Although Gilles Deleuze never wanted a film to be made about him, he agreed to Claire Parnet's proposal to film a series of conversations in which each letter of the alphabet would evoke a word: From A (as in Animal) to Z (as in Zigzag). These DVDs, elegantly transtlated and subtitled in English, make these conversations available for English-speaking audiences? for the first time.In dialogue with Parnet (a journalist and former student of Deleuze), the philosopher exhibited the modest and thrilling transparency that his seminal works (such as Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus) reveal. The sessions were taped when Deleuze was already terminally ill; he and Parnet agreed that the film would not be shown publicly until after his death. The awareness of mortality floats through the dialogues, making them not just intellectually stimulating but also emotionally engaging. Because Parnet knew Deleuze so well, she was able to draw him out--as no one else had--to what might be the 1001st plateau: a place of brilliance, rigor, and charm.In "A as in Animal," for example, Deleuze vents his hatred of pets: "A bark," he declares, "really seems to me the stupidest cry." Instead, he praises the tick: "... in a nature teeming with life, [the tick] extracts three things": light, smell, and touch. This, he claims, in a sense is philosophy. "And that is your life's dream?" Parnet wryly asks. "That's what constitutes a world," he replies. For Deleuze, doing philosophy meant not just creating concepts but living a life in philosophy. Gilles Deleuze from A to Z presents the mind of a great philosopher at work. 　　A as in Animal 　　B as in "Boire" (Drink) 　　C as in Culture 　　D as in Desire 　　E as in "Enfance" Childhood 　　F as in Fidelity 　　G as in Gauche (Left) 　　H as in History of Philosophy 　　I as in Idea 　　J as in Joy 　　K as in Kant 　　L as in Literature 　　M as in Malady 　　N as in Neurology 　　O as in Opera 　　P as in Professor 　　Q as in Question 　　R as in Resistance 　　S as in Style 　　T as in Tennis 　　U as in 'Un' (One) 　　V as in Voyage 　　W as in Wittgenstein 　　X, Y as in Unknowns 　　Z as in Zigzag

本系列片介绍了现代艺术的各个流派产生的历史背景、艺术特点及表现手法，并以大量精美的艺术作品和通俗易懂的语言，深入浅出地给观众上了一堂现代艺术欣赏课

本系列片介绍了现代艺术的各个流派产生的历史背景、艺术特点及表现手法，并以大量精美的艺术作品和通俗易懂的语言，深入浅出地给观众上了一堂现代艺术欣赏课

《现代艺术大师》是英国广播公司BBC推出的一档电视系列节目，它由四部分组成，分别详细介绍了20世纪的四位重要的艺术大师：安迪·沃霍尔（Andy Warhol）、马蒂斯（Henri Matisse）、毕加索（Pablo Picasso）和达利（Salvador Dali）的工作与生活。在片中，镜头跟随主持人Alastair Sooke的脚步，走访了四位艺术家们生前的居所、艺廊及博物馆，甚至是他们最爱的餐厅等地，向观众展示了他们伟大的艺术贡献以及惊人的后世影响力。环顾四周，麦当娜的专辑封面、米菲兔的文具、甚至是你家的沙发和电话，也许就来源于这四位大师的创作……

《现代艺术大师》是英国广播公司BBC推出的一档电视系列节目，它由四部分组成，分别详细介绍了20世纪的四位重要的艺术大师：安迪·沃霍尔（Andy Warhol）、马蒂斯（Henri Matisse）、毕加索（Pablo Picasso）和达利（Salvador Dali）的工作与生活。在片中，镜头跟随主持人Alastair Sooke的脚步，走访了四位艺术家们生前的居所、艺廊及博物馆，甚至是他们最爱的餐厅等地，向观众展示了他们伟大的艺术贡献以及惊人的后世影响力。环顾四周，麦当娜的专辑封面、米菲兔的文具、甚至是你家的沙发和电话，也许就来源于这四位大师的创作……

