First published to great acclaim in 1996, New Yorker writer and art critic Calvin Tomkins’ biography of the influential artist Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) has been out of print for many years. Now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, is publishing a new and revised edition of the landmark biography to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Duchamp’s first Readymade, “Bicycle Wheel...(展开全部)

[美]卡尔文•汤姆金斯（Calvin Tomkins），《纽约客》杂志撰稿人，艺术评论家。曾经采访过杜尚，撰写《马塞尔·杜尚——午后访谈》（Marcel Duchamp：The Afternoon Interviews）《商人与收藏 : 大都会艺术博物馆创建记》（Merchants and Masterpieces:the Story of the Metropolitan Museum of Art）

Il 1929 nell'immaginario collettivo è associato al crollo finanziario che, giovedì 24 ottobre, colpisce Wall Street prima di abbattersi su tutte le economie mondiali. Anche per il Surrealismo è l'anno di una crisi senza precedenti, di un "big bang" che, se in apparenza sembra segnarne la fine, si rivelerà in realtà all'origine della sua reinvenzione. Il 1929 vede infatti, tra l...(展开全部)

Éric Rohmer set the terms by which people watched, made, and thought about cinema for decades. This exhaustive biography uses personal archives and interviews to enrich our knowledge of Rohmer's public achievements and lesser known interests. Despite an austere approach to life, Rohmer had a voracious appetite for art, culture, and intellectual debate captured vividly in this d...(展开全部)

Revolutionary practitioner, theorist, factional chief, sparkling writer, 'ladies' man' (e.g., his affair with Frieda Kahlo), icon of the Revolution, anti-Jewish Jew, philosopher of everyday life, grand seigneur of his household, father and hunted victim, Trotsky lived a brilliant life in extraordinary times. Robert Service draws on hitherto unexamined archives and on his profou...(展开全部)

'Even the biographical individual is a social category', wrote Adorno. 'It can only be defined in a living context together with others.' In this major new biography, Stefan Muller-Doohm turns this maxim back on Adorno himself and provides a rich and comprehensive account of the life and work of one of the most brilliant minds of the twentieth century. This authoritative biog...(展开全部)

莉利亚·莫里茨·施瓦茨（Lilia Moritz Schwarcz），巴西圣保罗大学人类学教授，普林斯顿大学拉丁美洲研究所西班牙语和葡萄牙语语言和文化系客座教授，多部作品被译为英文。 埃洛伊萨·穆尔热尔·斯塔林（Heloisa Murgel Starling），巴西米纳斯吉拉斯联邦大学教授。 熊芳华，湖北大学外国语学院讲师，该校巴西研究中心研究人员，译有《巴西的强国抱负》。

Shortlisted for the Jabuti Prize for the Best Brazilian Book Published Abroad Since Europeans first reached Brazil in 1500 it has been an unfailing source of extraordinary fascination. More than any other part of the 'New World' it displayed both the greatest beauty and grandeur and witnessed scenes of the most terrible European ferocity. Brazil: A Biography, written by two of ...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 By the time Henry Kissinger was made secretary of state in 1973, he had become, according to the Gallup Poll, the most admired person in America and one of the most unlikely celebrities ever to capture the world's imagination. Yet Kissinger was also reviled by large segments of the American public, ranging from liberal intellectuals to conservative activists. Kissinge...(展开全部)