On Photography is a 1977 collection of essays by Susan Sontag. It originally appeared as a series of essays in the New York Review of Books between 1973 and 1977.
Contents
In the book, Sontag expresses her views on the history and...
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In Victorian England, with the country swept up in the Industrial Revolution, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, close to William Morris Arts and Crafts movement, yearned for a return to bygone values. Wishing to revive the pure and noble forms of...
Дмитрий Петрович Святополк-Мирский
История русской литературы с древнейших времен по 1925 год
История русской литературы с...
Дмитрий Петрович Святополк-Мирский
История русской литературы с древнейших времен по 1925 год
История русской литературы с...
История, Культурология
The Oxford Book of Latin Verse: From the Earliest Fragments to the End of the Vth Century A.D.
Latin poetry begins where almost all poetry begins—in the rude ceremonial of a primitive people placating an unknown and dreaded spiritual world. The earliest fragments are priestly incantations. In one of these fragments the Salii placate...
The Arabs during a thousand years or more produced one of the richest and most extensive literatures of the world, embracing fine poetry (of the fierce desert life equally with the sophistication of royal courts), belles lettres (learned essays,...
Живопись, альбомы, иллюстрированные каталоги
ART: Everything you need to know about the Greatest Artists and their Works
ART
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE GREATEST ARTISTS AND THEIR WORKS
Susie Hodge
New York • London
© 2010, 2013 by Susie Hodge
INTRODUCTION
Gothic to Early...
The news is everywhere. We can’t stop constantly checking it on our computer screens, but what is this doing to our minds?
We are never really taught how to make sense of the torrent of news we face every day, writes Alain de Botton...
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...
ISBN: 0674049187 | 2014 | | 640 pages |
The way we create and organize knowledge is the theme of From the Tree to the Labyrinth, a major achievement by one of the world's foremost thinkers on language and interpretation. Umberto Eco...