本片将洛杉矶近年来如何建立城市艺术文化的进程纪录起来，内容则着重在发展迅速的佛若士画廊如何将洛杉矶原本并不活络的艺术活动，转变为可和世界其他艺术重镇可相比拟的盛况，并培育出如Ed Kienholz、Craig Kauffman、Wallace Berman等重要艺术家。

Manet is one of the main candidates for the title of the most important artist there has been. As the reluctant father of Impressionism, and the painter of Dejeuner sur l'herbe, he can probably be accused of inventing modern art. But his story is fascinating on many other levels. 　　As a piece of compelling biography, Manet's is the unlikely tale of the stubborn son of the most highly placed judge in France who decides to become an artist and embarrass his father. The resulting family tensions are the stuff of legend. His mother, by the way, was from a family that still supplies Sweden with its royalty. 　　Then there was Manet's dramatic private life, including exotic romantic affairs and a particularly horrible death when, riddled with syphilis and gangrene, Manet had to have his leg amputated. 　　But none of this would matter a jot were it not for the revolutionary art it provoked and coloured. Always cited as the father of the Impressionists, Manet stubbornly refused to show with them, and was careful to maintain an aesthetic distance from Monet, Renoir and the others. While they worshipped him, he looked down on them, preferring to continue his own remarkable departure from the traditional ways of art. The scandalous paintings with which he made his reputation - the outrageously sexy Olympia, the relentlessly paraphrased Dejeuner sur l'herbe - are the most totemic images in French 19th-century art. And the story of how Manet was rejected from the official salon, and ended up instigating the Salon des Refuses, can be understood as the epoch's key cultural event. 　　Using the life of Manet as his narrative arch, Waldemar Januszczak tells the story of a complex and difficult man who started a revolution that continues to rumble on today.

八集BBC年度巨献纪录片《艺术的力量》，将为您详细讲述卡拉瓦乔、贝尼尼、伦勃朗、雅克、透纳、梵高、毕加索以及罗斯科八位艺术家的生平，重现这八位艺术大师的创作历程。八位艺术大师拥有自成一派的创作风格和鲜明的个性，本片将全面剖析艺术大师们孕育和诞生艺术品时扣人心弦的故事。在主持人西蒙‧沙玛独特而富有个性化的叙事下，这将是一次饱览艺术大师们所创作的最伟大作品的饕餮盛宴。戏剧化的艺术重塑，壮阔华美的摄影画面，八位艺术界巨匠背后鲜为人知的故事被刻画得曲尽其妙，或扼腕叹息或拍手称快，这便是艺术的力量。 　　这部独特而极具震撼力的纪录片《艺术的力量》，荣获国际艾美奖最佳艺术节目、2007年第60届英国电影电视艺术学院奖最佳摄影纪实类等多项国际大奖。

八集BBC年度巨献纪录片《艺术的力量》，将为您详细讲述卡拉瓦乔、贝尼尼、伦勃朗、雅克、透纳、梵高、毕加索以及罗斯科八位艺术家的生平，重现这八位艺术大师的创作历程。八位艺术大师拥有自成一派的创作风格和鲜明的个性，本片将全面剖析艺术大师们孕育和诞生艺术品时扣人心弦的故事。在主持人西蒙‧沙玛独特而富有个性化的叙事下，这将是一次饱览艺术大师们所创作的最伟大作品的饕餮盛宴。戏剧化的艺术重塑，壮阔华美的摄影画面，八位艺术界巨匠背后鲜为人知的故事被刻画得曲尽其妙，或扼腕叹息或拍手称快，这便是艺术的力量。 　　这部独特而极具震撼力的纪录片《艺术的力量》，荣获国际艾美奖最佳艺术节目、2007年第60届英国电影电视艺术学院奖最佳摄影纪实类等多项国际大奖。

The novel follows a woman, Modesta, who is born on 1 January 1900 and her experiences though her life in the twentieth century. The text is written for the most part in the first person (by Modesta), but sometimes also in the third person, especially in the first part of the novel.