弗朗索瓦兹·巴尔伯·嘎尔，曾在索邦大学（Sorbonne）和卢浮宫学院（Ecole du Louvre）学习历史和艺术，随后在后者任教。与此同时，她还管理“如何欣赏画作协会（CORETA,Comment Regarder un Tableau, www.coreta.org）”，举行多场讲座。她定期参加管理专业的研讨会，分享她在图像分析、广告和市场营销方面的经验。公司日程出版社（Editions del’Agence de l’Empresa）出版了一本她的文章集锦——《目光》（La Mirada ）、（塞维利亚，2000年）。她还曾就雕塑家汤姆·卡尔（Tom Carr）撰写过多篇论文（《回声与汇聚》（Echos et convergences ），塞雷现代艺术博物馆（musée d’Art moderne de Céret），2002年《对照》（V...(展开全部)

Which of us, when finding ourselves in the presence of a painting, has not sensed that we lack the keys to decipher it? We feel an emotional response, but the work still seems to evade our understanding. Francoise Barbe-Gall combines a nuanced understanding of the way viewers respond to paintings with a rich knowledge of their context and circumstances of their creation. The re...(展开全部)

安·霍纳迪（Ann Hornaday），《华盛顿邮报》首席电影评论家，2008年荣获普利策新闻奖 “最佳评论人”提名。曾是著名女权主义者格洛丽亚·斯泰纳姆（自传《在路上：我生活的故事》2017年在国内出版）的助理。从业三十多年以来，采访过李安、马丁·斯科塞斯、史蒂文·斯皮尔伯格、加里·奥德曼、卡西·阿弗莱克、蒂尔达·温斯顿等众多影视界知名人士，本书的撰写得到包括他们在内的32位奥斯卡奖得主的帮助和支持。亚马逊读者评价她是“继罗杰·伊伯特之后可相信、跟随”的影评人。

Beautifully illustrated with some of the world’s greatest pictures, from cave paintings and Roman mosaics to Picasso and Damien Hirst, this affordable guide explains the art of looking at and understanding pictures, equipping the reader with the vision and tools to approach any museum picture with confidence. Looking at pictures can be an exciting or moving experience, but some...(展开全部)

Looking at pictures can be enjoyable, exciting or moving. Some pictures are easily appreciated at first glance, but others - often the most rewarding - require some explanation before they can be fully understood. This clearly written and enjoyable book is intended both to increase pleasure and stimulate thought and tackles many aspects of looking at paintings. Starting with fa...(展开全部)

Rarely has anyone photographed reality in such an unprettified way as Boris Mikhailov. He captures the unadorned and the natural; in pictures devoid of aesthetic exhaltation, he concentrates on people and their living conditions. On his journeys through Russia, Germany, and his Ukrainian homeland, Mikhailov has equally observed the poor, the well-to-do, the outcasts, and the ho...(展开全部)

Rarely has anyone photographed reality in such an unprettified way as Boris Mikhailov. He captures the unadorned and the natural; in pictures devoid of aesthetic exhaltation, he concentrates on people and their living conditions. On his journeys through Russia, Germany, and his Ukrainian homeland, Mikhailov has equally observed the poor, the well-to-do, the outcasts, and the ho...(展开全部)

This profoundly illuminating, entertaining book could well change the way we "read" the visual world around us, and certainly help open our eyes and minds to its astonishing riches. The language in which we speak about art has become steadily more abstruse, a jargon that only art critics and con-artists can understand, though for thousands of years this was not the case. Today,...(展开全部)

If you would like to become a truly great trader --either for yourself or for a proprietary trading firm, this book will help you get there. It is the only book of its kind, based on one of most successful trader training programmes--and the closest thing to signing up for a "trader boot camp". You can watch new traders execute trades and then learn by following their expert in...(展开全部)