Illustrated with over fifty photos, Civilizing Rituals merges contemporary debates with lively discussion and explores central issues involved in the making and displaying of art as industry and how it is presented to the community. Carol Duncan looks at how nations, institutions and private individuals present art , and how art museums are shaped by cultural, social and polit...(展开全部)

Illustrated with over fifty photos, Civilizing Rituals merges contemporary debates with lively discussion and explores central issues involved in the making and displaying of art as industry and how it is presented to the community. Carol Duncan looks at how nations, institutions and private individuals present art , and how art museums are shaped by cultural, social and polit...(展开全部)

塞斯·诺特博姆（1933— ），现代最杰出的小说家之一（语出A. S. 拜亚特），生于荷兰海牙。他是诗人，也是旅行作家和翻译家，作品中的实验风格最让读者印象深刻。多年来，他遍游欧洲，用文字表达他对生活和自我的思考。他获得过各种文学奖项，包括P. C. 胡福特奖、飞马文学奖、康斯坦丁·惠更斯奖、奥地利欧洲文学国家奖。近年来，诺特博姆的名字经常出现在有可能获诺贝尔文学奖的热门名单中。

塞斯·诺特博姆（1933— ），现代最杰出的小说家之一（语出A. S. 拜亚特），生于荷兰海牙。他是诗人，也是旅行作家和翻译家，作品中的实验风格最让读者印象深刻。多年来，他遍游欧洲，用文字表达他对生活和自我的思考。他获得过各种文学奖项，包括P. C. 胡福特奖、飞马文学奖、康斯坦丁·惠更斯奖、奥地利欧洲文学国家奖。近年来，诺特博姆的名字经常出现在有可能获诺贝尔文学奖的热门名单中。

An "intelligent, incisive" (Washington Post) parable about order and chaos by "one of the greatest modern novelists" (A. S. Byatt), Rituals tells the story of Inni Wintrop, a dabbler who floats comfortably on the open possibilities of life and in the flow of time meets two men who do not. Winner of the Pegasus Prize for Literature. Translated by Adrienne Dixon. A Helen and Kurt...(展开全部)

Media Rituals rethinks our accepted concepts of ritual behavior for a media-saturated age. It connects ritual directly with questions of power, government, and surveillance and explores the ritual space which the media construct and where their power is legitimated. Drawing on sociological and anthropological approaches to the study of ritual, Nick Couldry applies the work of...(展开全部)

Franz Kafka, frustrated with his living quarters and day job, wrote in a letter to Felice Bauer in 1912, “time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life is not possible then one must try to wriggle through by subtle maneuvers.” Kafka is one of 161 inspired—and inspiring—minds, among them, novelis...(展开全部)

More of Mason Currey’s irresistible Daily Rituals, this time exploring the daily obstacles and rituals of women who are artists–painters, composers, sculptors, scientists, filmmakers, and performers. We see how these brilliant minds get to work, the choices they have to make: rebuffing convention, stealing (or secreting away) time from the pull of husbands, wives, children, obl...(展开全部)

Media Rituals rethinks our accepted concepts of ritual behavior for a media-saturated age. It connects ritual directly with questions of power, government, and surveillance and explores the ritual space which the media construct and where their power is legitimated. Drawing on sociological and anthropological approaches to the study of ritual, Nick Couldry applies the work of...(展开全部)

Franz Kafka, frustrated with his living quarters and day job, wrote in a letter to Felice Bauer in 1912, “time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life is not possible then one must try to wriggle through by subtle maneuvers.” Kafka is one of 161 inspired—and inspiring—minds, among them, novelis...(展开全部)