resounding scandal. It was like throwing colors at the face of the academic art entangled in its ancestral conventions. Then several artists, like Matisse, Derain...
"Charles Van Doren has laid a feast before all of us that is irresistible." --Mortimer J. Adler
This engaging love letter to reading follows the great authors and classics that transformed the world--from Aristotle and Herodotus in ancient Greece to...
Александр Секацкий в Журнальном зале...
Over the last two decades, writer-director Guillermo del Toro has mapped out a territory in the popular imagination that is uniquely his own, astonishing audiences with Cronos, Hellboy, Pan’s Labyrinth, and a host of other films and creative...
The remarkable story of the Renaissance's preeminent financiers. "A swift and brilliant synthesis of finance, politics, and history."Ben Sisario, New York Times Book Review.
Their name is a byword for immense wealth and power, but before their...
Sidney Monas, "Osip Mandelstam: Selected Essays"
ISBN: 0292741456 | 2014 270 pages |
Osip Mandelstam, who died anonymously in a Siberian transit-camp in 1938, is now generally considered to be among the four or five greatest Russian...
Военная документалистика и аналитика, Культурология
Wartime Sexual Violence Against Men: Masculinities and Power in Conflict Zones
Cases of sexual violence against men have been documented in a great number of conflicts and wars, both ancient and contemporary. Despite this growing empirical evidence, there is still a dearth of analyses on this type of violence, which stands in...
Автор: Charles Victoria , Carl Klaus
Серия: Art of Century Collection
Язык: английский
Год: 2009
Статус: Закончена
The Baroque period lasted from the beginning of the seventeenth century to the middle of the eighteenth century. Baroque art was artists' response to the Catholic Church's demand for solemn grandeur following the Council of Trent, and through its...
A compelling intellectual biography of Stalin told through his personal library In this engaging life of the twentieth century’s most self-consciously learned dictator, Geoffrey Roberts explores the books Stalin read, how he read them, and what...