This grand, ambitious book is about a way of building that for centuries dominated the making of monumental architecture - yet now not only is it lost as practice, but knowledge of its very existence is also lost. In the pre-modern age in Europe, the architect built not merely with imagination, brick and mortar, but with time, using vast quantities of duration as the means to e...(展开全部)

As we spend more and more of our time staring at the screens of movies, televisions, computers, and handheld devices--"windows" full of moving images, texts, and icons--how the world is framed has become as important as what is in the frame. In The Virtual Window, Anne Friedberg examines the window as metaphor, as architectural component, and as an opening to the dematerialized...(展开全部)

As we spend more and more of our time staring at the screens of movies, televisions, computers, and handheld devices--"windows" full of moving images, texts, and icons--how the world is framed has become as important as what is in the frame. In The Virtual Window, Anne Friedberg examines the window as metaphor, as architectural component, and as an opening to the dematerialized...(展开全部)

Incredible discoveries from the fringes of the universe to the inner workings of our minds—all from nothing! It turns out that almost nothing is as curious—or as enlightening—as, well, nothing. What is nothingness? Where can it be found? The writers of the world's top-selling science magazine investigate—from the big bang, dark energy, and the void to superconductors, vestigial...(展开全部)

Zero, zip, nada, zilch. It's all too easy to ignore the fascinating possibilities of emptiness and non-existence, and we may well wonder what there is to say about nothing. But scientists have known for centuries that nothing is the key to understanding absolutely everything, from why particles have mass to the expansion of the universe - so without nothing we'd be precisely no...(展开全部)

Steinberg argues in this work that the artists regarded the deliberate exposure of Christ's genitalia as an affirmation of kinship with the human condition. Christ's lifelong virginity, understood as potency under check, and the first offer of blood in the circumcision, both required acknowledgment of the genital organ. More than exercises in realism, these unabashed images und...(展开全部)

Steinberg argues in this work that the artists regarded the deliberate exposure of Christ's genitalia as an affirmation of kinship with the human condition. Christ's lifelong virginity, understood as potency under check, and the first offer of blood in the circumcision, both required acknowledgment of the genital organ. More than exercises in realism, these unabashed images und...(展开全部)

Michael Baxandell is Professor of the History of the Classical Tradition, Warburg Institute, University of London.

约翰·拉斯金（John Ruskin，1819～1900），英国作家、艺术家、艺术评论家，在绘画、建筑等方面造诣颇深。1843年，他因《现代画家》一书而成名，著作有《建筑学七盏明灯》《建筑与绘画》《威尼斯的石头》等。 拉斯金是维多利亚时代艺术美学的重要人物，他的艺术评论代表了那个时代艺术的欣赏品味，被称作“美的使者”。同时，他也是一位文学家，对甘地、托尔斯泰和普鲁斯特有重要影响。 钟娜， 中英双语作者、译者，现居纽约。译有萨莉·鲁尼小说《聊天记录》《正常人》、比利·奥卡拉汉短篇小说集《我们所失去的，我们所抛下的》。