Howard Belsey, a Rembrandt scholar who doesn't like Rembrandt, is an Englishman abroad and a long-suffering professor at Wellington, a liberal New England arts college. He has been married for thirty years to Kiki, an American woman who no longer resembles the sexy activist she once was. Their three children passionately pursue their own paths: Levi quests after authentic black...(展开全部)

Howard Belsey, a Rembrandt scholar who doesn't like Rembrandt, is an Englishman abroad and a long-suffering professor at Wellington, a liberal New England arts college. He has been married for thirty years to Kiki, an American woman who no longer resembles the sexy activist she once was. Their three children passionately pursue their own paths: Levi quests after authentic black...(展开全部)

作者 | 夏尔·费迪南·拉缪（Charles ferdinand Ramuz,1878—1947） 瑞士著名作家和诗人。一生创作了22部长篇小说、3部短篇小说集以及多部诗集和随笔集。1997年，瑞士国家银行将拉缪的头像及其作品元素作为国家文化象征印在了第八套面额为200瑞士法郎的纸币上。2005年，他的全部小说人选法国伽利玛出版社的“七星文库”丛书，同一年瑞士的斯拉特金出版社也推出了29卷本的《拉缪全集》，他的作品从此进入经典文学的殿堂。2019年，他的《莱芒湖畔的少女》等三部小说人选瑞士《时报》评选的“20世纪以来最优秀的50部法语作品”。 ———————————————————————————— 译者 | 金龙格 法语文学翻译家，桂林旅游学院教授、译审。1987年毕业于复旦大学外文系，曾任职于漓江出版社。2011年、2019年凭借《青春咖啡馆》和...(展开全部)

Have we become beauty-blind? For two decades or more in the humanities, various political arguments have been put forward against beauty: that it distracts us from more important issues; that it is the handmaiden of privilege; and that it masks political interests. In "On Beauty and Being Just", Elaine Scarry not only defends beauty from the political arguments against it but a...(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。

When the repulsively ugly Coddie unintentionally saves a fairy from a spell, she does not understand the poisonous nature of the wish granted her by the fairy. The village folk no longer see her as repulsive and stinking of fish—they now perceive her as magnetically beautiful—which does not help her in her village. A young local lord saves her, but it soon becomes apparent that...(展开全部)

When the repulsively ugly Coddie unintentionally saves a fairy from a spell, she does not understand the poisonous nature of the wish granted her by the fairy. The village folk no longer see her as repulsive and stinking of fish—they now perceive her as magnetically beautiful—which does not help her in her village. A young local lord saves her, but it soon becomes apparent that...(展开全部)

Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference. Here, the renowned philosopher Roger Scruton explores the concept of beauty, asking what makes an object - either in art, in nature, or the human form - beautiful, and examining ...(展开全部)

Dave Hickey's "The Invisible Dragon" exploded like a bomb in the world of art criticism when it was originally published in 1993. Championed by artists for its forceful call for attention to beauty, and savaged by more theoretically oriented critics who had long dismissed the very concept of beauty as naive, the book ignited a debate that has shown no sign of flagging. With thi...(展开全部)

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