In this richly illustrated book, Oleg Grabar shares a veteran art historian's love for the sheer sensuality of ornamentation. Grabar analyzes early and medieval Islamic objects and uses this art to show how ornament in general enables a direct, immediate encounter between viewers and art objects from any culture and time period.

An introduction to the art of decorative patterning, of equal value to craftworkers, collectors and students of art history. Trilling analyzes the historical importance of ornament across the world, whether in the monumental architecture of Mycenean Greece or the inlaid vessels of Zhou Dynasty China, in the bronze mirrors of early Celtic Britain, or the carved and woven ornamen...(展开全部)

Architecture needs mechanisms that allow it to become connected to culture. It achieves this by continually capturing the forces that shape society as material to work with. Architecture's materiality is therefore a composite one, made up of visible forces (structural, functional, physical) as well as invisible forces (cultural, political, temporal). Architecture progresses thr...(展开全部)

The story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s precocity is so familiar as to be taken for granted. In scholarship and popular culture, Mozart the Wunderkind is often seen as belonging to a category of childhood all by himself. But treating the young composer as an anomaly risks minimizing his impact. In this book, Adeline Mueller examines how Mozart shaped the social and cultural reev...(展开全部)

A new edition of the classic volume, first published in 1856, presents a comprehensive, organized catalog of decorative elements from various European and Asian cultures, featuring more than two thousand beautifully rendered patterns and designs, accompanied by helpful captions and commentary.

Review "Scott Lash and Celia Lury reconceptualize our understanding of cultural industries in the context of globalization. By analysing and documenting the shift from representation to objects in contemporary production of meaning, they open new avenues for research on communication and culture: things materialize our imaginary, we communicate through objects. This pathbreakin...(展开全部)

In the first half of the twentieth century, Theodor Adorno wrote about the ‘culture industry’. For Adorno, culture too along with the products of factory labour was increasingly becoming a commodity. Now, in what they call the ‘global culture industry’, Scott Lash and Celia Lury argue that Adorno’s worst nightmares have come true. Their new book tells the compelling story of ho...(展开全部)

Siegfried Kracauer was one of the 20th century's major cultural critics, a prolific scholar and a theorist of film. In this volume his writings on modern society are translated into English. This book is a celebration of the masses - their tastes, amusements, and everyday lives. Taking up themes of modernity, such as isolation and alienation, urban culture and the relation betw...(展开全部)

作者简介： 齐格弗里德·克拉考尔 1889年生于法兰克福，1966 年逝世于纽约。长期任《法兰克福报》编辑，直至1933年经法国流亡美国。出版著作有:《作为科学的社会学》《金斯特》《雇员们》《雅克o奥芬巴赫和他的时代的巴黎》《宣传和纳粹战争电影》《从卡里加利到希特勒》《精神卫星》《电影理论》《大众装饰》《历史：终结前的终事》《文集》。 译者简介： 孙柏 文学博士，现任教于中国人民大学文学院，主要研究领域：电影理论、中国电影史、中西戏剧文化交流、现代戏剧、文化研究等。近年来主要著作：《十九世纪西方演剧与晚清国人的接受》(2021)， 译著《我们时代的精神状况》(2018)。 薄一荻 南开大学外国语学院德语系讲师，博士毕业于北京大学外国语学院，博士论文题目为《爱情与理性的消逝--二十世纪两部德语<图兰朵>改编研究》。主要研究方向为中德文学文化关系、近现代...(展开全部)