The Medici court painter Botticelli is one of the unequivocal artists of the Italian Renaissance alongside Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael. Favoring feminine portraits, Botticelli stands apart through the finesse of his lines and the...
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История, Культурология
Trans gender liberation. A movement whose time has come. A Marxist view of when and why transgender oppression arose
Trans gender liberation. A movement whose time has come. A Marxist view of when and why transgender oppression...
‘I Read Where I Am’ contains visionary texts about the future of reading and the status of the word. We read anytime and anywhere. We read of screens, we read out on the streets, we read in the office but less and less we read a book at home on...
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...
![Pierre Huyghe [Untitled (Human Mask)]](https://www.rulit.me/data/programs/images/pierre-huyghe-untitled-human-mask_820701.jpg)
**An examination of Pierre Huyghe's post-apocalyptic *Untitled (Human Mask)* , which asks whether our human future may be one of remnants and mimicry.**
Pierre Huyghe's 2014 film *Untitled (Human Mask)* combines images of a post-apocalyptic...
In this collection of parodies, satires and whimsical mini-essays written over the last 30 years, Italian novelist/critic Eco (The Name of the Rose) takes readers on a delightful romp through the absurdities of modern life. A curmudgeonly...
Alice in Chains were among the loudest voices out of Seattle. They were iconic pioneers who mixed grunge and metal in ways that continue to influence today's artists, and theirs is a story of hard work, self-destruction, rising from the ashes, and...
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...
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The Story of Civilization, by husband and wife Will and Ariel Durant, is an 11-volume set of books covering Western history for the general reader.
The series was...
The History of Rome by Theodor Mommsen, translated by William Purdie...