The quadrivium—the classical curriculum—comprises the four liberal arts of number, geometry, music, and cosmology. It was studied from antiquity to the Renaissance as a way of glimpsing the nature of reality. Geometry is number in space; music is number in time; and comology expresses number in space and time. Number, music, and geometry are metaphysical truths: life across the...(展开全部)

For two millennia the right way to teach geometry was the Euclidean approach, and in many respects, this is still the case. But in the 1950s the cry "Down with triangles!" was heard in France and new geometry books appeared, packed with linear algebra but with no diagrams. Was this the new right approach? Or was the right approach still something else, perhaps transformation gr...(展开全部)

This book provides the first lucid and accessible account to the modern study of the geometry of four-manifolds. It has become required reading for postgraduates and research workers whose research touches on this topic. Pre-requisites are a firm grounding in differential topology, and geometry as may be gained from the first year of a graduate course. The subject matter of thi...(展开全部)

Each of the seven liberal arts -grammar, rhetoric, dialectic, arithmetic, music, geometry and astronomy arts is discussed in an individual essay written by a specialist in the field. These essays examine the establishment of the medieval concept of the arts in the post-classical writings of the Latin encyclopedists, briefly treat their history from the eighth through the Twelft...(展开全部)

For many of us, classical music is something serious-something we study in school, something played by cultivated musicians at fancy gatherings. In Language of the Spirit, renowned music scholar Jan Swafford argues that we have it all wrong: classical music has something for everyone and is accessible to all. Ranging from Gregorian chant to Handel's Messiah, from Vivaldi's The ...(展开全部)

《I Am Number Four (关键第四号)》：9名十几岁的外星少年，逃离自己被外族毁灭的星球来到地球并拥有了超能力，就当他们在地球被同化、逐渐适应这里的高中生活时，其中一人察觉到，毁灭他们星球的敌人也跟着他们也来到了地球…… 有“超人版暮色”之称的《I Am Number Four (关键第四号)》近日连续曝光了6支新片段以及部分新剧照，这部讲述着来自外星球的超能人潜伏在青春校园的科幻动作片来自《变形金刚》导演迈克尔•贝的监制，和《鹰眼》导演D•J•卡卢索的执导，不管剧情看起来如何的“少女+暮色”情怀，但本片的各式大场面和俊男靓女不可错过，同时，《I Am Number Four (关键第四号)》已经定于2月28日以普通2D和IMAX2D两种形式全面登陆中国内地大银幕。 外表帅气的当红偶像亚历克斯•帕蒂弗领衔出演本片主人公约翰•史密斯...(展开全部)

Bogue provides a systematic overview and introduction to Deleuze's writings on music and painting, and an assessment of their position within his aesthetics as a whole. Deleuze on Music, Painting and the Arts breaks new ground in the scholarship on Deleuze's aesthetics, while providing a clear and accessible guide to his often overlooked writings in the fields of music and pain...(展开全部)

Sociology of the Arts is a comprehensive overview of the sociology of art and an authoritative work of scholarship by a leading expert in the field. The book synthesizes the various theoretical models of art sociology, and provides empirical examples as well as stimulating exemplars of sociological work on the arts. Case studies of art works are from both ends of the cultural s...(展开全部)

For the fifth edition of his internationally renowned "The Arts of China", Michael Sullivan has thoroughly revised and expanded every chapter of this classic history of Chinese art from the Neolithic period to the present day. This new edition reflects the latest archaeological discoveries, pays greater attention to the art of calligraphy, provides more information on Chan (Zen...(展开全部)