Having largely given up on a career in film, Edward Yang had been working as a computer engineer for several years when he saw Herzog's "Aguirre, Wrath of God". Inspired to return to film, Yang, along with a handful of other filmmakers including the great Hou Hsiao_hsien, went on to found the Taiwanese New Wave of the early 1980s. Film critic John Anderson's Edward Yang offers ...(展开全部)

《再見楊德昌》於2012年11月面世，出版後短短兩三個月，出版社無預警凍結人事。2014年盛夏，我收到出版社前副總編輯通知，告知庫存餘下七百五十本，若有需要，我可收購，若否，這些書難逃銷毀一途。當時我在臉書上發動搶救庫存的行動，憑藉良好的口碑，短短兩周，所有庫存銷售一空。而本書也在出版後不到兩年即宣告絕版。 2016年，我另外專訪詹宏志、陳湘琪，新增合計三萬餘字的精采內容，並全新修訂、全新設計，預計推出《再見楊德昌》典藏增修版，現已進入裝幀設計階段。 本書特色： ★ 18位影人與文化人，遙念相濡以沫的合作時光 ★ 25萬字訪談，揭開台灣電影史上異常動人的一頁 ★ 全彩大開本印製，200幀珍貴劇照與工作照，深入創作現場，為燦爛光陰留下最美見證 ★《藍色大門》、《行動代號：孫中山》導演易智言、國家電影中心執行長林文淇專文推薦 ★ 詳盡楊德昌生平紀事、電影...(展开全部)

In his works, Hopper poetically expressed the solitude of man confronted to the American way of life as it developed in the 1920s. Inspired by the movies and particularly by the various camera angles

One of the most influential figures in the history of photography, Edward Steichen (1879-1973) was also one of the most precocious. Born in Luxembourg, raised in Wisconsin, and trained as a lithographer's apprentice, Steichen took up photography in his teens and by age twenty-three had created brooding tonalist landscapes and brilliant psychological studies that won the prais...(展开全部)

Uncompromising passion. This title deals with the life and art of Edward Weston. Few photographers have created such a legacy as Edward Weston (1886-1958). After a decade of successfully making photographs with painterly soft-focus techniques, Weston became the key pioneer of the school of precise and sharp presentation, dubbed "Straight Photography." Through the 1920s, '30s, a...(展开全部)

A landmark biography of the charismatic king beloved of fourteenth-century England Edward III (1312–1377) was the most successful European ruler of his age. Reigning for over fifty years, he achieved spectacular military triumphs and overcame grave threats to his authority, from parliamentary revolt to the Black Death. Revered by his subjects as a chivalric dynamo, he initiated...(展开全部)

Edward III ranks as one of England's most successful medieval monarchs, achieving stunning military victories in the Hundred Years War, and managing to unite a fractious realm and nobility behind his rule, bolstered by a new emphasis on chivalry and display. This monumental new biography by Mark Ormrod will surely become the standard work on his reign, providing in a whopping 7...(展开全部)

Edward Hopper is as quintessentially American as Jackson Pollock or Andy Warhol. Like them, his imagery has reached far beyond the realm of art to impact on our culture in the broadest terms, so that we see early twentieth-century America through his work, as much as within it. The painter Charles Burchfield attributed Hopper’s success to his “bold individualism,” declaring tha...(展开全部)