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)

尼尔马拉·纳塔瑞杰（Nirmala Nataraj）： 科普作家、编辑，尤其擅长宇宙学、生态学和分子生物学题材，对视觉和表演艺术颇感兴趣。生活在纽约。著有畅销书《地球与太空》。 美国国家航空航天局（National Aeronautics and Space Administration）： 简称NASA，是美国联邦政府的一个行政性科研机构，负责制定、实施美国的民用太空计划于开展航空科学暨太空科学的研究。NASA一直致力于探索浩瀚星空中人类的未知领域，如今已是地球上最权威的航天局，与许多美国国内及国际上的科研机构分享其研究数据。从人类第1次登月、地球2.0的发现，再到发现冥王星上的“心形”冰山区域，NASA承载着亿万人类探索宇宙的梦想与希望，经历过无数次失败后的打击和成功后的喜极而泣，仍然不惜一切代价，为人类的探索梦想投入的资本、最权威尖端的技术，只...(展开全部)

If there remains any doubt Kubrick is one of the giants of the cinema of the 20th century cinema, The Stanley Kubrick Archives should dispel it, both through the revelations contained in the director’s own words and in the observations offered by his collaborators and critics. For fans this book will be the ultimate. For those less acquainted with the master filmmaker's work, o...(展开全部)

This is the first book to explore Stanley Kubrick's archives and the most comprehensive study of the filmmaker to date. In 1968, when Stanley Kubrick was asked to comment on the metaphysical significance of "2001: A Space Odyssey", he replied: 'It's not a message I ever intended to convey in words. 2001 is a nonverbal experience...I tried to create a visual experience, one that...(展开全部)

In Atmospheric Things Derek P. McCormack explores how atmospheres are imagined, understood, and experienced through experiments with a deceptively simple object: the balloon. Since the invention of balloon flight in the late eighteenth century, balloons have drawn crowds at fairs and expositions, inspired the visions of artists and writers, and driven technological development ...(展开全部)

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)

In Atmospheric Things Derek P. McCormack explores how atmospheres are imagined, understood, and experienced through experiments with a deceptively simple object: the balloon. Since the invention of balloon flight in the late eighteenth century, balloons have drawn crowds at fairs and expositions, inspired the visions of artists and writers, and driven technological development ...(展开全部)