菲利普·胡克 ●苏富比拍卖行资深董事、印象派与现代艺术部高级总监，拥有40余年的艺术品交易与拍卖专业经验。2012年，在胡克先生主持的苏富比年度拍卖会上，创造了截至当时世界拍卖史上书画艺术品的最高成交价——著名画家爱德华‧蒙克的经典作品《呐喊》以1.19亿美元成交。 ●作为作家，胡克先生著作颇丰，目前已著有五部小说和两部艺术史著作。其中《苏富比的早餐》荣获《星期日泰晤士报》《旁观者》《金融时报》《卫报》《星期日邮报》等媒体评选出的“年度最佳图书”之一。 ●1978年到2003年间，胡克先生担任BBC电视节目《古董巡回秀》的常驻嘉宾，这是BBC有史以来播出周期最长的节目之一，多国电视台均有翻拍。

菲利普·胡克 ●苏富比拍卖行资深董事、印象派与现代艺术部高级总监，拥有40余年的艺术品交易与拍卖专业经验。2012年，在胡克先生主持的苏富比年度拍卖会上，创造了截至当时世界拍卖史上书画艺术品的最高成交价——著名画家爱德华‧蒙克的经典作品《呐喊》以1.19亿美元成交。 ●作为作家，胡克先生著作颇丰，目前已著有五部小说和两部艺术史著作。其中《苏富比的早餐》荣获《星期日泰晤士报》《旁观者》《金融时报》《卫报》《星期日邮报》等媒体评选出的“年度最佳图书”之一。 ●1978年到2003年间，胡克先生担任BBC电视节目《古董巡回秀》的常驻嘉宾，这是BBC有史以来播出周期最长的节目之一，多国电视台均有翻拍。

杜鲁门·卡波特，美国著名作家，两次获得欧•亨利短篇小说奖。1924年生于新奥尔良，17岁受雇于《纽约客》开始写作生涯。1948年处女作《别的声音，别的房间》获得世界性的成功。1958年，奠定其大师地位的杰作《蒂凡尼的早餐》出版。1966年，完成了巅峰之作《冷血》。1984年8月25日晚，敏感、复杂和饱受争议的卡波特，因用药过度，猝死于友人家中，终年59岁。

Since its first publication this book has been hailed as the most up-to-date and wide-ranging history of art ever published in a single volume. This quote from Andrew Graham Dixon describes the book: 'Spanning continents and millennia, ranging from man's earliest cave paintings to the works of Picasso and beyond, this is a hugely ambitious book. But thanks to the breadth of the...(展开全部)

From Michael Cunningham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Hours," comes this widely praised novel of two boyhood friends: Jonathan, lonely, introspective, and unsure of himself; and Bobby, hip, dark, and inarticulate. In New York after college, Bobby moves in with Jonathan and his roommate, Clare, a veteran of the city's erotic wars. Bobby and Clare fall in love, scutt...(展开全部)

From Michael Cunningham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Hours," comes this widely praised novel of two boyhood friends: Jonathan, lonely, introspective, and unsure of himself; and Bobby, hip, dark, and inarticulate. In New York after college, Bobby moves in with Jonathan and his roommate, Clare, a veteran of the city's erotic wars. Bobby and Clare fall in love, scutt...(展开全部)

A new history of Roman art and archaeology, from its very beginnings in Etruscan art to the adoption of Christianity.

Celebrated for its abundant illustrations and accessible voice, Art & Archaeology of the Greek World arrives in its second edition with more coverage of the earliest Bronze Age and latest Hellenistic periods, and increased archaeological context; the picture of ancient Greek art is expanded to help readers better understand how the subject connects to, and reflects, the histori...(展开全部)

Breakfast Of Champions is vintage Vonnegut. One of his favorite characters, aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. The result is murderously funny satire as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.