Cindy Sherman's "Untitled Film Stills," a series of 69 black-and-white photographs created between 1977 and 1980, is widely seen as one of the most original and influential achievements in recent art. Witty, provocative and searching, this lively catalogue of female roles inspired by the movies crystallizes widespread concerns in our culture, examining the ways we shape our per...(展开全部)

Cindy Sherman's Untitled Film Stills, a series of 69 black-and-white photographs created between 1977 and 1980, is widely seen as one of the most original and influential achievements in recent art. Witty, provocative and searching, this lively catalogue of female roles inspired by the movies crystallizes widespread concerns in our culture, examining the ways we shape our perso...(展开全部)

辛迪·舍曼（Cindy Sherman）1954年生于美国新泽西，现在纽约居住。 辛迪·舍曼说：“尽管我从来都不承认我的作品具有女权主义思想，或是政治宣言，但事实上，我的每一件作品都是以一个处在现实文化中的女性角度进行观察的结果。”她曾经郑重的声明，她的摄影作品应该归属于观念艺术范畴。观念主要表现在对作品的分步处理而形成的系列之中。无论她的作品如何变化，但表现的主题几乎是相同的，如表现社交活动中的女人和全神贯注于绘画的自己。舍曼早期的成名作品是80年代创作的一系列“摄影静物”，表现了艺术家自己倘徉在对往事的桩桩回忆中。技术手法和内容全部是50、60年代的流行风格。随后，舍曼全身心地投入了彩色摄影作品的拍摄之中，其中最重要的作品是应纽约《艺术论坛》杂志的邀请而创作的。大幅作品占据了杂志的两个整版，重复地表现了艺术家的卧姿和脸部特写。1983年，辛迪·舍...(展开全部)

Juergen Teller was born in Erlangen, Germany, in 1964. In the mid-80s he moved to London, where he continues to live and work for magazines including I.D., The Face, Arena, index, and W. Counted among his well-known clients are Marc Jacobs, Helmut Lang, Calvin Klein, Yves Saint Laurent, and Commes des Garcons. His photographs have been regularly exhibited since 1992, and have b...(展开全部)

Juergen Teller was born in Erlangen, Germany, in 1964. In the mid-80s he moved to London, where he continues to live and work for magazines including I.D., The Face, Arena, index, and W. Counted among his well-known clients are Marc Jacobs, Helmut Lang, Calvin Klein, Yves Saint Laurent, and Commes des Garcons. His photographs have been regularly exhibited since 1992, and have b...(展开全部)

The Complete Prose of Woody Allen is a collection of fifty-two pieces of hilarious writing which firmly establish the author in the tradition of Groucho Marx and James Thurber. Woody Allen's prose displays his versatility and virtuosity with the written word, and his special brand of humour. "If Allen had lived in Augustan England scholars would now be considering him alongside...(展开全部)

The recent publication by New Directions of five Lispector novels revealed to legions of new readers her darkness and dazzle. Now, for the first time in English, are all the stories that made her a Brazilian legend: from teenagers coming into awareness of their sexual and artistic powers to humdrum housewives whose lives are shattered by unexpected epiphanies to old people who ...(展开全部)

In 1572, Montaigne retired to his estates in order to devote himself to leisure, reading and reflection. There he wrote his constantly expanding 'essays', inspired by the ideas he found in books from his library and his own experience. He discusses subjects as diverse as war-horses and cannibals, poetry and politics, sex and religion, love and friendship, ecstasy and experience...(展开全部)