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Марина Уорнер - автор 8 книг. Из известных произведений можно выделить: Индиго, Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale, Indigo. Все книги можно читать онлайн и бесплатно скачивать на нашем портале.
Like Visconti's film The Leopard, this magnificent novel paints in sensuous colours the story of a family. It brings to new life the ancient disparaged south of the Italian peninsula, weakened by emigration, silenced by fascism. According to family legend, David Pittagora died as a result of a duel. His death is the mysterious pivot around which his grand-daughter, an independent modern wo...
From wicked queens, beautiful princesses, elves, monsters, and goblins to giants, glass slippers, poisoned apples, magic keys, and mirrors, the characters and images of fairy tales have cast a spell over readers and audiences, both adults and children, for centuries. These fantastic stories have travelled across cultural borders, and been passed down from generation to generation, ever-changing, r...
Выставка МАН РЭЙ. ПОРТРЕТЫ впервые представляет нашему зрителю фотографии одного из самых известных художников-модернистов XX века. Ман Рэй, американский и французский фотограф, художник и кинорежиссер, родился в Филадельфии в еврейской семье эмигрантов из России. Его творческие поиски связаны с различными направлениями искусства XX века - абстракционизмом, кубизмом, футуристом, дадаизмом, сюрреал...
When a mummy in the Museum of Albion is unpacked it is found to contain a bundle of curious objects and documents which tell of the wanderings of an unknown woman, Leto. On the run, in a far-off era of civil strife, Leto gives birth to twins, shelters with wolves, survives in a desert stronghold as the lover of its commander, stows away on a ship loaded with plundered antiquities and then works...
Phantasmagoria explores ideas of spirit and soul since the Enlightenment; it traces metaphors that have traditionally conveyed the presence of immaterial forces, and reveals how such pagan and Christian imagery about ethereal beings are embedded in
A dazzling history of magical thinking, exploring the power of The Arabian Nights and its impact in the West, and retelling some of its wondrous tales. Magic is not simply a matter of the occult arts, but a whole way of thinking, of dreaming the impossible. As such it has tremendous force in opening the mind to new realms of achievement: imagination precedes the fact. It used to be associated with...
