David and Jonathan are two innocent-looking young men who meet each other amidst the prowlers in the park late one night - at least that is what seems to be the case at the outset. Just behind their angelic facades, however, are devils in disguise. This 'second skin' is what we get to see - details from the boys' public and private lives. The hard, cold facts from the story of ...(展开全部)

《大消息》是美国彭博新闻社首席艺术评论家马丁•盖福德的新书。该书汇集了世界著名画师大卫•霍克尼与盖福德十年间的谈话。配合精选的作品插图，本书呈现给读者的是大师对艺术创作的执着以及不断创新的努力。《大消息》是这位享誉盛名的英国画家的一幅独特而迷人的自画像。

When David Shannon was only five years old, he wrote and illustrated a story in which an unruly little boy breaks all of his mother's rules -- he jumps on the beds; he chews with his mouth open; he plays ball in the house. Any child who is tired of hearing his parents say "No " will readily identify with this boldly illustrated, comical story.

Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) was the most important European artist in a period of extraordinary upheaval. A participant in the French Revolution, he then witnessed the rise and fall of Napoleon Bonaparte. A revolutionary in both art and life, David took painting away from the frivolity of the Rococo towards the dramatic moral force of neoclassicism. Passionate, intense, fie...(展开全部)

Recent decades have seen a remarkable upsurge of interest in German Idealism in the English-speaking world. However, out of the three leading thinkers of the period directly after Kant--Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel--Schelling has received relatively little attention. In particular, the distinctive philosophical project of Schelling's late period, beginning in the 1820s, has bee...(展开全部)

This text focuses on new results in molecular motors, self-assembly, and single-molecule manipulation that have revolutionized the field in recent years, and integrates these topics with classical results. The text also provides foundational material for the emerging field of nanotechnology. Now in paperback, this updated edition has new end-of-chapter problems giving fresh opt...(展开全部)

In this witty, candid, and revealing account of himself, which is in the tradition of Cellini's Autobiography, Hockney tells of his early years in art school; his studies at the Royal College of Art in London, during which he first came to public attention; his sojourn in California, which inspired his best-known paintings, drawings and prints; and his present phase in Paris, w...(展开全部)

David Copperfield is the common name of the eighth novel, first published as a novel in 1850. Like most of Charles Dickens'works, it originally appeared in serial form during the two preceding years. Many elements of the novel follow events in his own life, and it is probably the most autobiographical of his novels. In the preface to the 1867 edition, Dickens wrote, like many fond parents, I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And his name is David Copperfield.

Pop artist, painter of modern life, landscape painter, master of color, explorer of image and perception—for six decades, David Hockney has been known as an artist who always finds new ways of exploring the world and its representational possibilities. He has consistently created unforgettable images: works with graphic lines and integrated text in the Swinging Sixties in Londo...(展开全部)