When Adam Kussgarten's twin brother is found gunned down just yards from his flat, Adam is drawn out of his solitary, dream-like life into a neon-lit world of forgery, deceit and violence. The Ruins is the story of twin brothers - Adam and Brandon - who haven't spoken for decades, When Brandon is found gunned down just streets from Adam's flat, Brandon's girlfriend enlists Adam...(展开全部)

On the Museum's Ruins presents Douglas Crimp's criticism of contemporary art, its institutions, and its politics alongside photographic works by the artist Louise Lawler to create a collaborative project that is itself an example of postmodern practice at its most provocative. Crimp elaborates the new paradigm of postmodernism through analyses of art practices broadly conceived...(展开全部)

Tracing the roots of the modern American University in German philosophy and in the work of British thinkers such as Newman and Arnold, Bill Readings argues that historically the integrity of the modern university has been linked to the nation-state, which it has served by promoting and protecting the idea of a national culture. However, now the nation-state is in decline, and ...(展开全部)

On the Museum's Ruins presents Douglas Crimp's criticism of contemporary art, its institutions, and its politics alongside photographic works by the artist Louise Lawler to create a collaborative project that is itself an example of postmodern practice at its most provocative. Crimp elaborates the new paradigm of postmodernism through analyses of art practices broadly conceived...(展开全部)

Between 1991 and 2015, Josef Koudelka completed an epic journey across twenty countries bordering the Mediterranean, stopping at over 200 Greek and Roman archaeological sites, relentlessly researching the beauty of the ancient world. Before the Magnum photographer, nobody had attempted to make such a comprehensive photographic record of these artefacts with so much persistence ...(展开全部)

Between 1991 and 2015, Josef Koudelka completed an epic journey across twenty countries bordering the Mediterranean, stopping at over 200 Greek and Roman archaeological sites, relentlessly researching the beauty of the ancient world. Before the Magnum photographer, nobody had attempted to make such a comprehensive photographic record of these artefacts with so much persistence ...(展开全部)

凯文•鲍尔斯 Kevin Powers 美国小说家、诗人，1980年生于弗吉尼亚州里士满，出身于蓝领家庭，父亲是工厂工人。17岁应召入伍，2004年2月至2005年3月在伊拉克摩苏尔和塔拉法尔服役。退伍后，就读于弗吉尼亚州立大学，获得本科学位后；在得克萨斯大学奥斯丁分校获得文科硕士，后来在该校米切纳中心担任诗歌研究员。2012年，出版第一部作品《黄鸟》（The Yellow Birds），获得了海明威奖、《卫报》首作奖，以及美国国家图书奖的最终入围书目。

凯文•鲍尔斯 Kevin Powers 美国小说家、诗人，1980年生于弗吉尼亚州里士满，出身于蓝领家庭，父亲是工厂工人。17岁应召入伍，2004年2月至2005年3月在伊拉克摩苏尔和塔拉法尔服役。退伍后，就读于弗吉尼亚州立大学，获得本科学位后；在得克萨斯大学奥斯丁分校获得文科硕士，后来在该校米切纳中心担任诗歌研究员。2012年，出版第一部作品《黄鸟》（The Yellow Birds），获得了海明威奖、《卫报》首作奖，以及美国国家图书奖的最终入围书目。

Images of ruins may represent the raw realities created by bombs, natural disasters, or factory closings, but the way we see and understand ruins is not raw or unmediated. Rather, looking at ruins, writing about them, and representing them, are acts framed by a long tradition. This unique interdisciplinary collection traces discourses about and representations of ruins from a r...(展开全部)

Ruins is the newest monograph by acclaimed Magnum photographer and bestselling author, Josef Koudelka. For more than twenty years, Koudelka has traveled through the Mediterranean―visiting places such as Italy, Libya, Greece, and Syria―to photograph more than two hundred archaeological sites. Stark and mesmerizing panoramic photographs take the viewer to Delphi, Pompeii, Petra, ...(展开全部)