"The Invisible Dragon" made a lot of noise for a little book. When it was originally published in 1993 it was championed by artists for its forceful call for a reconsideration of beauty - and savaged by more theoretically oriented critics who dismissed the very concept of beauty as naive, igniting a debate that has shown no sign of flagging. With this revised and expanded editi...(展开全部)

戴夫·希基（Dave Hickey 1939- ），美国当代著名的艺术批评家、文化批评家之一，因其特立独行和直言不讳，被戏称为“艺术批评界的坏小子”“艺术批评界让人头痛的天才”，以对抗学院派艺术批评、强调自由艺术市场的价值、召唤"美的回归"而蜚声当代艺术批评界。

Dave Hickey's "The Invisible Dragon" exploded like a bomb in the world of art criticism when it was originally published in 1993. Championed by artists for its forceful call for attention to beauty, and savaged by more theoretically oriented critics who had long dismissed the very concept of beauty as naive, the book ignited a debate that has shown no sign of flagging. With thi...(展开全部)

A fierce typhoon strikes Tokyo one night, flooding the city streets. Someone unlawfully removes a manhole cover, and a little boy out searching for a lost pet goes missing, possibly drowned in the sewers. Is it murder or accidental? These events bring together a struggling journalist named Kosaka, who is grappling with the ghosts of his past, and two young men who may or may no...(展开全部)

多年以来，贸易城市英勇地对抗他们的敌人——恰斯人（Chalcedeans）。不过，如果不是依靠蓝龙婷黛丽雅（Tintaglia）的力量，他们无法抵御敌人的侵略。作为回报，商人们承诺帮助婷黛丽雅的那些流落在海中的海蛇们沿着雨野原河向上游迁徙，以找到一处安全的避难所，婷黛丽雅希望籍此可以光复她的种群。然而为时已晚，那些新孵化的小龙已经受到伤害变得赢弱不堪，随时可能死去。少数幸存者却不能使用它们的翅膀；无法飞翔，它们便不能狩猎，而且很容易被那些相信龙肉可以疗伤的人类猎人所伤害。 这时，婷黛丽雅却消失了，而商人们也厌倦了花费巨大的人力和财力去照顾那些无用的幼龙。议会担心如果停止供养幼龙，这些饥饿而遭到忽视的生物会变得狂暴——或者死在酸腐的河岸上。为了避免这样的灾难，幼龙们决定沿着这条危险的河流继续朔流而上，去寻找凯尔辛格拉（Kelsingra）——它们古老而...(展开全部)

Emili Rosell, the young owner of one of Barcelona's top galleries, receives an old manuscript written by an Italian architect about the 'Invisible City' - an ambitious project dreamt up by King Charles III to build an alternative capital city in the Ebro delta. The manuscript tells of a lost masterpiece by the Venetian painter Tiepolo, and the site of the Invisible City is wher...(展开全部)

As everyone knows, the United States Constitution is a tangible, visible document. Many see it in fact as a sacred text, holding no meaning other than that which is clearly visible on the page. Yet as renowned legal scholar Laurence Tribe shows, what is not written in the Constitution plays a key role in its interpretation. Indeed some of the most contentious Constitutional deb...(展开全部)

The sweep of a century, the hand of history, three women whose lives will never be the same again. As the twentieth century dawns, so begins one of the most dramatic periods in the history of South America. Women are emancipated, Che Guevara and Fidel Castro free Cuba, the Perons take power in Argentina, and three generations of Firielli women are to live, love, and fight for ...(展开全部)

The 'invisible masterpiece' is an unattainable ideal, a work into which a dream of absolute art is incorporated but can never be realized. This book shows the variety of ways in which the status and meaning of the masterpiece have been elevated and denigrated since the early nineteenth century. The ‘invisible masterpiece’ is an unattainable ideal, a work into which a dream of a...(展开全部)