Literature on The Culturium

Nov 10 2015

Arseny Tarkovsky: Life, Life

Arseny Tarkovsky.
Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

How a father’s poetry inspired a son’s cinematic art

Nov 05 2015

Jean Cocteau: The Art of Cinema

Jean Cocteau.
Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

Capturing the soul of the artist on celluloid

Oct 27 2015

Alexandra David-Néel: My Journey to Lhasa

Alexandra David Néel.
Image: Public Domain

How a woman’s quest for solitude led her to Tibet’s forbidden city

Oct 22 2015

Rainer Maria Rilke: Letters to a Young Poet

Rainer Maria Rilke.
Image: Public Domain

To write is to live and to live is to write

Oct 15 2015

Alan Jacobs: Heart of Heart’s Chalice of Love’s Fire

Paula Marvelly, Alan Jacobs.
Image: [CC BY-SA 4.0] The Culturium

How the Victorian poet Swinburne inspired a Postmodern Formalist’s work

Sep 07 2015

Sappho: The Tenth Muse

John William Godward, In the Days of Sappho.
Image: Public Domain

The six types of Greek love and why Plato revered a female poet from Lesbos