The Art Under the Influence. Complete Analysis of the Role of Alcohol in Art New Design

Reissue of the bestseller with a new preface by the author! Semi-finalist of the «Lyceum-2019» award, blogger, poet, young actor Maxim Zhegalin passionately analyzes the role of alcohol in world art and culture. The author, with a keen sense of... humor, provocatively and directly describes who, how, and why used alcohol in visual arts—from antiquity with its Dionysian and Bacchic cults to the masterpieces of Van Gogh and Picasso. - Which writers, including Shakespeare and Bukowski, loved to indulge in a couple of glasses and how did it reflect in their literary creativity? - What wine is consumed in cinema, and which composers created their major works only under the influence? This and much more in the reissue of the bestseller «The Art Under the Influence. Complete Analysis of the Role of Alcohol in Art» by Maxim Zhegalin.