Today both reality and entertainment crowd our fields of vision with brutal imagery. The pervasiveness of images of torture, horror, and war has all but demolished the twentieth-century hope that such imagery might shock us into a less alienated state, or aid in the creation of a just social order. What to do now? When to look, when to turn away? Genre-busting author Maggie Nel...(展开全部)

Reality and entertainment crowd our fields of vision with brutal imagery. The pervasiveness of images of torture, horror and war has all but demolished the twentieth-century hope that such imagery might shock us into a less alienated state or aid in the creation of a just social order. Maggie Nelson brilliantly navigates the contemporary predicament, with an eye to the question...(展开全部)

This masterly collection of texts interrogates the raging academic question, What is art history? Editor Preziosi, who directs ground-breaking critical studies of art history and museology, provides introductions to 35 challenging readings gathered in nine chapters. This plethora of alternatives is curiously complicated, even obfuscating. Covered here are the most current and r...(展开全部)

This anthology provides a single-volume overview of the essential theoretical debates in the anthropology of art. Drawing together significant work in the field from the second half of the twentieth century, it enables readers to appreciate the art of different cultures at different times. Advances a cross-cultural concept of art that moves beyond traditional distinctions betw...(展开全部)

Mr. Danto argues that recent developments in the artworld, in particular the production of works of art that cannot be told from ordinary things, make urgent the need for a new theory of art and make plain the factors such a theory can and cannot involve. In the course of constructing such a theory, he seeks to demonstrate the relationship between philosophy and art, as well as...(展开全部)

作者苏珊·克莱伯德，是“科伦拜恩枪击案”中迪伦·克莱伯德的母亲。事发后的数年里，她仔细反省了家庭生活的细枝末节，试图理解精神健康障碍与暴力行为之间的交叉联系。她没有被哀伤打垮，相反，逐步成为了一名推动者，全力投入到推进精神健康意识和疾病干预活动中去，并且成效卓著。本书的全部收益将捐献给专注精神健康议题研究的慈善机构和组织。

Art history traditionally classifies works of art by country as well as period, but often political borders and cultural boundaries are highly complex and fluid. Questions of identity, policy, and exchange make it difficult to determine the "place" of art, and often the art itself results from these conflicts of geography and culture. Addressing an important approach to art his...(展开全部)

Art history traditionally classifies works of art by country as well as period, but often political borders and cultural boundaries are highly complex and fluid. Questions of identity, policy, and exchange make it difficult to determine the "place" of art, and often the art itself results from these conflicts of geography and culture. Addressing an important approach to art his...(展开全部)

Good game design happens when you view your game from as many perspectives as possible. Written by one of the world's top game designers, The Art of Game Design presents 100+ sets of questions, or different lenses, for viewing a game’s design, encompassing diverse fields such as psychology, architecture, music, visual design, film, software engineering, theme park design, mathe...(展开全部)

本书作者Jesse Schell是美国卡内基-梅隆大学娱乐科技中心教授、Schell游戏公司CEO，曾撰写《The Art of Game Design》一书。在来到卡内基-梅隆大学大学前，他是迪斯尼虚拟现实工作室创意总监。2004年，他被《MIT Technology Review》评为世界100名顶尖青年创新者。Jesse Schell曾任国际游戏开发者协会主席，并曾获得迪斯尼在线游戏优秀设计师奖。本书第一版曾获游戏开发者前线奖。