薩維耶‧凱能（Xavier Canonne） 比利時夏勒華攝影博物館館長，「揭相：馬格利特影像」展覽策展人。 於布魯塞爾Libre大學，研習藝術史，後於巴黎Sorbonne大學取得藝術史及考古學博士學位。曾策劃過曼‧雷、黎米勒、比利時超現實主義等展覽，並撰寫相關專書。 ■譯者簡介 陳玫妏 新北市人。荷蘭萊頓大學博士。曾擔任中研院研究助理、文教類廣播節目主持、社區與大學院校人文課程講師。現定居荷蘭，專職翻譯。譯有《我這樣告訴我女兒：寫給女孩們的信，關於勇氣、覺察、自信的能量與幸福未來》等書。 蘇威任 業餘（但專業的）法文口譯，法、英文筆譯。巴黎第七大學博士候選人，但現在發現有比唸博士更有趣的事。三十遊歷，四十而惑。譯有《產品設計，怎麼回事？》、《心靈之眼：決定性瞬間，布列松談攝影》、《藝術史的一千零一夜》等書。

The ongoing relevance of Belgian painter Rene Magritte may lie in the semiotic character of his work and its ability to create chasms between the world, its surfaces and the signs we use to occupy it. Magritte's paintings offer a space for the viewer to contemplate the emptiness of signs and to locate that emptiness in a world we recognize--indeed, the artist relies on the prop...(展开全部)

The works of René Magritte (1898 - 1967) and the ideas that underlie them are a special case both in the history of modern art and in surrealist painting. In the search for the "mystery" in which things and organisms are enveloped, Magritte created pictures which, taking everyday reality as their starting point, were to follow a different logic from that to which we are ac...(展开全部)

The works of René Magritte (1898 - 1967) and the ideas that underlie them are a special case both in the history of modern art and in surrealist painting. In the search for the "mystery" in which things and organisms are enveloped, Magritte created pictures which, taking everyday reality as their starting point, were to follow a different logic from that to which we are ac...(展开全部)

What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion--imageability--and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuil...(展开全部)

In this book van Fraassen develops an alternative to scientific realism by constructing and evaluating three mutually reinforcing theories.

"The extraordinary range of architecture [presented by Millet] coupled with the author's lucid presentation of light as a rich and evocative part of design is central to what architects do, or ought to. This book fills a vast need for the design profession." - M. Susan Ubbelohde, University of California, Berkeley "Marietta Millet takes us through ancient and contemporary build...(展开全部)

In "The Future of the Image", Jacques Ranciere develops a fascinating new concept of the image in contemporary art, showing how art and politics have always been intrinsically intertwined. Covering a range of art movements, and thinkers such as Foucault, Deleuze, Adorno, Barthes, Lyotard and Greenberg, Ranciere argues that contemporary theorists of the image are suffering from ...(展开全部)

A leading philosopher presents a radical manifesto for the future of art and film. In The Future of the Image, Jacques Ranci&232;re develops a fascinating new concept of the image in contemporary art, showing how art and politics have always been intrinsically intertwined. Covering a range of art movements, and thinkers such as Foucault, Deleuze, Adorno, Barthes, Lyotard and G...(展开全部)

If anything marks the image, it is a deep ambivalence. Denounced as superficial, illusory, and groundless, images are at the same time attributed with exorbitant power and assigned a privileged relation to truth. Mistrusted by philosophy, forbidden and embraced by religions, manipulated as spectacleand proliferated in the media, images never cease to present their multiple aspe...(展开全部)