乔纳森·克拉里，美国当代艺术评论家，哥伦比亚大学当代艺术与理论迈耶·夏皮洛教席讲座教授，“区域丛书”（Zone Books）主编，《十月》杂志（October）编辑顾问，著有《观察者的技术：论19世纪的视觉与现代性》《知觉的悬置：注意力、景观与现代文化》《24/7：晚期资本主义与睡眠的终结》等书。

In Techniques of the Observer Jonathan Crary provides a dramatically new perspective on the visual culture of the nineteenth century, reassessing problems of both visual modernism and social modernity.Inverting conventional approaches, Crary considers the problem of visuality not through the study of art works and images, but by analyzing the historical construction of the obse...(展开全部)

The impact of constant technological change upon our perception of the world is so pervasive as to have become a commonplace of modern society. But this was not always the case; as Wolfgang Schivelbusch points out in this fascinating study, our adaptation to technological change—the development of our modern, industrialized consciousness—was very much a learned behavior. In The...(展开全部)

In this remarkable new study, the renowned historian and theorist of early cinema turns his attention to the work of Fritz Lang, proposing new readings of the entire output of one of cinema's foremost directors. Gunning examines the films not only as a stylistically coherent body of work, but as an attempt to portray the modern world through cinema. The world of modernity in wh...(展开全部)

The Europeans is richly enthralling, panoramic cultural history of nineteenth-century Europe, told through the intertwined lives of three remarkable people: a great singer, Pauline Viardot, a great writer, Ivan Turgenev, and a great connoisseur, Pauline's husband Louis. Their passionate, ambitious lives were bound up with an astonishing array of writers, composers and painters ...(展开全部)

Fables of Modernity expands the territory for cultural and literary criticism by introducing the concept of the cultural fable. Laura Brown shows how cultural fables arise from material practices in eighteenth-century England. These fables, the author says, reveal the eighteenth-century origins of modernity and its connection with two related paradigms of difference—the woman a...(展开全部)

本书是美国著名中国现代美术史学者安雅兰1998年在纽约古根海姆博物馆策划的大型展览“危机中的一个世纪:20世纪中国艺术中的现代与传统”的展览图录。该展览试图对一个世纪以来的中国艺术作一次概括性的回顾和总结。在书中作者把现当代中国美术划分为四个时期，即“中国画的革新，1850一1950";“现代主义者，1920-1950";“新中国艺术，1950-1980";以及“传统的改造，1980至今”，并分别描述和分析了各个时期的风格特点以及其时代特征。 Between 1850 and today, China has undergone an unprecedented series of shocks and transformations. This dramatic period -- which has seen urban industrializ...(展开全部)

贡德‧弗兰克（Andre Gunder Frank，1929—2005），生于柏林，当代西方知名学者。1957年毕业于美国芝加哥大学，获得经济学博士学位。1978年获巴黎第八大学政治经济学国家博士学位。曾在欧洲、北美和拉丁美洲多所大学执教。弗兰克一直致力于世界体系史、当代国际政治、经济和社会运动的研究，为依附理论代表人物之一，也是全球史研究的开拓者之一。 弗兰克思想敏锐，著作颇丰，一生著书40多部，文章1000多篇。主要作品有：《世界体系：500年还是5000年？》（The World System: Five Hundred Years or Five Thousand?,与巴里·K.吉尔斯合著）、《白银资本：重视经济全球化中的东方》（ReOrient: Global Economy in the Asian Age）、遗作《19世纪大转型》（Re...(展开全部)