Robert Brain traces the origins of artistic modernism to specific technologies of perception developed in late-nineteenth-century laboratories. Brain argues that the thriving fin-de-siècle field of “physiological aesthetics,” which sought physiological explanations for the capacity to appreciate beauty and art, changed the way poets, artists, and musicians worked and brought a ...(展开全部)

“Rich, learned, briskly written, maddening yet necessary study.”—Lee Siegel, New York Times Book Review Peter Gay explores the shocking modernist rebellion that, beginning in the 1840s, transformed art, literature, music, and film. Modernism presents a thrilling pageant of heretics that includes Oscar Wilde, Pablo Picasso, D. W. Griffiths, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, T. S....(展开全部)

二十世纪的西方艺术历史是一个暴风雨般反叛、改变、价值重估和更新的叙事史。对于我们这些生活在这段历史后半段的人来说，很难察觉这个故事现在已经结束了——就是说，现代主义已经是过去的事了。尽管少数鼓吹者还存在，还很活跃，但是艺术追求的主流已经变了，只是给批评家和历史学家留下了叙述与清点这段历史的任务。 但是至今还没有人提供这样一个关于现代主义的综合性论叙。原因显然在于无人有能力对建筑师、舞蹈设计者、作曲家、电影制作者、小说家、画家和诗人的作品进行综合把握和评论。唯一的选择是省略现代主义观念，聚焦个别作品，这些作品的意义在于它们引起了所有门类的艺术和艺术家的改变。

In this book, David McMahan offers the first comprehensive attempt to chart the development of "modern Buddhism." His position is critical but empathetic: while he presents modern Buddhism as a construction of numerous parties with varying interests, he does not reduce it to a mistake, a misrepresentation, or a fabrication. Rather, he presents modern Buddhism as a complex histo...(展开全部)

“Rich, learned, briskly written, maddening yet necessary study.”—Lee Siegel, New York Times Book Review Peter Gay explores the shocking modernist rebellion that, beginning in the 1840s, transformed art, literature, music, and film. Modernism presents a thrilling pageant of heretics that includes Oscar Wilde, Pablo Picasso, D. W. Griffiths, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, T. S....(展开全部)

二十世纪的西方艺术历史是一个暴风雨般反叛、改变、价值重估和更新的叙事史。对于我们这些生活在这段历史后半段的人来说，很难察觉这个故事现在已经结束了——就是说，现代主义已经是过去的事了。尽管少数鼓吹者还存在，还很活跃，但是艺术追求的主流已经变了，只是给批评家和历史学家留下了叙述与清点这段历史的任务。 但是至今还没有人提供这样一个关于现代主义的综合性论叙。原因显然在于无人有能力对建筑师、舞蹈设计者、作曲家、电影制作者、小说家、画家和诗人的作品进行综合把握和评论。唯一的选择是省略现代主义观念，聚焦个别作品，这些作品的意义在于它们引起了所有门类的艺术和艺术家的改变。

In this book, David McMahan offers the first comprehensive attempt to chart the development of "modern Buddhism." His position is critical but empathetic: while he presents modern Buddhism as a construction of numerous parties with varying interests, he does not reduce it to a mistake, a misrepresentation, or a fabrication. Rather, he presents modern Buddhism as a complex histo...(展开全部)

The stories in Julian Barnes' long-awaited third collection are attuned to rhythms and currents: of the body, of love and sex, illness and death, connections and conversations. Each character is bent to a pulse, propelled on by success and loss, by new beginnings and endings. In "East Wind" a divorced estate agent falls in love with a European waitress, but is tempted, despite ...(展开全部)

Interpreting the work of one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century, The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt rereads Arendt's political philosophy in light of newly gained insights into the historico-cultural background of her work. Arguing against the standard interpretation of Hannah Arendt as an anti-modernist lover of the Greek polis, author Seyla Benhabib co...(展开全部)

This is an exploration of the ambivalent relationship between revolutionary politics and modernist or avant-garde art. Williams clarifies many of the issues that have dogged recent critical discussion: the term “modernism” itself; the distinction between modernism and avant garde; and the possibility of a cultural theory “beyond the modern” which avoids the pitfalls of postmode...(展开全部)