Chroma is a meditation on the color spectrum by the celebrated late artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman. From the explosions of image and color in In The Shadow of the Sun, The Last of England, The Garden and Wittgenstein, to the somber blacks of his collages and tar paintings, Jarman has consistently used color in unprecedented ways, making his ideas on the subject of interest t...(展开全部)

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In Jason Mott’s Hell of a Book, a Black author sets out on a cross-country publicity tour to promote his bestselling novel. That storyline drives Hell of a Book and is the scaffolding of something much larger and urgent: since Mott’s novel also tells the story of Soot, a young Black boy living in a rural town in the recent past, and The Kid, a possibly imaginary child who appe...(展开全部)

In A Book of Waves Stefan Helmreich examines ocean waves as forms of media that carry ecological, geopolitical, and climatological news about our planet. Drawing on ethnographic work with oceanographers and coastal engineers in the Netherlands, the United States, Australia, Japan, and Bangladesh, Helmreich details how scientists at sea and in the lab apprehend waves’ materialit...(展开全部)

Though a tireless explorer of distant cultures, for more than forty years Cees Nooteboom has also been returning to Menorca, "the island of the wind", and it is in his house there, with a study full of books and a garden taken over by cacti and many insects, that the 533 days of writing take place. The result is not a diary, nor a set of movements of the soul organised by dates...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

The Secret Lives of Colour tells the unusual stories of the 75 most fascinating shades, dyes and hues. From blonde to ginger, the brown that changed the way battles were fought to the white that protected against the plague, Picasso's blue period to the charcoal on the cave walls at Lascaux, acid yellow to kelly green, and from scarlet women to imperial purple, these surprising...(展开全部)

保罗·奥斯特，1947年出生于新泽西的纽瓦克市，集小说家、诗人、剧作家、译者、电影导演等多重身份于一身，被视为是美国当代最勇于创新的小说家之一。他1947年出生于新泽西州的纽渥克市，从哥伦比亚大学毕业后曾在法国生活数年。年轻时过着漂泊无定的生活，不断尝试各种工作，甚至曾参加舞团的排练，只因为“观看男男女女在空间中移动让他充满了陶醉感”。 主要作品有小说《纽约三部曲》、《幻影书》、《在地图结束的地方》、《命运之音》、《海怪》以及回忆录《孤独及其所创造的》等，曾获获法国美第奇文学奖，美国约翰·克林顿文学杰出贡献奖，西班牙阿斯图里亚斯王子文学奖，作品被翻译成30种文字，他也是每年冲击诺贝尔文学奖的有力人选之一。 他编剧并导演的电影作品有《烟》、《面有忧色》和《桥上的露露》，其中《烟》在1996年获得柏林电影节银熊奖和最佳编剧奖，并受邀成为1997年戛纳影展...(展开全部)

吉姆•谢泼德（Jim Shepard），美国当代短篇小说大师，威廉姆斯学院创意写作课教授，已创作七部长篇小说及五部短篇小说集，作品常见于《格兰塔》《大西洋月刊》《纽约客》《巴黎评论》等重要文学期刊。小说集《正如你了解的那样》获得美国短篇小说奖（Story Prize），并入围美国国家图书奖。作品主题常围绕“道德被动的代价”，通过细查大量历史档案及非虚构材料，对历史人物事件进行生动还原。 《恶童安伦》是他最新也是最著名的长篇作品，其中的关键人物医生科扎克和特雷布林卡集中营均有历史原型。在波兰国宝级导演安杰依·瓦伊达的同名纪录片中，科扎克被塑造成无惧生死的基督式形象，为争取儿童的生存与权利奉献了毕生的心力。

Exodus is the second book of the Hebrew Bible, but it may rank first in lasting cultural importance. It is here that the classic biblical themes of oppression and redemption, of human enslavement and divine salvation, are most dramatically expressed. Joel Baden tells the story of this influential and enduring book, tracing how its famous account of the Israelites’ journey to th...(展开全部)