This intelligently argued, critical overview is invaluable for the way in which it reveals and makes coherent sense of the often bewildering diversity of styles, forms, media, techniques and agendas that proliferate in contemporary art. Now revised and expanded, Michael Archer's acclaimed book is brought right up to date with discussions about the comprehensive globalization of...(展开全部)

Publisher's Description After World War II, the American road trip began appearing prominently in literature, music, movies and photography. As Stephen Shore has written, “Our country is made for long trips. Since the 1940s, the dream of the road trip, and the sense of possibility and freedom that it represents, has taken its own important place within our culture.” Many photog...(展开全部)

In Windows and Mirrors: Interaction Design, Digital Art, and the Myth of Transparency, Jay David Bolter and Diane Gromala argue that, contrary to Donald Norman's famous dictum, we do not always want our computers to be invisible "information appliances." They say that a computer does not feel like a toaster or a vacuum cleaner; it feels like a medium that is now taking its plac...(展开全部)

Weegee's legendary camera recorded an unmatched pictorial chronicle of a legendary time. Weegee's New York is the New York of the thirties and forties, a city marked by the Great Depression, by unemployment and poverty, by mob violence and prostitution. He was the first news photographer allowed a police radio in his car. Racing through Manhattans streets after midnight, he oft...(展开全部)

'An important work on an involved subject,, illustrated with more than 250 telling black-and-white pictures and written with admirable thoroughness and clarity... Now at last we have a full,, standard work... a mine of scholarly and stimulating information which has been needed for a long time' - The Times Literary Supplement

1949年生于华盛顿，哥伦比亚大学美国史教授，著作有Voices of Protest、The End of Reform、John F. Kennedy: The American Presidents Series: The 35th President, 1961-1963等

1949年生于华盛顿，哥伦比亚大学美国史教授，著作有Voices of Protest、The End of Reform、John F. Kennedy: The American Presidents Series: The 35th President, 1961-1963等

'Geography and Geographers' surveys the major trends in human geography since 1945 in the English-speaking world and sets their appreciation within the context of economic, social and political changes. It focuses on the debates among geographers regarding what their discipline should study and how that should be done, and draws on a wide reading of the geographical literature ...(展开全部)