Throughout his career, the influential Canadian art photographer Jeff Wall has written periodically on a variety of subjects--from the work of his Vancouver colleagues, to the art of such diverse figures as Edouard Manet, On Kawara, and Dan Graham, to the important role of photography in Conceptual art. Wall's own work takes center stage in the many interviews he has granted ov...(展开全部)

Jeff Wall is foremost among the artists who since the late 1960s have brought photography to the forefront of contemporary art. This revised and expanded edition of the definitive monograph on the Canadian artist, first published in 1996, includes a new fully illustrated essay on Wall's recent work by the French historian of art and photography Jean-François Chevrier, in a...(展开全部)

Jeff Wall (b.1946) adopts the nineteenth-century poet Baudelaire's famous description of one of his contemporaries as 'a painter of modern life' to describe his own very different work: huge transparencies mounted on to light boxes that diffuse a brilliant glow of white light evenly through his photographs of contemporary urban scenes and 'constructed' social situations. Wall i...(展开全部)

Nadine Gordimer has written of J.M. Coetzee that his "vision goes to the nerve-centre of being. What he finds there is more than most people will ever know about themselves, and he conveys it with a brilliant writer's mastery of tension and elegance". "Doubling the Point" takes the reader to the center of that vision. These essays and interviews, documenting Coetzee's longtime ...(展开全部)

A.S.拜厄特（1936— ），英国小说家、诗人和文学批评家，英国皇家文学协会会员。代表作包括小说《占有》、《天使与昆虫》、《花园中的处女》等长篇小说，以及《糖和其他故事》、《夜莺眼中的巨灵》等短篇小说集。曾凭借《占有》获得1990年布克奖，并于2008年被《泰晤士报》评为“1945年来英国最伟大的五十名作家”之一。

In recent years many novelists have become increasingly interested in history as fiction and fiction as history. In her powerful opening essays – “Fathers,” “Forefathers” and “Ancestors” – A.S. Byatt considers the renaissance of the historical novel. She focuses on novels of wartime experience, the surprising variety of the distant pasts British writers have invented, and the n...(展开全部)

In recent years many novelists have become increasingly interested in history as fiction and fiction as history. In her powerful opening essays – “Fathers,” “Forefathers” and “Ancestors” – A.S. Byatt considers the renaissance of the historical novel. She focuses on novels of wartime experience, the surprising variety of the distant pasts British writers have invented, and the n...(展开全部)

“In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be.” So begins Upstream, a collection of essays in which revered poet Mary Oliver reflects on her willingness, as a young child and as an adult, to lose herself within...(展开全部)

The concept of systematicity is central to Immanuel Kant's conception of scientific knowledge and to his practical philosophy. But Kant also held that we must be able to unite the separate systems of nature and freedom into a single system: on the one hand, morality itself requires that we be able to see its commands and goals as realizable within nature, while on the other han...(展开全部)