James Clifford is Professor, Board of Studies in the History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz.

"The Predicament of Culture" is a critical ethnography of the West in its changing relations with other societies. Analyzing cultural practices such as anthropology, travel writing, collecting, and museum displays of tribal art, Clifford shows authoritative accounts of other ways of life to be contingent fictions, now actively contested in postcolonial contexts. His critique ra...(展开全部)

James Clifford is Professor, Board of Studies in the History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz.

"The Predicament of Culture" is a critical ethnography of the West in its changing relations with other societies. Analyzing cultural practices such as anthropology, travel writing, collecting, and museum displays of tribal art, Clifford shows authoritative accounts of other ways of life to be contingent fictions, now actively contested in postcolonial contexts. His critique ra...(展开全部)

迈克尔·苏立文 Michael Sullivan (1916 - )，牛津大学圣凯瑟琳学院荣誉退休院士，曾在伦敦大学、斯坦福大学、剑桥大学等多所高校和研究机构从事教学研究，荣获美国国家人文基金会、古根海姆基金会、洛克菲勒基金会等多所机构颁发的多项荣誉和研究基金。1940年代 来到中国，开始接触中国艺术，结识了庞薰琹、吴作人、丁聪、郁风、关山月、刘开渠等现代中国画家，此后又与几代中国艺术家和诸多艺术机构来往密切。毕生专注于中国艺术的研究和传播，是最早向西方介绍中国现代艺术的西方学者之一，并成为这一领域的国际权威和引领者。苏立文教授撰写有《20世纪中国艺术与艺术家》《艺术中国》《东西方艺术的交会》等多部深具影响力的专著。

迈克尔·苏立文 Michael Sullivan (1916 - )，牛津大学圣凯瑟琳学院荣誉退休院士，曾在伦敦大学、斯坦福大学、剑桥大学等多所高校和研究机构从事教学研究，荣获美国国家人文基金会、古根海姆基金会、洛克菲勒基金会等多所机构颁发的多项荣誉和研究基金。1940年代 来到中国，开始接触中国艺术，结识了庞薰琹、吴作人、丁聪、郁风、关山月、刘开渠等现代中国画家，此后又与几代中国艺术家和诸多艺术机构来往密切。毕生专注于中国艺术的研究和传播，是最早向西方介绍中国现代艺术的西方学者之一，并成为这一领域的国际权威和引领者。苏立文教授撰写有《20世纪中国艺术与艺术家》《艺术中国》《东西方艺术的交会》等多部深具影响力的专著。

Yunte Huang takes a most original "ethnographic" approach to more and less well-known American texts as he traces what he calls the transpacific displacement of cultural meanings through twentieth-century America's imaging of Asia. Informed by the politics of linguistic appropriation and disappropriation, Transpacific Displacement opens with a radically new reading of Imagism t...(展开全部)

Yunte Huang takes a most original "ethnographic" approach to more and less well-known American texts as he traces what he calls the transpacific displacement of cultural meanings through twentieth-century America's imaging of Asia. Informed by the politics of linguistic appropriation and disappropriation, Transpacific Displacement opens with a radically new reading of Imagism t...(展开全部)

"Machine art" is neither a movement nor a genre, but encompasses diverse ways in which artists engage with technical systems. In this book, Andreas Broeckmann examines a variety of twentieth- and early twenty-first-century artworks that articulate people's relationships with machines. In the course of his investigation, Broeckmann traces historical lineages that connect art of ...(展开全部)

Fables of Modernity expands the territory for cultural and literary criticism by introducing the concept of the cultural fable. Laura Brown shows how cultural fables arise from material practices in eighteenth-century England. These fables, the author says, reveal the eighteenth-century origins of modernity and its connection with two related paradigms of difference—the woman a...(展开全部)