Drawings from the Gulag consists of 130 drawings by Danzig Baldaev (author of the acclaimed Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia series), describing the history, horror and peculiarities of the Gulag system from its inception in 1918. Baldaev's father, a respected ethnographer, taught him techniques to record the tattoos of criminals in St. Petersburg's notorious Kresty prison...(展开全部)

The first book to publish the entirety of Franz Kafka’s graphic output, including more than 100 newly discovered drawings. The year 2019 brought a sensational discovery: hundreds of drawings by the writer Franz Kafka (1883–1924) were found in a private collection that for decades had been kept under lock and key. Until now, only a few of Kafka’s drawings were widely known. Alth...(展开全部)

冈特是英国著名的艺术史论家和作家。在本书中，他以翔实的史料为基础，以拉斐尔前派的兴衰史为主线，用生动形象的文学语言，描绘了“一个实利主义时代中的一些困惑的理想主义者”的悲剧，详尽地评介了这一时期重要的文艺理论家、画家、作家、诗人以及重大的文艺现象、重要作品和艺术流派。本书与《美的历险》、《维多利亚时代的奥林匹斯山》一起，作为著名的“维多利亚时代的艺术潮流”三部曲，勾画出19世纪下半叶到20世纪初英国乃至欧洲的人文思想和社会生活风貌的全景。

Bizarre, whimsical, mocking human and animal fantasies, sometimes mildly erotic. Skizzenbuch I and II. 200 illustrations.

Book Description Drawing on his own incarceration and exile, as well as on evidence from more than 200 fellow prisoners and Soviet archives, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn reveals the entire apparatus of Soviet repression -- the state within the state that ruled all-powerfully. Through truly Shakespearean portraits of its victims -- men, women, and children -- we encounter secret po...(展开全部)

Book Description Drawing on his own incarceration and exile, as well as on evidence from more than 200 fellow prisoners and Soviet archives, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn reveals the entire apparatus of Soviet repression -- the state within the state that ruled all-powerfully. Through truly Shakespearean portraits of its victims -- men, women, and children -- we encounter secret po...(展开全部)

The Gulag—the vast array of Soviet concentration camps—was a system of repression and punishment whose rationalized evil and institutionalized inhumanity were rivaled only by the Holocaust. The Gulag entered the world’s historical consciousness in 1972, with the publication of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s epic oral history of the Soviet camps, The Gulag Archipelago . Since the col...(展开全部)

The Gulag—a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal prisoners—was a system of repression and punishment that terrorized the entire society, embodying the worst tendencies of Soviet communism. In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag, from its origins in the Rus...(展开全部)