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Arts & Literature
Welcome To Arts & Literature where we try to answer questions of a scholarly nature.If you are looking for information about books then head to Books & Authors. The Arts section covers all sorts of topics like theatre, exhibitions, paintings and much more.
Apart from Spectator in Hell can anybody recommend any other books which tells the Auschwitz story from the POW's point of view?
Any other Rebus fans seriously disappointed by last night's Rebus? I always thought Ken Stott would make a good Rebus and as a TV drama it was very good, but seemed to bear no relation to the book it...
I recall a poem from my school days 1968-ish referring to a fairground "pharoah" (from Egyptian, therefore Gypsy) owner, riding on a wagon from town to town, who uttered the phrase...
in which 19th century french painting is a bottle of bass india pale ale seen?
Did you see 'Balderdash & Piffle' on BBC 2 yesterday evening? It is a programme, presented by Victoria Coren of 'The Observer', looking into the etymology of words and phrase development.The...
Any idea what a person who collects caledars is called ?
Does anyone know of any living descendants of J. M. Barrie's siblings, or of his wife Mary Ansell's siblings, please? (Neither J. M. Barrie nor Mary Ansell had any children). I am contemplating a...
in which novel by Dick Francis did a character called Bimmo Bognor appear?
Hi, i'm doing my dissertation on the merging of gender roles (women acting like men and vice versa) and i'm using Jane Eyre. I need some ideas of noveks where a female lead role is shown merging...
What genre is this play?
im doing a project on the fluidity of water. and im having trouble thinking of specific artists whos main medium was watercolour. i can think of klimt whos work was quite fluid, but does anyone else...
A couple of years ago,our daughter gave us a christmas candle holder with" to a special Mum and Dad" written around part of the base and the other writing is a sentiment by Charles Dickens--"I will...
I heard a poem on the radio including the words "tunnels connect us" written since the July 7 bombings. I'm trying to find a copy of it, does anybody out there know of it??? Many thanks
Which American novelist dived out of an apartment window in Mexico City to escape a photographer? He acquired the local nickname of Pancho Villa.
who is the English illustrator famous for poster and also for illustrating the yellow book? ?e?r?s?e?
why did someone underline my answers in loopyc question?
Because of death - I have been given a painting of a seascape. Its an oil (canvas is about30 x 40cm and the frame another 10cm) and shows a battle between british galleons and maybe spanish. The...
Who was known as the peasant poet?
I am an ex-pat born UK lived all my life in Oz but back here now x 4 years. I am 50,000 words in to my first big work which I am loving. The thing is its about an Australian coastal town and all the...
any one know of any nice decent new year poems i can txt my friends 2nit thanx and happy new year x