"Why Your 5 Year Old Could Not Have Done That" is Susie Hodges passionate and persuasive argument against the most common disparaging remark levelled at modern art. In this enjoyable and thought-provoking book, she examines 100 works of modern art that have attracted critical and public hostility from Cy Twomblys scribbled "Olympia" (1957), Jean-Michel Basquiats crude but spont...(展开全部)

苏西·霍奇为成人和儿童写了70余本书。 她在学校和学院里教授艺术史和实用艺术课程， 向成人和儿童做艺术方面的演讲， 给各种机构撰写艺术类教材。 她从事绘画与绘图创作已超过15年， 运营着一家集写作与绘画为一体、适合各年龄段人士学习的工作室。 在本书中， 苏西·霍奇以引发公众批评甚至敌意的100件艺术作品为例， 对贬低现代艺术最常见的言论进行了卓有说服力、 充满热情的讨论， 说明了现代艺术不是、 也从不曾是孩童的把戏。

'To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world.' Oscar Wilde More than ever before, we live in a culture that excoriates inactivity and demonizes idleness. Work, connectivity and a constant flow of information are the cultural norms, and a permanent busyness pervades even our quietest moments. Little wonder so many of us are burning out. In a culture that tacitl...(展开全部)

We live in a culture that demonizes idleness. Work, connectivity and a constant flow of information are the cultural norms. We are exhausted - but we fear pausing, in case we look lazy. In Not Working, psychoanalyst Josh Cohen explores the paradoxical pleasures of inactivity, arguing that a good life requires freedom from the demand to be perpetually active. Drawing on his pers...(展开全部)

Hemingway's Classic Novel About Smuggling, Intrigue, and Love To Have and Have Not is the dramatic story of Harry Morgan, an honest man who is forced into running contraband between Cuba and Key West as a means of keeping his crumbling family financially afloat. His adventures lead him into the world of the wealthy and dissipated yachtsmen who throng the region, and invol...(展开全部)

'If you want to know anything about how music surfaces today, how to find it, or how to create it, you will find what you need right here. ' Joseph Menn, Washington Post writer For the first time in history, almost every song ever recorded is available instantly. Everywhere. You Have Not Yet Heard Your Favourite Song charts what music's dazzling digital revolution really means ...(展开全部)

Curious about how billions of neurons make up your consciousness? How anxiety hijacks your body? Why Freud was such a weirdo? Whether AI will replace your therapist? This witty, enlightening book, written by a brilliant neuroscientist and clinical therapist duo, uncovers the stunningly-intricate universe of the human brain in fun, awe-inspiring detail. Neuroscientist Alie Caldw...(展开全部)

弗里茨·斯特恩(Fritz Stern),1926年出生于德国(现属波兰)布雷斯劳(弗罗茨瓦夫)，是当代致力于德国史研究的最著名的德裔美国历史学家，先后任教于康奈尔大学和哥伦比亚大学。在德、美两国学界，他都享有极高的学术声誉。斯特恩的研究大多集中在欧洲思想史方面，对纳粹主义的特征，其在德国的兴起，以及极权主义在德国得以发展的根源研究颇深。代表作有：《爱因斯坦的德国世界》《梦想与妄想：德国历史剧》《金与铁：俾斯麦、布莱希罗德与德意志帝国的建立》《非自由主义的失败：现代德国政治文化论文集》《文化绝望的政治：对日耳曼意识形态崛起的研究》等。

Contemporary art photography is paradoxical. Anyone can look at it and form an opinion about what they see, yet it represents critical positions that only a small minority of well-informed viewers can usually access. Why Art Photography? provides a lively, accessible introduction to the ideas behind today's striking photographic images. Exploring key issues such as ambiguity, o...(展开全部)