You will not open this book and read of frilly dresses, although they do hang in my closet, somewhere behind all of the shoes. While you peruse the pages you may cross the occasional rose petal, but I assure you, they have been strategically placed as distraction, laughing off the intensity. The first poem was birthed at the age of twelve, so please, be gentle and read with kin...(展开全部)

In 18 remarkable essays, John Updike has collected together his thoughts and observations on American art. Beginning with early American portraits and landscapes, he goes on to extol two late-nineteenth-century masters, Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins, considers the eccentric pre-modern James McNeill Whistler, discusses the competing American Impressionists and Realists of the ...(展开全部)

When, in 1989, a collection of John Updike’s writings on art appeared under the title Just Looking , a reviewer in the San Francisco Chronicle commented, “He refreshes for us the sense of prose opportunity that makes art a sustaining subject to people who write about it.” In the sixteen years since Just Looking was published, he has continued to serve as an art critic, mos...(展开全部)

In this, the only up-to-date critical work on still life painting in any language, Norman Bryson analyses the origins, history and logic of 'still life', one of the most enduring forms of Western painting. The first essay is devoted to Roman wall-painting while in the second the author surveys a major segment in the history of still life, from seventeenth-century Spanish painti...(展开全部)

In this, the only up-to-date critical work on still life painting in any language, Norman Bryson analyses the origins, history and logic of 'still life', one of the most enduring forms of Western painting. The first essay is devoted to Roman wall-painting while in the second the author surveys a major segment in the history of still life, from seventeenth-century Spanish painti...(展开全部)

著者： 罗纳德•B•阿德勒（Ronald B. Adler），致力于有关沟通的研究和写作。他的著作主题涵盖了商务沟通、公共演讲、小组交流、独断力以及社交技巧。写作之外，他还在大学授课，以帮助专业和商务人士改进他们在职场中的人际沟通技巧。 拉塞尔•F•普罗科特（Russell F. Proctor），北肯塔基大学教授。1990年在一次沟通学会议上与阿德勒相遇，两人就使用故事片作为教学用具达成了共识。多年来，他们围绕沟通这个主题广泛地撰写文章、四处演讲，并合作出版了许多教材。 译者： 黄素菲，台湾师范大学教育心理与辅导研究所博士，曾担任东吴大学专任讲师，并在台北商专、师范大学、台湾艺术学院、东吴大学、实践大学、辅仁大学、海洋大学等学府担任兼职讲师和辅导老师。现任阳明大学学生辅导中心主任。 李恩，自由译者，吉林大学心理学学士，海外工作四年，曾于联合国亚洲总...(展开全部)

著者： 罗纳德•B•阿德勒（Ronald B. Adler），致力于有关沟通的研究和写作。他的著作主题涵盖了商务沟通、公共演讲、小组交流、独断力以及社交技巧。写作之外，他还在大学授课，以帮助专业和商务人士改进他们在职场中的人际沟通技巧。 拉塞尔•F•普罗科特（Russell F. Proctor），北肯塔基大学教授。1990年在一次沟通学会议上与阿德勒相遇，两人就使用故事片作为教学用具达成了共识。多年来，他们围绕沟通这个主题广泛地撰写文章、四处演讲，并合作出版了许多教材。 译者： 黄素菲，台湾师范大学教育心理与辅导研究所博士，曾担任东吴大学专任讲师，并在台北商专、师范大学、台湾艺术学院、东吴大学、实践大学、辅仁大学、海洋大学等学府担任兼职讲师和辅导老师。现任阳明大学学生辅导中心主任。 李恩，自由译者，吉林大学心理学学士，海外工作四年，曾于联合国亚洲总...(展开全部)

One of Andrew Wyeth's most important paintings, "Wind from the Sea" (1947), is also the artist's first full realization of the window as a recurring subject in his art. Wyeth returned to windows during the course of the next 60 years, producing more than 300 remarkable works that explore both the formal and conceptual richness of the subject. Absent from these spare, elegant, a...(展开全部)

One of Andrew Wyeth's most important paintings, "Wind from the Sea" (1947), is also the artist's first full realization of the window as a recurring subject in his art. Wyeth returned to windows during the course of the next 60 years, producing more than 300 remarkable works that explore both the formal and conceptual richness of the subject. Absent from these spare, elegant, a...(展开全部)

空想社会主义者，作家，记者。出生于美国马萨诸塞州契科佩瀑布。在纽约州和德国求过学。当过马萨诸塞州斯普帕菲耳德《联盟报》副主编，纽约《晚邮报》的社论拱笔者。《民族主义》和《新国家》刊物的主编等。1881年写成小资产阶级空想社会主义小说《回顾》。因之而蜚声世界。该小说采用虚构情节的形式描述了确计划的资本主义社会。主张把整个民族分成若干产业大军，保留继承权和资本主义的托拉斯组织，承以大机器带来的新制度。赞同采用和平改良的途径来更替社会制度。因该书的作用，一时成为美国80年代末90年代初民族主义运动的领导者。1897年又发表了《平等》一书，作为《回顾》的续编，但影响较小。