As one of the most influential and inspirational graphic designers of the twentieth century, Paul Rand defined modern American graphic design. His iconic logo designs for IBM, UPS, and the ABC television network distilled the essences of modernity for his corporate patrons. His body of work includes advertising, poster, magazine, and book designscharacterized by simplicity and ...(展开全部)

As one of the most influential and inspirational graphic designers of the twentieth century, Paul Rand defined modern American graphic design. His iconic logo designs for IBM, UPS, and the ABC television network distilled the essences of modernity for his corporate patrons. His body of work includes advertising, poster, magazine, and book designscharacterized by simplicity and ...(展开全部)

Paul Rand (1914-1996) was a pioneering figure in American graphic design whose career spanned almost seven decades. Always enquiring and investigating, he explored the formal vocabulary of European avant-garde art movements and synthesised them to produce a distinctive graphic language. Rand was a major force in editorial design, advertising and corporate identity. He was art d...(展开全部)

Paul Rand (1914-1996) was a pioneering figure in American graphic design whose career spanned almost seven decades. Always enquiring and investigating, he explored the formal vocabulary of European avant-garde art movements and synthesised them to produce a distinctive graphic language. Rand was a major force in editorial design, advertising and corporate identity. He was art d...(展开全部)

Louis Kahn (1901-1974), a practitioner of international modernism, sought the spiritual in his powerful forms and encouraged his students to seek the essential nature of architecture. His Philadelphia-based practice was responsible for the Richards Medical Research building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Yale Art Gallery extension in New Haven, the Kimbell Art Museum in For...(展开全部)

大卫·霍克尼（David Hockney） 画家、摄影师。20世纪60年代波普运动在英国的代表，被认为是20世纪最具影响力的英国艺术家，也是当今国际画坛最有影响力的艺术家之一。霍克尼早年接受正规艺术教育，毕业于伦敦皇家艺术学院，1966年（29岁）即在画廊举办个人画展。受现代主义思潮影响，创作了大量蚀刻版画，受到艺术界的重视。20世纪60年代多次到美国旅行，后在加州设立了自己的工作室。由此转向写实风格，并创作了多幅经典名作。如《更大水花》，《一个艺术家的肖像》等。 20世纪80年代起，霍克尼创作了一系列名为“Joiners”的摄影拼贴作品，通过宝丽来相片，探讨了绘画与摄影在视觉表现上的关系，对摄影作为艺术的可能性做了具有重要意义的探讨。这使他在摄影史上，享有与画家格哈德•里希特同样的重要地位。而在贡布里希的《艺术的故事》中，霍克尼也成为仅有的两位被介...(展开全部)

大卫·霍克尼（David Hockney） 画家、摄影师。20世纪60年代波普运动在英国的代表，被认为是20世纪最具影响力的英国艺术家，也是当今国际画坛最有影响力的艺术家之一。霍克尼早年接受正规艺术教育，毕业于伦敦皇家艺术学院，1966年（29岁）即在画廊举办个人画展。受现代主义思潮影响，创作了大量蚀刻版画，受到艺术界的重视。20世纪60年代多次到美国旅行，后在加州设立了自己的工作室。由此转向写实风格，并创作了多幅经典名作。如《更大水花》，《一个艺术家的肖像》等。 20世纪80年代起，霍克尼创作了一系列名为“Joiners”的摄影拼贴作品，通过宝丽来相片，探讨了绘画与摄影在视觉表现上的关系，对摄影作为艺术的可能性做了具有重要意义的探讨。这使他在摄影史上，享有与画家格哈德•里希特同样的重要地位。而在贡布里希的《艺术的故事》中，霍克尼也成为仅有的两位被介...(展开全部)

From one of the Observer's Rising Stars of 2017, a high-risk, highbrow and intimate novel – and one of the most anticipated works of fiction this year. Features Frances, Bobbi, Nick and Melissa, four characters who ask each other endless questions. As their relationships unfold, in person and online, they discuss sex and friendship, art and literature, politics and gender, and,...(展开全部)

Gustav Janouch met Franz Kafka, the celebrated author of The Metamorphosis, as a seventeen-year-old fledgling poet. As Francine Prose notes in her wonderful preface, “they fell into the habit of taking long strolls through the city, strolls on which Kafka seems to have said many amazing, incisive, literary, and per- things to his companion and interlocutor, the teenage Boswell ...(展开全部)

Frances is twenty-one years old, cool-headed and observant. A student in Dublin and an aspiring writer, at night she performs spoken word with her best friend Bobbi, who used to be her girlfriend. When they are interviewed and then befriended by Melissa, a well-known journalist who is married to Nick, an actor, they enter a world of beautiful houses, raucous dinner parties and ...(展开全部)