Western art has long sought to find a perfect method of representing the body. At the same time as we have lost faith in the certainty of the modernist project, the perfect, straight, white body of modernism is now seen as fiction. But what sort of body will take its place? This work explores body images in visual culture, from revolutionary France to contemporary New York. It ...(展开全部)

Winckelmann was not just an historian of considerable stature. He was also a very powerful writer who offered an unusually eloquent account of the aesthetic and imaginative charge of the Greek ideal in art. He is particularly revealing as to the political and the homoerotic, sexual content of the fantasies that gave the antique ideal male nude its larger resonance. This book re...(展开全部)

Winckelmann was not just an historian of considerable stature. He was also a very powerful writer who offered an unusually eloquent account of the aesthetic and imaginative charge of the Greek ideal in art. He is particularly revealing as to the political and the homoerotic, sexual content of the fantasies that gave the antique ideal male nude its larger resonance. This book re...(展开全部)

In this 1999 study, Beat Wyss provides a critical analysis of Hegel's theories of art history. Analogous to his philosophy of history, Hegel viewed the history of art in dialectical terms: with its origins in the Ancient Near East, Western art culminated in Classical Greece, but began its decline already in the Hellenistic period. Yet, as Wyss posits, art refuses its programmed...(展开全部)

Attempting to provide a sociological explanation of the Holocaust, the main theme of this work is the demonstration that the Holocaust has to be understood as deeply involved with the nature of modernity - neither a single event nor a simple outpouring of barbarism. The author discusses what sociology can teach us about the Holocaust, but more particularly concentrates upon the...(展开全部)

Attempting to provide a sociological explanation of the Holocaust, the main theme of this work is the demonstration that the Holocaust has to be understood as deeply involved with the nature of modernity - neither a single event nor a simple outpouring of barbarism. The author discusses what sociology can teach us about the Holocaust, but more particularly concentrates upon the...(展开全部)

Unrivalled teacher. Penetrating comments, suggestions on what to look for, with more than 430 drawings. Basic.

Product Description Figure drawing is the most essential--and the most difficult--of all skills for the artist to learn. In this book, Bruce Hogarth, one of the founders of the School of Visual Arts in New York, introduces his own revolutionary system of figure drawing, which makes it possible to visualize and accurately render the forms of the human body from every conceivable...(展开全部)

In this landmark collection, world-renowned theorists, artists, critics, and curators explore new ways of conceiving the present and understanding art and culture in relation to it. They revisit from fresh perspectives - key issues regarding modernity and post-modernity, including the relationship between art and broader social and political currents as well as important questi...(展开全部)

松田行正：书装设计师。生于1948年。他将书作为艺术品对待，以设计“在书柜或桌上都具有存在意义及表达形式的图书”为理念。在从事图书设计的同时，他还运行着一家小型出版社牛若丸。自1985年起，牛若丸每年只出版一本书，都由松田行正亲自设计。除了书装设计，他还设计了很多建筑标志，执笔撰写了诸多文字作品，制作了大量信息图表。他着迷于研究各种事物的起源，最感兴趣的是文字与符号。他将自己的知识兴趣与设计理念融合，创作出《零ZEЯRO》《加et》《密码》《圆与方》《2的冒险》《偷窥一本书》《一千亿分之一的太阳系+四百万分之一的光速》等一批具有独特美感的书。他在多家设计类杂志上开设专栏，论述设计理念与实践的文章结集形成《开始物语》《图地反转》《眼的冒险》《线的冒险》《时的冒险》《设计的故事》《红色》等书。他的作品曾获得各种设计类奖项，包括日本书籍出版协会理事长奖、讲...(展开全部)