The work of the French cultural critic Louis Marin (1931-1992) is of importance to scholars concerned with issues of representation. This text, first published in France in 1977, presents Marin's theories about the aims of painting in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. A meditation on the work of Poussin and Caravaggio and on their milieux, the book explores a number of not...(展开全部)

The work of the French cultural critic Louis Marin (1931-1992) is of importance to scholars concerned with issues of representation. This text, first published in France in 1977, presents Marin's theories about the aims of painting in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. A meditation on the work of Poussin and Caravaggio and on their milieux, the book explores a number of not...(展开全部)

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sympathizer (now an HBO series) comes a moving and unflinchingly personal meditation on the literary forms of otherness and a bold call for expansive political solidarity. Born in war-ravaged Vietnam, Viet Nguyen arrived in the United States as a child refugee in 1975. The Nguyen family would soon move to San Jose, California, where...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 In the fast-paced, high-urban landscape of Seoul, C and K are brothers who have fallen in love with the same woman - Se-yeon - who tears at both of them as they all try desperately to find real connection in an atomized world. A spectral, nameless narrator haunts the edges of their lives as he tells of his work helping the lost and hurting find escape through suicide. D...(展开全部)

The Chinese way of appreciating a painting is often expressed by the words du hua," to read a painting." How does one do that? Because art is a visual lanuage, words alone cannot adequately convey its expressive dimension. How to read Chinese Paintings seeks to visually analyze thirty-six paintings and calligraphies from the encyclopedic collection of the Metripolitan Museum of...(展开全部)

Clues to the meaning of many of the masterpieces of art history lie in a rich system of symbols, themes, and motifs that often eludes modern museum-goers. The intimate knowledge of Christian theology, Greek and Roman mythology, and folklore that was so vivid in the minds of viewers during the Renaissance is rarely part of the preparation the contemporary viewer brings to a pain...(展开全部)

帕特里克·德·莱克(Patrick de Rynck)， 1963年出生，古典学者和翻译家 丁宁，北京大学艺术学院教授，著有《接受之维》、《美术心理学》、《绵延之维——走向艺术史哲学》、《艺术的深度》、》、《西方美术史十五讲》、《图像缤纷——视觉艺术的文化维度》、《美术鉴赏》和《感动心灵的西方美术》；译有《传统与欲望——从大卫到德拉克罗瓦》、《毕沙罗传》、《注视被忽视的事物——静物画四论》、《媒体文化》、《视觉品位》和《博物馆怀疑论》等

In this classic novel by the best-selling author of The Lover, erotic intrigue masks a chillingly deceptive form of madness. Elisabeth Alione is convalescing in a hotel in rural France when she meets two men and another woman. The sophisticated dalliance among the four serves to obscure an underlying violence, which, when the curtain of civilization is drawn aside, reveals in h...(展开全部)

In this classic novel by the best-selling author of The Lover, erotic intrigue masks a chillingly deceptive form of madness. Elisabeth Alione is convalescing in a hotel in rural France when she meets two men and another woman. The sophisticated dalliance among the four serves to obscure an underlying violence, which, when the curtain of civilization is drawn aside, reveals in h...(展开全部)

Which of us, when finding ourselves in the presence of a painting, has not sensed that we lack the keys to decipher it? We feel an emotional response, but the work still seems to evade our understanding. Francoise Barbe-Gall combines a nuanced understanding of the way viewers respond to paintings with a rich knowledge of their context and circumstances of their creation. The re...(展开全部)