By the best-selling author of The Metrosexual Guide to Style , an amusing tour of vice and its virtues and the anti-self help book of all time. In the age of Oprah, Dr. Phil, and countless other self-help disciplinarians, indulging in any kind of pleasurable pastime is on the brink of extinction. But it's not too late to revive those lost pleasures that make life worth livin...(展开全部)

In his scathing The Theory of the Leisure Class , Thorstein Veblen produced a landmark study of affluent American society that exposes, with brilliant ruthlessness, the habits of production and waste that link invidious business tactics and barbaric social behavior. Veblen's analysis of the evolutionary process sees greed as the overriding motive in the modern economy, and wit...(展开全部)

The Chinese essay is arguably China’s most distinctive contribution to modern world literature, and the period of its greatest influence and popularity—the mid-1930s—is the central concern of this book. What Charles Laughlin terms "the literature of leisure" is a modern literary response to the cultural past that manifests itself most conspicuously in the form of short, informa...(展开全部)

Is there a moment in history when a work receives its ideal interpretation? Or is negotiation always required to preserve the past and accommodate the present? The freedom of interpretation, Charles Rosen suggests in these sparkling explorations of music and literature, exists in a delicate balance with fidelity to the identity of the original work. Rosen cautions us to avoid d...(展开全部)

一本英語世界最受歡迎的藝術管理的理論實務 榮獲國家文化藝術基金會贊助《藝術管理這一行》在英語世界普遍被採用為專業教科書，是藝術管理界的經典作品。其內容完整，立論周延，觸及了學習者最關心的兩大問題，亦即「藝術管理最新的思維」、「藝術管理人的未來趨勢」。 新推出的第二版《藝術管理這一行》譯文更加精進，版面內容全部更新，以更流暢的視覺效果幫助目前正在藝術管理界的專業人員，訓練自己提升解決問題的能力。在每一章的背後都列出多個問題，希望你想一想，動動腦，也許你就是為藝術管理界開創新局的金頭腦！ 本書是少數能夠囊括藝術管理各個面向的藝術管理相關著作之一。從管理的所有面向（計畫、行銷、財務、經濟、組織設計、人事、與團體動態），提供藝術管理人員理論與實務應用之資訊。全世界的藝術管理人與藝術組織，所面臨的問題雖然不盡相同，但是仍然有其共通之處，而不論機構的型態，將相...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

The question of the canon has been the subject of debate in academic circles for over fifteen years. "Pleasure and Change" contains two lectures on this important subject by the distinguished literary critic Sir Frank Kermode. In essays that were originally delivered as Tanner Lectures at Berkeley in November of 2001, Kermode reinterprets the question of canon formation in ligh...(展开全部)

Sociology of the Arts is a comprehensive overview of the sociology of art and an authoritative work of scholarship by a leading expert in the field. The book synthesizes the various theoretical models of art sociology, and provides empirical examples as well as stimulating exemplars of sociological work on the arts. Case studies of art works are from both ends of the cultural s...(展开全部)