Winner of the National Book Award "Wright Morris seems to me the most important novelist of the American middle generation. Through a large body of work --which, unaccountably, has yet to receive the wide attention it deserves--Mr. Morris has adhered to standards which we have come to identify as those of the most serious literary art. His novel The Field of Vision brilliantly...(展开全部)

A brilliantly original exploration of the interface between feminism, psychoanalysis, semiotics and film theory.

Today’s most advanced neural networks and sophisticated image-analysis methods come from 1950s and ’60s Cold War culture—and many biases and ways of understanding the world from that era persist along with them. Aerial surveillance and reconnaissance shaped all of the technologies that we now refer to as computer vision, including facial recognition. The Birth of Computer Visio...(展开全部)

作者简介 休•昂纳（Hugh Honour）：英国当代著名的艺术史家，1927年9月26日生于英格兰南部苏塞克斯郡海岸城镇伊斯特本，毕业于剑桥大学圣凯萨琳学院（St Catherine's College）。他与自己的终生合作伙伴约翰•弗莱明（John Fleming）合著的《世界艺术史》（A World History of Art, 1982）早已为许多中国读者所熟悉，该书以人类的文明发展为纵轴阐述艺术史的演变，被国际学术界认为是资料最新、阐述最为完整的艺术史通史。1972年，休•昂纳被推选为英国皇家文学院院士。

作者简介 休•昂纳（Hugh Honour）：英国当代著名的艺术史家，1927年9月26日生于英格兰南部苏塞克斯郡海岸城镇伊斯特本，毕业于剑桥大学圣凯萨琳学院（St Catherine's College）。他与自己的终生合作伙伴约翰•弗莱明（John Fleming）合著的《世界艺术史》（A World History of Art, 1982）早已为许多中国读者所熟悉，该书以人类的文明发展为纵轴阐述艺术史的演变，被国际学术界认为是资料最新、阐述最为完整的艺术史通史。1972年，休•昂纳被推选为英国皇家文学院院士。

作者简介 休•昂纳（Hugh Honour）：英国当代著名的艺术史家，1927年9月26日生于英格兰南部苏塞克斯郡海岸城镇伊斯特本，毕业于剑桥大学圣凯萨琳学院（St Catherine's College）。他与自己的终生合作伙伴约翰•弗莱明（John Fleming）合著的《世界艺术史》（A World History of Art, 1982）早已为许多中国读者所熟悉，该书以人类的文明发展为纵轴阐述艺术史的演变，被国际学术界认为是资料最新、阐述最为完整的艺术史通史。1972年，休•昂纳被推选为英国皇家文学院院士。

On November 25, 1970, Japan's most renowned postwar novelist, Yukio Mishima, stunned the world by committing ritual suicide. Here, Marguerite Yourcenar, a brilliant reader of Mishima and a scholar with an eye for the cultural roles of fiction, unravels the author's life and politics: his affection for Western culture, his family and his homosexuality, his brilliant writings, an...(展开全部)

This collection of original essays by preeminent interpreters of continental philosophy explores the question of whether Western thought and culture have been dominated by a vision-centered paradigm of knowledge, ethics, and power. It focuses on the character of vision in modern philosophy and on arguments for and against the view that contemporary life and thought are distinct...(展开全部)

On November 25, 1970, Japan's most renowned postwar novelist, Yukio Mishima, stunned the world by committing ritual suicide. Here, Marguerite Yourcenar, a brilliant reader of Mishima and a scholar with an eye for the cultural roles of fiction, unravels the author's life and politics: his affection for Western culture, his family and his homosexuality, his brilliant writings, an...(展开全部)