Enduring icons of American culture, the car and the highway remain vital as auguries of adventure and discovery, and a means by which to take in the country's vast scale. Lee Friedlander is the first photographer to make the car an actual "form" for making photographs. Driving across most of the country's 50 states in an ordinary rental car, Friedlander applied the brilliantly ...(展开全部)

扬·瓦格纳，1971年10月出生于汉堡，生活在柏林，是德国当今最有影响的诗人之一，翻译家，自由文学评论家。他曾在汉堡大学、柏林洪堡大学和爱尔兰圣三一大学研究英国和爱尔兰当代诗歌，发表了不少的诗和诗评。除了出版了诗集《试钻天空》（2001），《格里克的麻雀》（2004），《十八道派》（2007），《澳大利亚》（2010），《雨桶变奏曲》（2014），《蜂群自画像》（2016），《蝴蝶秀》（2018），他还出版了不少散文集。 所获部分奖项： 安娜·西格斯奖（2004年），恩斯特·梅斯特奖（2005年），威廉·莱曼奖（2009年），德国罗马学院的马西莫别墅奖学金（2011），蒂宾根市的弗里德里希·荷尔德林奖（2011年），保尔·希尔巴特奖（2013年），莱比锡书展奖（2015年），北京大学中坤国际诗歌奖（2017），以及同年获得格奥尔格·毕希纳奖。

In this broad cultural survey of self-portraiture, art historian and critic James Hall brilliantly maps the history of the genre, from the earliest myths of Narcissus and the Christian tradition of bearing witness to the prolific self-image-making of todays contemporary artists. His vivid account shows how artists depictions of themselves have been part of a continuing traditio...(展开全部)

A remarkable re-creation of the life of K'ang-hsi, emperor of the Manchu dynasty from 1661-1772, assembled from documents that survived his reign.

In this brilliant essay, Jacques Derrida explores issues of vision, blindness, self-representation, and their relation to drawing, while offering detailed readings of an extraordinary collection of images. Selected by Derrida from the prints and drawings department of the Louvre, the works depict blindness--fictional, historical, and biblical. From Old and New Testament scenes ...(展开全部)

In this brilliant essay, Jacques Derrida explores issues of vision, blindness, self-representation, and their relation to drawing, while offering detailed readings of an extraordinary collection of images. Selected by Derrida from the prints and drawings department of the Louvre, the works depict blindness--fictional, historical, and biblical. From Old and New Testament scenes ...(展开全部)

詹姆斯·洛德（James Lord） 美国作家，于1922 年出生于新泽西州的恩格尔伍德，是多本书的作者，包括广受好评的阿尔贝托·贾科梅蒂和巴勃罗·毕加索的传记。1964 年， 美国传记作家詹姆斯·洛德受邀担任艺术家贾科梅蒂的肖像模特，他将这段经历记录下来并集结成册。透过本书，我们得以 窥见这位大艺术家的生活习惯、言行举止以及创作理念。

When we look at a painting hanging on an art gallery wall, we see only what the artist has chosen to disclose--the finished work of art. What remains mysterious is the process of creation itself--the making of the work of art. Everyone who has looked at paintings has wondered about this, and numerous efforts have been made to discover and depict the creative method of important...(展开全部)

Drawing on a full range of Cicero's speeches, essays and correspondence, as well as on the most recent research, Rawson's highly regarded biography of Cicero - his politics and philosophy - makes fascinating reading for historians, classicists, and anyone interested in Roman history.