阿德里安•福蒂，伦敦大学巴特雷特建筑学院的建筑史教授，2003年获米沙•布莱克爵士创新设计教育奖。主要兴趣是社会和文化环境中建筑设计的作用。著作还包括：《语言与建筑：现代建筑的词汇》（1986）、《巴西的现代建筑》（合著，2004）、《混凝土与文化：材料的历史》（2012）等。

Objects of Desire looks at the appearance of consumer goods in the 200 years since the introduction of mechanized production, whether in Josiah Wedgewood's use of neo-classicism for his industrially manufactured pottery or the development of appropriate forms for wirelesses. The argument is illustrated with examples ranging from penknives to computers and from sewing machines t...(展开全部)

阿德里安•福蒂，伦敦大学巴特雷特建筑学院的建筑史教授，2003年获米沙•布莱克爵士创新设计教育奖。主要兴趣是社会和文化环境中建筑设计的作用。著作还包括：《语言与建筑：现代建筑的词汇》（1986）、《巴西的现代建筑》（合著，2004）、《混凝土与文化：材料的历史》（2012）等。

迈克尔・卡米尔（Michael Camille,1958-2002），芝加哥大学艺术史教授，于剑桥大学获得博士学位，其后一直在芝加哥大学任教。他是中世纪艺术研究方面的权威，其主要著作有《中世纪的偶像：中世纪艺术中的意识形态和造像》、《边缘上的肖像：中世纪艺术的起源》、《逝去的大师：皮埃尔・雷米特的无生命的艺术》、《饰画人》、《中世纪艺术：幻想与中世纪的启示录》。 译者简介： 刘日明，男，1968年生，江西遂川人。1992年9月考入华东师范大学哲学系，1995年6月获哲学硕士学位；2000年9月考入复旦大学哲学系，2003年6月获哲学博士学位。现为同济大学哲学与社会学系副教授、当代马克思主义哲学研究所副所长、外国哲学专业硕士生导师。主要研究领域为西方政治学与法哲学、西方马克思主义。在《学术季刊》、《人文杂志》、《天津社会科学》、《学术研究》等杂志发表论...(展开全部)

Editorial Reviews From Library Journal The representation of love in medieval decorations, paintings, and drawings offers an intriguing glimpse into the society and philosophy of that time. Interpreting these depictions as having a specific purpose?to inspire love or eroticism?Camille (art history, Univ. of Chicago) explores what, according to the period, love meant for the med...(展开全部)

How are love and emotion embodied in material form? Love Objects explores the emotional potency of things, addressing how objects can function as fetishes, symbols and representations, active participants in and mediators of our relationships, as well as tokens of affection, symbols of virility, triggers of nostalgia, replacements for lost loved ones, and symbols of lost places...(展开全部)

Although design has become eminently newsworthy among the general public in our society, there is very little understanding to be found of the values and implications that underlie it. Design generates much heat but little light: we live in a world that has much design consciousness, but little design awareness. Nigel Whiteley analyses design's role and status today, and discus...(展开全部)

Although design has become eminently newsworthy among the general public in our society, there is very little understanding to be found of the values and implications that underlie it. Design generates much heat but little light: we live in a world that has much design consciousness, but little design awareness. Nigel Whiteley analyses design's role and status today, and discus...(展开全部)

The first book to be published on the work of their partnership (in 2001), this is the essential primary source for understanding the theoretical and conceptual underpinnings for Dunne & Raby’s work. Consisting of three elements – a ‘manifesto’ on the possibilities of designing with and for the ‘secret life’ of electronic objects; notes for an embryonic network of critical desi...(展开全部)

著者 安东尼·邓恩（Anthony Dunne）和菲奥娜·雷比（Fiona Raby） 现任纽约新学院大学教授和研究员，曾就职于伦敦皇家艺术学院。邓恩和雷比以设计为媒，激发关于现有和新兴技术的社会、文化和道德影响的讨论，另著有《思辨一切》和《赫兹故事》。作品曾在纽约现代艺术博物馆、巴黎蓬皮杜中心等展出，获麻省理工学院媒体实验室奖。