Today we often identify artifacts with the period when they were made. In more traditional cultures, however, such objects as pictures, effigies, and buildings were valued not as much for their chronological age as for their perceived links to the remote origins of religions, nations, monasteries, and families. As a result, Christopher Wood argues, premodern Germans tended not ...(展开全部)

Today we often identify artifacts with the period when they were made. In more traditional cultures, however, such objects as pictures, effigies, and buildings were valued not as much for their chronological age as for their perceived links to the remote origins of religions, nations, monasteries, and families. As a result, Christopher Wood argues, premodern Germans tended not ...(展开全部)

◎ 著者： 斯科特·内瑟索尔（Scott Nethersole）是伦敦大学考陶德艺术学院的高级讲师，主攻15—16世纪的意大利文艺复兴艺术，曾在英国国家美术馆和苏富比拍卖行任职。他的研究主要关注于15世纪佛罗伦萨的艺术和视觉文化，著有《早期文艺复兴时期的佛罗伦萨的艺术与暴力》 《有意的虔信：16世纪之前的意大利祭坛画》。 ◎ 译者： 顾芸培，中国人民大学艺术学院美术学学士，英国伦敦大学学院考古研究所文化遗产研究硕士。

In this groundbreaking and elegantly written study, Joseph Koerner establishes the character of Renaissance art in Germany. Opening up new modes of inquiry for historians of art and early modern Europe, Koerner examines how artists such as Albrecht Durer and Hans Baldung Grien reflected in their masterworks the changing status of the self in sixteenth-century Germany. "[A] dazz...(展开全部)

In this entertaining and enlightening collection David Lodge considers the art of fiction under a wide range of headings, drawing on writers as diverse as Henry James, Martin Amis, Jane Austen and James Joyce. Looking at ideas such as the Intrusive Author, Suspense, the Epistolary Novel, Magic Realism and Symbolism, and illustrating each topic with a passage taken from a classi...(展开全部)

In this entertaining and enlightening collection David Lodge considers the art of fiction under a wide range of headings, drawing on writers as diverse as Henry James, Martin Amis, Jane Austen and James Joyce. Looking at ideas such as the Intrusive Author, Suspense, the Epistolary Novel, Magic Realism and Symbolism, and illustrating each topic with a passage taken from a classi...(展开全部)

Many studies have shown that images—their presence in the daily lives of the faithful, the means used to control them, and their adaptation to secular uses—were at the heart of the Reformation crisis in northern Europe. But the question as it affects the art of Italy has been raised only in highly specialized studies. In this book, Alexander Nagel provides the first truly synt...(展开全部)

【著者简介】 [美] 斯蒂芬妮·波拉斯（Stephanie Porras），曾任教于考陶尔德艺术学院和哥伦比亚大学，现为杜兰大学艺术史教授。她的研究重点是15—17世纪的欧洲北部艺术，著有《彼得·勃鲁盖尔的历史想象》《北方文艺复兴艺术：宫廷、商业与虔信》《第一批病毒式传播的图像：梅尔滕·德·沃斯、安特卫普和早期现代全球》等。 - 【译者简介】 李方木，北京外国语大学文学博士，英语人文社科译者，现任山东师范大学外国语学院副教授，近期出版译著有《文艺复兴时期的威尼斯艺术：从传统到个人主义》《我和我的世界：威廉·福克纳传》等。

Many studies have shown that images—their presence in the daily lives of the faithful, the means used to control them, and their adaptation to secular uses—were at the heart of the Reformation crisis in northern Europe. But the question as it affects the art of Italy has been raised only in highly specialized studies. In this book, Alexander Nagel provides the first truly synt...(展开全部)

The Art of Writing Fiction guides the reader through the processes of creative writing from journal-keeping to editing, offering techniques for stimulating creativity and making language vivid. Readers will master key aspects of fiction such as structure, character, voice and setting. Andrew Cowan provides an insightful introduction that brings his own well-crafted prose style ...(展开全部)