Since 1945 the modern revolution in sculpture has gathered pace, and sculpture has now ceased to be the fixed category it once was. In recent decades the modernist idea of sculpture across the UK, America, and Europe, has been challenged, and issues such as nationalityand politics have been brought in to the arena of public discussion. In this ground-breaking account of the dev...(展开全部)

"Designing" has come of age since World War II. The essential shape, form and structure of some objects in our daily lives may have been fixed many generations ago, but design and designers have now been moved centre stage by the varied demands of a society that in less than half a century has gone from the restless search for the new throw-away consumerism to a postmodernist r...(展开全部)

Almost a decade in the making, this much-anticipated grand history of postwar Europe from one of the world's most esteemed historians and intellectuals is a singular achievement. Postwar is the first modern history that covers all of Europe, both east and west, drawing on research in six languages to sweep readers through thirty-four nations and sixty years of political and cul...(展开全部)

Almost a decade in the making, this much-anticipated grand history of postwar Europe from one of the world's most esteemed historians and intellectuals is a singular achievement. Postwar is the first modern history that covers all of Europe, both east and west, drawing on research in six languages to sweep readers through thirty-four nations and sixty years of political and cul...(展开全部)

A comprehensive and beautifully illustrated overview of contemporary sculpture.

Imagining Sculpture is the story of the absence of a powerful European idea: Sculpture. In China statues, stele, and other figural objects were made for millennia but were not categorized as Sculpture. Imagining Sculpture explains how they were seen in China as objects beyond the category of Sculpture. Stanley Abe has written a series of short historical and fictional vignettes...(展开全部)

This up-to-date and detailed exploration of China's magnificent sculptural heritage is presented in this book that is both accessible to the general reader and revelatory for the scholar. Sculpture is becoming known as one of China's great arts. Neolithic figurines, rows upon rows of underground terra-cotta statues, exquisite bronzes, Buddhas carved in cave walls - all these ar...(展开全部)

盖尔•伦德斯塔德（Geir Lundestad），挪威最有影响力的历史学家之一，挪威奥斯陆大学国际关系史教授。主要研究领域为国际关系史、美欧关系、美国对外政策等。伦德斯塔德笔耕不辍、著述颇丰，就国际政治及美欧关系发表了海量的著述，是这一领域具有全球影响的主要学者。主要作 品有《20世纪的战争与和平》、《二战以来的美国与西欧》、《美帝国的崛起与衰落》、《冷战后的国际关系》、《大国的衰落》等。 吴征宇，历史学博士，中国人民大学国际关系学院教授，博士生导师。主要从事国际关系思想与理论、战略研究等方面的教学与研究，先后在英国杜伦大学政治学系、美国伊利诺伊大学（厄巴纳-香槟）东亚与太平洋研究中心、英国伦敦经济学院从事访学和博士后研究工作。已出版个人学术专著三部、译著 两部（合译），并在各类核心期刊及海外学术杂志上发表学术论文四十余篇。

罗尔夫·托曼（Rolf Toman），研修德语文学和哲学，德国知名独立出版人和国际知名艺术史研究专家。他曾在一家大型国际出版公司任编辑数年，1992年起成为独立出版人，长期从事文化及艺术史学相关的研究与图书出版工作，并与各国较有影响力的一些大型出版公司有多次深入的合作。与艺术史相关的艺术图书是他的工作重点，多年来组织各地相关专家编著出版过多部与艺术史相关的出版物，并有多部作品被引进中国出版。 阿希姆·贝德诺兹（Achim Bednorz），来自科隆，致力于为建筑与艺术史的出版物拍摄作品图像长达二十多年之久。他将自己定义为“神圣处所的守望者”。 巴巴拉·波隆加塞尔(Barbara Borngässer），德累斯顿人，在柏林、佛罗伦萨和萨拉曼卡从事艺术史、罗马研究和考古学研究，曾有多部现代建筑方面的著作出版。