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)

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)

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)

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。

Auto Focus features a dazzling array of self-portraits by seventy-five of the world’s foremost contemporary photographers. Photography writer and curator Susan Bright provides a clear guide through this significant and dynamic genre, showing how issues of identity—whether national, sexual, racial, personal, or artistic—are key to understanding the work of many of today’s leadi...(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.

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.

The intimate life of artist Frida Kahlo is wonderfully revealed in the illustrated journal she kept during her last 10 years. This passionate and at times surprising record contains the artist's thoughts, poems, and dreams; many reflecting her stormy relationship with her husband, artist Diego Rivera, along with 70 mesmerising watercolour illustrations. The text entries in brig...(展开全部)