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作者： 加布丽埃勒 - 苏珊·巴尔博·德维尔纳夫（1695—1755）出生于法国巴黎。她的作品受到同时代作家的影响，特别是《灰姑娘》的作者夏尔·佩罗和首位提出“fairy tales”（神话故事）之说的奥诺伊公爵夫人。加布丽埃勒 - 苏珊一生出版了多部小说，而她最广为人知的身份是《美女与野兽》的原作者。 绘者： 米娜利马（MinaLima）是一家一流的平面设计工作室，它的创始人是米拉波拉·米娜（Miraphora Mina）和爱德华多·利马（Eduardo Lima）。他们曾为《哈利·波特》系列电影工作了十年，为该系列电影打造了一种独特的视觉图像风格。在伦敦设立工作室以后，他们继续用视觉艺术语言来讲故事，设计的领域包括书籍装帧、包装设计以及为电影创作图形道具。他们曾参与的电影有《理发师陶德》（2007 年）、《金色罗盘》（2007 年）、《模仿游戏》...(展开全部)

Reggie and Nigel Heath are relatively close in age, but worlds apart in personality. The older of the two brothers, Reggie is a successful attorney with charisma to spare. Nigel has always struggled to step out of his shadow. When Reggie leases space in an office building on London's Baker Street, he finds that the paperwork comes with an odd stipulation: his firm must receive ...(展开全部)

What does a Black burlesque star have to do with some of the most enduring and passionate ideas in modern aesthetic theory? Josephine Baker emerges in this previously untold story as a principal figure in the drama behind the making of Euro-American modernism. Instead of seeing her nude performances as a primitivist given, the author argues that Baker’s skin was central to heat...(展开全部)

Should western beauty practices, ranging from lipstick to labiaplasty, be included within the United Nations understandings of harmful traditional/cultural practices? By examining the role of common beauty practices in damaging the health of women, creating sexual difference, and enforcing female deference, this book argues that they should. In the 1970s feminists criticized p...(展开全部)

Should western beauty practices, ranging from lipstick to labiaplasty, be included within the United Nations understandings of harmful traditional/cultural practices? By examining the role of common beauty practices in damaging the health of women, creating sexual difference, and enforcing female deference, this book argues that they should. In the 1970s feminists criticized p...(展开全部)

Should western beauty practices, ranging from lipstick to labiaplasty, be included within the United Nations understandings of harmful traditional/cultural practices? By examining the role of common beauty practices in damaging the health of women, creating sexual difference, and enforcing female deference, this book argues that they should. In the 1970s feminists criticiz...(展开全部)

In this volume, the Italian novelist and playwright Umberto Eco aims to present a learned summary of mediaeval aesthetic ideas. Juxtaposing theology and science, poetry and mysticism, Eco explores the relationship that existed between the aesthetic theories and the artistic experience and practice of mediaeval culture.

In this volume, the Italian novelist and playwright Umberto Eco aims to present a learned summary of mediaeval aesthetic ideas. Juxtaposing theology and science, poetry and mysticism, Eco explores the relationship that existed between the aesthetic theories and the artistic experience and practice of mediaeval culture.

Through the figure of Josephine Baker, Second Skin tells the story of an unexpected yet enduring intimacy between the invention of a modernist style and the theatricalization of black skin at the turn of the twentieth century. Stepping outside of the platitudes surrounding this iconic figure, Anne A. Cheng argues that Baker's famous nakedness must be understood within larger ph...(展开全部)