In this, the only up-to-date critical work on still life painting in any language, Norman Bryson analyses the origins, history and logic of 'still life', one of the most enduring forms of Western painting. The first essay is devoted to Roman wall-painting while in the second the author surveys a major segment in the history of still life, from seventeenth-century Spanish painti...(展开全部)

作者简介： 以赛亚·伯林(1909—1997)　英国哲学家和政治思想史家,20世纪最著名的自由主义知识分子之一。出生于俄国里加的一个犹太人家庭,1920年随父母前往英国。1928年进入牛津大学攻读文学和哲学,1932年获选全灵学院研究员,并在新学院任哲学讲师,其间与艾耶尔、奥斯汀等参与了普通语言哲学的运动。二战期间,先后在纽约、华盛顿和莫斯科担任外交职务。1946年重回牛津教授哲学课程,并把研究方向转向思想史。1957年成为牛津大学社会与政治理论教授,并获封爵士。1966年至1975年担任牛津大学沃尔森学院院长。主要著作有《自由四论》（1969，后扩充为《自由论》）、《俄国思想家》(1978)、《反潮流》(1979)、《个人印象》(1980)、《扭曲的人性之材》（1990）、《现实感》(1996)、《浪漫主义的根源》（1999）、《启蒙的三个批评者...(展开全部)

作者简介： 以赛亚·伯林(1909—1997)　英国哲学家和政治思想史家,20世纪最著名的自由主义知识分子之一。出生于俄国里加的一个犹太人家庭,1920年随父母前往英国。1928年进入牛津大学攻读文学和哲学,1932年获选全灵学院研究员,并在新学院任哲学讲师,其间与艾耶尔、奥斯汀等参与了普通语言哲学的运动。二战期间,先后在纽约、华盛顿和莫斯科担任外交职务。1946年重回牛津教授哲学课程,并把研究方向转向思想史。1957年成为牛津大学社会与政治理论教授,并获封爵士。1966年至1975年担任牛津大学沃尔森学院院长。主要著作有《自由四论》（1969，后扩充为《自由论》）、《俄国思想家》(1978)、《反潮流》(1979)、《个人印象》(1980)、《扭曲的人性之材》（1990）、《现实感》(1996)、《浪漫主义的根源》（1999）、《启蒙的三个批评者...(展开全部)

戴夫·希基（Dave Hickey 1939- ），美国当代著名的艺术批评家、文化批评家之一，因其特立独行和直言不讳，被戏称为“艺术批评界的坏小子”“艺术批评界让人头痛的天才”，以对抗学院派艺术批评、强调自由艺术市场的价值、召唤"美的回归"而蜚声当代艺术批评界。

Liberty is a revised and expanded edition of the book that Isaiah Berlin regarded as his most important—Four Essays on Liberty, a standard text of liberalism, constantly in demand and constantly discussed since it was first published in 1969. Writing in Harper's, Irving Howe described it as "an exhilarating performance—this, one tells oneself, is what the life of the mind can b...(展开全部)

Liberty is a revised and expanded edition of the book that Isaiah Berlin regarded as his most important—Four Essays on Liberty, a standard text of liberalism, constantly in demand and constantly discussed since it was first published in 1969. Writing in Harper's, Irving Howe described it as "an exhilarating performance—this, one tells oneself, is what the life of the mind can b...(展开全部)

From the author of The New York Times bestseller Possession, comes a highly acclaimed novel which captures in brilliant detail the life of one extended English family--and illuminates the choices they must make between domesticity and ambition, life and art. Toni Morrison, author of Beloved, writes of Byatt: "When it comes to probing characters her scalpel is sure but gentle. S...(展开全部)

Frederica Potter, "doomed to be intelligent'' plunges into Cambridge Universty life greedy for knowledge, sex and love. In Yorkshire her sister Stephanie has abandoned academe for the cosy frustration of the family. Alexander Wedderburn, now in London, struggles to write a play about Van Gogh, whose art and tragic life give the novel its central Leitmotiv. In this sequel to Th...(展开全部)

Frederica Potter, "doomed to be intelligent'' plunges into Cambridge Universty life greedy for knowledge, sex and love. In Yorkshire her sister Stephanie has abandoned academe for the cosy frustration of the family. Alexander Wedderburn, now in London, struggles to write a play about Van Gogh, whose art and tragic life give the novel its central Leitmotiv. In this sequel to Th...(展开全部)

From the author of The New York Times bestseller Possession, comes a highly acclaimed novel which captures in brilliant detail the life of one extended English family--and illuminates the choices they must make between domesticity and ambition, life and art. Toni Morrison, author of Beloved, writes of Byatt: "When it comes to probing characters her scalpel is sure but gentle. S...(展开全部)