In 1858, Alfred Russel Wallace, aged thirty-five, weak with malaria, isolated in the Spice Islands, wrote to Charles Darwin: he had, he said excitedly, worked out a theory of natural selection. Darwin was aghast - his work of decades was about to be scooped. Within two weeks, his outline and Wallace's paper were presented jointly in London. A year later, with Wallace still on t...(展开全部)

In 1858, Alfred Russel Wallace, aged thirty-five, weak with malaria, isolated in the Spice Islands, wrote to Charles Darwin: he had, he said excitedly, worked out a theory of natural selection. Darwin was aghast - his work of decades was about to be scooped. Within two weeks, his outline and Wallace's paper were presented jointly in London. A year later, with Wallace still on t...(展开全部)

A Beautiful Monograph Illuminating the Iconic Images of one of the Most Central and Influential Photographers of the Twentieth Century. Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) was a key figure in America's acceptance of photography as a serious form of artistic expression. As founder of the Photo Secession movement and editor of the influential Camera Work, he is one of the most im...(展开全部)

"The assembly of pieces of i-- lm to create fright is the essential part of my job, just as a painter would, by putting certain colours together, create evil on canvas." Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) was one of the most interviewed directors in the history of i-- lm. Among the hundreds of interviews he gave, those in this collection catch him at key moments of transition in his ...(展开全部)

The first book after Doris' Nobel Prize takes her back to her childhood in Southern Africa and the lives, both fictional and factual, that her parents lead. 'I think my father's rage at the trenches took me over, when I was very young, and has never left me. Do children feel their parents' emotions? Yes, we do, and it is a legacy I could have done without. What is the use of i...(展开全部)

作者简介： 彼得•雷德（Peter Rader），毕业于哈佛大学。作为一名电影制作人和编剧，他曾为所有主要的好莱坞电影制片厂开发电影项目。现与妻子和两个儿子居住在美国洛杉矶。 能够将所有这些研究结果整合成一位传奇人物的第一部完整传记，我深感荣幸。他不但帮助我们更加深入地理解我们身处其中的世界，也阐明了生而为人的真义所在。 ——彼得•雷德 译者简介： 潘源，博士，副研究员。曾在北京科技大学英语系任教近十年，现任职于中国艺术研究院文化发展战略研究中心。主要译著有《弗洛伊德式的身体——精神分析与艺术》《冷山》《梦锁危情》《天书》等。

作者简介： 彼得•雷德（Peter Rader），毕业于哈佛大学。作为一名电影制作人和编剧，他曾为所有主要的好莱坞电影制片厂开发电影项目。现与妻子和两个儿子居住在美国洛杉矶。 能够将所有这些研究结果整合成一位传奇人物的第一部完整传记，我深感荣幸。他不但帮助我们更加深入地理解我们身处其中的世界，也阐明了生而为人的真义所在。 ——彼得•雷德 译者简介： 潘源，博士，副研究员。曾在北京科技大学英语系任教近十年，现任职于中国艺术研究院文化发展战略研究中心。主要译著有《弗洛伊德式的身体——精神分析与艺术》《冷山》《梦锁危情》《天书》等。

A revered solo performer, Alfred Brendel appears regularly with the world's great orchestras and , since the 1950s, he has been a prolific recording artist. Here he brings the clarity and originality of expression that characterize his performances to the printed pages. Whether discussing Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Liszt, Schoenberg, or other pianists, his thoughts and ...(展开全部)

Few individuals have exerted as profound an influence on 20th-century American art and culture as Alfred Stieglitz (1846-1964). This two-volume boxed set is the catalogue of the Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, the most complete Stieglitz holding in the world, donated to the gallery by his widow, the artist Georgia O'Keeffe....(展开全部)