Since the inventions of porcelain and gunpowder, Chinese artists have experimented with unconventional artistic materials and used conventional materials in unorthodox ways. This groundbreaking volume is the first publication to expound the trans-historical importance of materiality in Chinese art by bringing together essays from leading scholars, curators, and conservators. Es...(展开全部)

Digital tools have launched architecture into a dizzying new era, one in which wood, stone, metal, glass, and other traditional materials are augmented by pixels and code. In this ambitious exploration, an eminent thinker examines what, exactly, the building blocks of architecture have meant over the centuries and how technology may—or may not—be changing how we think about the...(展开全部)

Arlette Farge’s Le Goût de l’archive is widely regarded as a historiographical classic. While combing through two-hundred-year-old judicial records from the Archives of the Bastille, historian Farge was struck by the extraordinarily intimate portrayal they provided of the lives of the poor in pre-Revolutionary France, especially women. She was seduced by the sensuality of old m...(展开全部)

An exquisite appreciation of the distinctive rewards of historical research and a classic guide to the personal yet disciplined craft of discovery, now in its first English translation. Arlette Farge’s Le Goût de l’archive is widely regarded as a historiographical classic. While combing through two-hundred-year-old judicial records from the Archives of the Bastille, historian F...(展开全部)

巫鸿，于1987年获哈佛大学美术史与人类学双重学位。随即在该校美术史系任教，于1994年获终身教授职位。同年，受芝加哥大学聘请主持该校亚洲艺术的教学、研究项目，并执“斯德本特殊贡献教授”讲席，并任该校东亚中心主任，及斯马特美术馆顾问策展人。巫鸿的研究和策展领域包括古代和当代两方面。在当代美术中，他在出国后于80年代初、中叶在哈佛大学为当时刚刚进入国际艺坛的十几个中国艺术家举办了个展和群展，展览者包括陈丹青、张宏图、罗中立、李华生、裘德树、翁如兰、木心等。近十年来他更将当代艺术作为主攻方向，致立提高国外对中国现代艺术的理解和研究水平，加强国内外艺术家、评论家和策展人之间的联系。于1998年在美国策划了大型巡回展览“瞬间：90年代末的中国实验艺术”，并出版同名著作，试图把对中国当代美术的介绍和研究从“潮流”转向“个人”。2000年他策划了具有实验性的“关...(展开全部)

"Warmly recommended. It is that rare achievement, a lively book which at the same time takes the fullest possible advantage of scholarly knowledge."--Charles C. Gillespie, "New York Times Book Review"

Joshua A. Fogel is professor of history at York University, Toronto, and a specialist in the history of cultural and political ties between China and Japan in the modern era.

The modern histories of China and Japan are inexorably intertwined. Their relationship is perhaps most obvious in the fields of political, economic, and military history, but it is no less true in cultural and art history. Yet the traffic in artistic practices and practitioners between China and Japan remains an understudied field. In this volume, an international group of scho...(展开全部)

With a new introduction by James Wood Scobie, a police officer serving in a wartime west-African state, is distrusted — being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in so doing, he is forced to betray everything he believes in, with drastic and tragic consequences.

With a new introduction by James Wood Scobie, a police officer serving in a wartime west-African state, is distrusted — being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in so doing, he is forced to betray everything he believes in, with drastic and tragic consequences.