Raphael is a dumpsite boy. He spends his days wading through mountains of steaming trash, sifting it, sorting it, breathing it, sleeping next to it. Then one unlucky-lucky day, Raphael's world turns upside down. A small leather bag falls into his hands. It's a bag of clues. It's a bag of hope. It's a bag that will change everything. Soon Raphael and his friends Gardo and Rat ar...(展开全部)

Seinfeld as a contemporary adaptation of Etherege's Restoration comedy of manners The Man of Mode? Friends as a reworking of Shakespeare's romantic comedy Much Ado About Nothing? Star Wars as an adaptation of Spenser's epic poem, The Faerie Queene? The popular culture that surrounds us in our daily lives bears a striking similarity to some of the great works of literature of...(展开全部)

Presenting this critical overview, at a time when interest in aesthetics and managements studies is rapidly increasing, Derrick Chong explores a vital sub-discipline: arts management. Using a diverse range of sources that include contributions from contemporary artists, prominent management theorists and the experience of arts managers, the topics discussed include: arts resear...(展开全部)

Presenting this critical overview, at a time when interest in aesthetics and managements studies is rapidly increasing, Derrick Chong explores a vital sub-discipline: arts management. Using a diverse range of sources that include contributions from contemporary artists, prominent management theorists and the experience of arts managers, the topics discussed include: arts resear...(展开全部)

The Letter Killers Club is a secret society of self-described “conceivers” who, to preserve the purity of their conceptions, will commit nothing to paper. (What, after all, is your run-of-the-mill scribbler of stories if not an accomplished corruptor of conceptions?) The logic of the club is strict and uncompromising. Every Saturday, members meet in a firelit room filled with e...(展开全部)

丹尼斯·J·斯波勒，享誉国际的教授、学者、作家与艺术家。他在中央密歇根大学获演讲和戏剧专业学士学位，同时辅修音乐；在爱荷华大学获舞台设计与技术专业的硕士学位。他曾担任宾州州立大学、亚利桑那大学等美国多所学校的终身教授、系主任或院长。教学经验包括人文与美术等 多种学科领域。他还曾从事专业的演唱事业，设计舞台布景与照明作品，有《感知艺术》《穿越艺术的现实》《创作的冲动：艺术品介绍》《视觉艺术指南》等多种著作出版，并有大量期刊文章与诗歌作品。 译者 史梦阳，毕业于北京外国语大学，翻译专业硕士。与他人合译《舞蹈学导论》《代寻旧日时光》，独立翻译《我不要我们永远在一起》。

When it first appeared in 1964, Stuart Hall and Paddy Whannel's The Popular Arts opened up an almost unprecedented field of analysis and inquiry into contemporary popular culture. Counter to the prevailing views of the time, Hall and Whannel recognized popular culture's social importance and considered it worthy of serious study. In their analysis of everything from Westerns an...(展开全部)

The Chinese art collection in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is one of the finest outside East Asia, with particularly superb holdings of paintings and ceramics, along with important sculptures, bronzes and examples of the decorative arts. Some 100 objects have been selected here to represent its riches, arranged to explore themes such as religion or the scholar tradition thr...(展开全部)

丹尼斯·J·斯波勒，享誉国际的教授、学者、作家与艺术家。他在中央密歇根大学获演讲和戏剧专业学士学位，同时辅修音乐；在爱荷华大学获舞台设计与技术专业的硕士学位。他曾担任宾州州立大学、亚利桑那大学等美国多所学校的终身教授、系主任或院长。教学经验包括人文与美术等 多种学科领域。他还曾从事专业的演唱事业，设计舞台布景与照明作品，有《感知艺术》《穿越艺术的现实》《创作的冲动：艺术品介绍》《视觉艺术指南》等多种著作出版，并有大量期刊文章与诗歌作品。 译者 史梦阳，毕业于北京外国语大学，翻译专业硕士。与他人合译《舞蹈学导论》《代寻旧日时光》，独立翻译《我不要我们永远在一起》。