作者简介：迈克尔·弗雷德（Michael Fried,1939- ），杰出的批评家、艺术史家，美国霍普金斯大学人文学科波恩讲席教授。20世纪60年代，他凭借对极简艺术的深刻批判奠定其优秀批评家的地位（其批评文章集结为《艺术与物性：论文与评论集》）；70年代后，他转入艺术史研究，著述丰富，其中《专注性与剧场性：狄德罗时代的绘画与观众》《库尔贝的写实主义》《马奈的现代主义》构成了“现代主义前史”三部曲；并在最近十几年重返当代艺术批评，直面影像艺术的最新现象。其批评和艺术史研究不仅在艺术学界广受关注，并且也为哲学、美学、思想史等领域内的学者所重视，甚至还反哺当代的艺术实践（著名摄影师杰夫·沃尔就深受启发），被公认为美国最具影响力的在世批评家、艺术史家之一。 译者简介：张晓剑（1977- ），温州大学美术与设计学院副教授，浙江大学博士，主要从事中西艺术史和西...(展开全部)

A spirited biography of the prophetic and sympathetic philosopher who helped build the foundations of the modern world. Denis Diderot is often associated with the decades-long battle to bring the world's first comprehensive Encyclopédie into existence. But his most daring writing took place in the shadows. Thrown into prison for his atheism in 1749, Diderot decided to reserve h...(展开全部)

In this encounter between one of the 20th century’s greatest minds and an artist fundamental to the development of modern art, French philosopher Michel Foucault explores Edouard Manet’s importance in the overthrow of traditional values in painting. . Originally delivered in Tunis in 1971 as part of a conference on Manet and here translated into English for the first time, this...(展开全部)

The age of Baroque witnessed the construction of some magnificent buildings, but what did the work of architects such as Bernini, Guarini and Wren have to do with Descartes, Galileo and Newton? In this book, George L. Hersey explores the ways in which Baroque architecture, with its shapes and experimentation with classical forms, reflects the scientific thinking of the time. He...(展开全部)

The age of Baroque witnessed the construction of some magnificent buildings, but what did the work of architects such as Bernini, Guarini and Wren have to do with Descartes, Galileo and Newton? In this book, George L. Hersey explores the ways in which Baroque architecture, with its shapes and experimentation with classical forms, reflects the scientific thinking of the time. He...(展开全部)

How the history of technological revolutions can help us better understand economic and political polarization in the age of automation From the Industrial Revolution to the age of artificial intelligence, The Technology Trap takes a sweeping look at the history of technological progress and how it has radically shifted the distribution of economic and political power among soc...(展开全部)

How the history of technological revolutions can help us better understand economic and political polarization in the age of automation From the Industrial Revolution to the age of artificial intelligence, The Technology Trap takes a sweeping look at the history of technological progress and how it has radically shifted the distribution of economic and political power among soc...(展开全部)

How Amazon has changed literature As the story goes: Jeff Bezos left a lucrative job to start something new in Seattle only after a deeply affecting reading of Kazuo Ishiguro's Remains of the Day. But if a novel gave usAmazon.com, what has Amazon meant for the novel? In Everything and Less, acclaimed critic Mark McGurl discovers a dynamic scene of cultural experimentation in li...(展开全部)

Theirs was a world of exploration and experimentation, of movement and growth - and in this, the thinkers of the Renaissance, poets and scientists alike, followed their countrymen into uncharted territory and unthought space. A book that takes us to the very heart of the enterprise of the Renaissance, this closely focused but far-reaching work by the distinguished scholar Angus...(展开全部)

The professions of architect and engineer, which had maintained very close links since the time of the Renaissance, became increasingly isolated from one another in France during the course of the eighteenth century, the 'Age of the Enlightenment'. This book analyses the meaning of this gradual mutual isolation, the consequences of which can still be felt at a variety of differ...(展开全部)