Originally conceived as a novel but then transformed into a play by Ayn Rand, Ideal is the story of beautiful but tormented actress Kay Gonda. Accused of murder, she is on the run, and she turns for help to six fans who have written letters to her, each telling her that she represents their ideal—a respectable family man, a far-left activist, a cynical artist, an evangelist, a ...(展开全部)

安·兰德（1905—1982），俄裔美国作家、哲学家。青年时代从苏联流亡美国，以其小说和哲学闻名于世。小说《源泉》（The Fountainhead）1943年出版后立即成为畅销书，并为她赢得了巨大的声誉，至今仍以每年超过10万册的数量再版。1957年《阿特拉斯耸耸肩》 （Atlas Shrugged）出版，成为美国历史上仅次于《圣经》的超级畅销书，被誉为对美国影响最大的10本书之一，全球累计销售近亿册。 安·兰德推崇理性，认为人的最高美德便是理性；她不顾传统舆论的偏见，力倡个人主义，认为不能使个人利益得到最大伸张的社会，就不是理想社会。她的客观主义哲学自20世纪50年代起风靡美国，影响了几代美国人，她本人也成为美国青年崇拜的偶像。 安·兰德一生著述百余种，根据她的生平拍摄的纪录片和故事片曾获奥斯卡奖。1982年安·兰德去世，此后美国创立了许多兰德书...(展开全部)

Do you know I am quite looking forward to meeting your clever husband- Lady Chiltern. Since he has been at the Foreign Office- he has been so much talked of in Vienna. They actually succeed in spelling his name right in the newspapers. That in itself is fame- on the continent.' (Excerpt from Play)

Wilde’s scintillating drawing-room comedy revolves around a blackmail scheme that forces a married couple to reexamine their moral standards. A supporting cast of young lovers, society matrons, and a formidable femme fatale exchange sparkling repartee, keeping the action of the play at a lively pace.

Wilde’s scintillating drawing-room comedy revolves around a blackmail scheme that forces a married couple to reexamine their moral standards. A supporting cast of young lovers, society matrons, and a formidable femme fatale exchange sparkling repartee, keeping the action of the play at a lively pace.

Do you know I am quite looking forward to meeting your clever husband- Lady Chiltern. Since he has been at the Foreign Office- he has been so much talked of in Vienna. They actually succeed in spelling his name right in the newspapers. That in itself is fame- on the continent.' (Excerpt from Play)

Epistemologists often work with idealized pictures of what inquirers are like, how they interact with each other, and the social institutions and environment in which they do the interacting. These idealizations might be appropriate for the more foundational issues in epistemology, such as the theory of knowledge. However they become problematic when epistemologists address app...(展开全部)

威廉·斯莫克（William Smock）美国著名设计师、插画师，现居加利福尼亚州伯克利市。

包豪斯（Bauhaus）是一所德国的艺术和建筑学校，讲授并发展设计教育，1919年创立于德国魏玛。 由于包豪斯对于现代建筑学的深远影响，今日的包豪斯早已不单是指学校，而是其倡导的建筑流派或风格的统称，即注重建筑造型与实用机能合而为一。包豪斯的当代设计，对现代而言，更加具有突破性和代表性。 著名设计师、插画师威廉·斯莫克阐述了包豪斯的设计主义如何对当代艺术，不论在建筑设计、平面设计方面，还是在工业设计、现代美术方面所造成的影响。本书不但保留了当代设计的原始风貌（手绘插图），更像是一本手册指南。不论是建筑设计、室内设计，还是生活用品设计，包含家具、玻璃手工艺品、餐具设计等等，从中随处可见包豪斯的理念。 包豪斯的的确确重新定义了什么是“设计”。 目录 引言 再版引言 第一部分 包豪斯曾代表了什么 一 包豪斯是什么 二 包豪斯的遗产是现代设计吗 三 包豪斯之...(展开全部)

From the art of the Greeks to that of Renoir and Moore, this work surveys the ever-changing fashions in what has constituted the ideal nude as a basis of humanist form.