In this encounter between one of the 20th century’s greatest minds and an artist fundamental to the development of modern art, French philosopher Michel Foucault explores Edouard Manet’s importance in the overthrow of traditional values in painting. . Originally delivered in Tunis in 1971 as part of a conference on Manet and here translated into English for the first time, this...(展开全部)

T.J.克拉克（1943-）英国著名艺术史家，艺术社会史研究的杰出代表。早年就读于剑桥大学圣约翰学院，30岁时在伦敦大学考陶尔德艺术研究院获得美术史博士学位，同年出版《人民的形象》和《绝对的资产阶级》(1973)，立刻被公认为英语国家“新艺术史”的杰作。在英国多所大学任 教后，年仅37岁的他就担任了美国哈佛大学艺术史教授。现为美国伯克莱加州大学现代艺术教授，著有《现代生活的画像：马奈及其追随者艺术中的巴黎》(1985)、《告别观念》（1999）及《瞥见死神》（2008）等。 译者： 沈语冰，浙江大学教授、博士生导师，浙江大学美学与批评理论研究所所长。长期从事西方现代美学、现代艺术史与艺术批评史的教学和研究，本丛书执行主编。 诸葛沂，浙江大学美学与批评理论研究所博士，现任教于浙江农林大学艺术设计学院，从事艺术理论与视觉文化研究。

Throughout the history of science and technology, objects have been understood in many ways but rarely have they been understood to play an active role in the production of knowledge. This has led to largely anthropocentric theories and histories of science, which treat nature as passive objects viewed by independent observers. Thomas Nail approaches the theory of objects histo...(展开全部)

Slavoj Zizek, the maverick philosopher, author of over 30 books, acclaimed as the "Elvis of cultural theory," and today's most controversial public intellectual. His work traverses the fields of philosophy, psychoanalysis, theology, history and political theory, taking in film, popular culture, literature and jokes all to provide acute analyses of the complexities of contempora...(展开全部)

Discusses the dichotomy of artistic thought that led to the evolution of modern painting, as perceived by the new art's Salon des Refuses and the Paris art world of 1863

"In this important work, Anne de Coursey Clapp has drawn a clear picture of T'ang Yin's life, patronage relationships, and contribution to the history of Chinese painting. In the person of T'ang Yin, she has chosen an ideal focus around which to examine some of the misleading stereotypes which have distorted our understanding of Chinese painting since the seventeenth century. M...(展开全部)

Nelson looks at how language relates to the world and more particularly at the referring power of names. The first half of the book details the history of the subject from Locke onwards and is followed by Nelson's own reference theory.

An 'object' is a work of architecture that is expressly cut off from its environment. Objects are not exclusive to any particular architectural style, but objectification has long been central to western architecture. Indeed, it might even be said to be the very strategy by which modernism succeeded in conquering the world. It is all-pervasive because it is consistent with the ...(展开全部)