The Books by Sylvie Lacerte Vision in Motion "This book is written for the artist and the layman, for everyone interested in his relationship to our existing civilization" (Moholy-Nagy, Vision in Motion, 1947, p.5) The opening sentence of this book, written by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy in 1946 and published posthumously by his wife Sibyl Moholy-Nagy in 1947, illustrates in an unquesti...(展开全部)

Written between May 1991 and February 1994, and ending just two weeks before his death from an AIDS-related illness , Derek Jarman’s entries in Smiling in Slow Motion pick up where Modern Nature left off. Friends and enemies are reviewed as he races through his last years painting, filmmaking, gardening, and annoying his targets through his involvement in radical politics. Infu...(展开全部)

爱德华·P. 亚历山大 Edward P. Alexander 教授是国际知名博物馆学家，曾任美国纽约州历史学会会长、威斯康星州历史学会会长等，是美国德拉华大学博物馆学学科的创始人，并荣登美国博物馆协会“百年荣誉榜”。 玛丽·亚历山大 Mary Alexander 是美国华盛顿特区的一位博物馆教育员和管理员，曾在多家博物馆任职，并出版多本博物馆学术研究著作。

Why read Leibniz today? Can we still learn from him and not just about him? This book argues that Leibniz offers a powerful, productive model for transdisciplinary thinking that can push back against the narrowness of the humanities today. Richard Halpern recasts Leibniz as a great writer as well as a great philosopher, demonstrating that his philosophical project cannot be ful...(展开全部)

The 4,789 photographs in this definitive selection show the human figure -- models almost all undraped -- engaged in over 160 different types of action: running, climbing stairs, tumbling, dressing, undressing, hopping on one foot, dancing, etc. Children walking, crawling and many dozens of other activities.

Aby Warburg (1866-1929) is best known as the originator of the discipline of iconology and as the founder of the institute that bears his name. His followers included such celebrated art historians of the twentieth century as Erwin Panofsky, Edgar Wind, and Fritz Saxl. But his heirs developed, for the most part, a domesticated iconology based on the interpretation of symbolic m...(展开全部)

Karl Marx is the most historically foundational and systematic critic of capitalism to date, and the years since the 2008 financial crisis have witnessed a rebirth of his popular appeal. In a world of rising income inequality, right-wing nationalisms, and global climate change, people are again looking to the father of modern socialism for answers. As this book argues, every er...(展开全部)

An eminent psychologist offers a major new theory of human cognition: movement, not language, is the foundation of thought.

Art in Motion is the first comprehensive examination of the aesthetics of animation in its many forms. It gives an overview of the relationship between animation studies and media studies, then focuses on specific aesthetic issues concerning flat and dimensional animation, full and limited animation, and new technologies. A series of studies on abstract animation, audiences, re...(展开全部)

An eminent psychologist offers a major new theory of human cognition: movement, not language, is the foundation of thought.