While it is widely recognized that the advanced architecture of the 1970s left a legacy of experimentation and theoretical speculation as intense as any in architecture's history, there has been no general theory of that ethos. Now, in Architecture's Desire, K. Michael Hays writes an account of the "late avant-garde" as an architecture systematically twisting back on itself, po...(展开全部)

While it is widely recognized that the advanced architecture of the 1970s left a legacy of experimentation and theoretical speculation as intense as any in architecture's history, there has been no general theory of that ethos. Now, in Architecture's Desire, K. Michael Hays writes an account of the "late avant-garde" as an architecture systematically twisting back on itself, po...(展开全部)

彼得·比格尔（Peter Burger），1936年生，1971年起任德国不来梅大学法国文学与比较文学教授。著有《先锋派理论》、《现代主义的衰弱》、《唯心主义美学批判》、《中介一接受一功能》（论文集）和《艺术体制：现代德国文化与文学》（与克丽斯塔·比格尔合著）等。

彼得·比格尔（Peter Burger），1936年生，1971年起任德国不来梅大学法国文学与比较文学教授。著有《先锋派理论》、《现代主义的衰弱》、《唯心主义美学批判》、《中介一接受一功能》（论文集）和《艺术体制：现代德国文化与文学》（与克丽斯塔·比格尔合著）等。

From Shuzo Oshimi, the creator of Blood on the Tracks, The Flowers of Evil and Happiness. I just want to see it! High schooler Yumeko is your ordinary high school girl except she's obsessed with seeing the male body part in real life. Determined, Yumeko decides to join the art club at school.

For this second edition of his guide to the more adventurous evolutions of music since 1945, Reginald Smith Brindle has added a new chapter reviewing developments in the decade since the book first appeared. He discusses the decline of experimentalism and the reaction against increasing cerebralism and complexity as variously illustrated by the more recent works of Stockhausen,...(展开全部)

Back in the USSR: 250 film posters capture the cultural energy of the pre-Stalin era At the intersection of the visual, graphic, and cinematic arts, film posters are a unique and thrilling record of a particular cultural Zeitgeist. This book brings together 250 posters from the pre-Stalin Soviet Union of the 1920s and 1930s to explore the energy and invention of this period, be...(展开全部)

This work is a philosophical intervention into contemporary cultural theory challenges the terms of its understanding of time and history. If Aristotle sought to understand time through change, might we not reverse the procedure and seek to understand change through time? Once we do this, argues Peter Osborne, it soon becomes clear that ideas such as avant-garde, modern, postmo...(展开全部)