How to Read Medieval Art introduces the art of the European Middle Ages through 50 notable examples from the Metropolitan Museum’s collection, which is one of the most comprehensive in the world. This handsomely illustrated volume includes multi-panel altarpieces, stained glass windows, wooden sculpture, as well as manuscript illuminations, and features iconic masterworks such...(展开全部)

[美]埃里克·谢尔格伦（Eric Kjellgren）是纽约大都会艺术博物馆非洲、大洋洲、美洲艺术部“伊夫林·A. J. 霍尔和约翰·A. 弗里德”助理策展人，在大洋洲艺术方面有着诸多研究，曾著有多本讨论大洋洲艺术和文化的书籍。 ◎ 译者简介 苗纾，自由译者，现居上海。译有《澳大利亚土著艺术》《德拉克洛瓦》等。

[美]埃里克·谢尔格伦（Eric Kjellgren）是纽约大都会艺术博物馆非洲、大洋洲、美洲艺术部“伊夫林·A. J. 霍尔和约翰·A. 弗里德”助理策展人，在大洋洲艺术方面有着诸多研究，曾著有多本讨论大洋洲艺术和文化的书籍。 ◎ 译者简介 苗纾，自由译者，现居上海。译有《澳大利亚土著艺术》《德拉克洛瓦》等。

Eroticism is a truly universal topic, a subject that has always fascinated humankind. Erotic art is telling: It reveals much about an era, a culture, and psychology; it can be sweet, aggressive, soothing, or wild. Erotic Art explores the history of erotic art and presents paintings, drawings, etchings, sculptures, and more by Titian, Picasso, and Keith Haring, by Bernini, Rodin...(展开全部)

弗拉维奥•费布拉罗，于1959年出生于意大利都灵，是一位历史和意大利文学教授，同时也是一位能将历史和艺术及摄影紧密融合的专家。他编著《世界艺术史》等书籍。

'The unexamined life is not worth living'. Plato is the foundational thinker of European speculative thought. He was the first Western writer to undertake a comprehensive and rigorous study of the fundamental categories of reality and value, and few philosophers have escaped his influence or rivaled the depth of his works, many of which have remarkable dramatic power and litera...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Granta's new How to Read series is based on a very simple, but novel, idea. Most beginners' guides to great thinkers and writers offer either potted biographies or condensed summaries of their major works. How to Read, by contrast, brings the reader face to face with the writing itself in the company of an expert guide. Its starting point is that in order to get close...(展开全部)

'I realized it was necessary to demolish everything and start again right from the foundations, if I wanted to establish anything in the sciences that was stable and likely to last' - Rene Descartes. Revered as the 'father of modern philosophy', Descartes is one of the most influential philosophers of all time, but his ideas are also highly controversial and have been subjected...(展开全部)

Montaigne (1533-92) is commonly regarded as an early modern sceptic, standing at the threshold of a new secular way of thinking. He is also known for his ground-breaking exploration of the 'subject' or the 'self'. Terence Cave discusses these and other key aspects of the "Essais" (Montaigne's major work) not as philosophical themes but as features in the mapping of a mental lan...(展开全部)