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Contents: Watch and Ward Roderick Hudson The American The Europeans Confidence Washington Square The Portrait of a Lady The Bostonians The Princess Casamassima The Reverberator The Tragic Muse The O……続きを見る

一項傾國之力的文明試驗，一股不願被世界拋下的恐懼 漢字書寫 ◆ 科技革命 ◆ 權力運作 中文輸入法的起源，人機互動的先聲 現代資訊科技史上最重要、卻被誤解最深的發明 挑戰字母文字霸權　化不可能為可能 跨越五千……続きを見る

This Companion offers the first systematic analysis of the representation of the body in literature. It historicizes embodiment by charting our evolving understanding of the body from the Middle Age……続きを見る

From Booker Prize-winning author John Berger, a collection of essays that explores the relationship of art and artists and includes examinations of the work of Brancusi, Degas, Michelangelo, and Fri……続きを見る

Throughout his career, the influential new media theorist Vilém Flusser kept the idea of gesture in mind: that people express their being in the world through a sweeping range of movements. He recon……続きを見る

A collection that tracks the astonishing impact of one vernacular aesthetic categoryーthe cuteーon postwar and contemporary art. The Cute tracks the astonishing impact of a single aesthetic category……続きを見る

What do our clothes say about who we are or who we think we are? How does the way we dress communicate messages about our identity? Is the desire to be "in fashion" universal, or is it unique to Wes……続きを見る

The Routledge Companion to Art and Politics offers a thorough examination of the complex relationship between art and politics, and the many forms and approaches the engagement between them can take……続きを見る

Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifferen……続きを見る

The role of design, both expert and nonexpert, in the ongoing wave of social innovation toward sustainability. In a changing world everyone designs: each individual person and each collective subjec……続きを見る

A fly-on-the-wall account of the smart and strange subcultures that make, trade, curate, collect, and hype contemporary art. The art market has been booming. Museum attendance is surging. More peopl……続きを見る

Just as the clothes we wear can communicate our personality and how we want to be perceived, so fashion can reflect the politics and preoccupations of the society that produced it. A Cultural Histor……続きを見る

Molly Bang's brilliant, insightful, and accessible treatise is now revised and expanded for its 25th anniversary. Bang's powerful ideasーabout how the visual composition of images works to engage th……続きを見る

The Artful Species explores the idea that our aesthetic responses and art behaviors are connected to our evolved human nature. Our humanoid forerunners displayed aesthetic sensibilities hundreds of ……続きを見る

Christian Gauss Award Shortlist Winner of the ASAP Book Prize A Literary Hub Book of the Year “Makes the case that the gimmick…is of tremendous critical value…Lies somewhere between critical theory ……続きを見る

How "drowned town" literature, road movies, energy landscape photography, and "death train" narratives represent the brutality of industrial infrastructures. In this book, Michael Truscello looks at……続きを見る

Human beings engage works of the arts in many different ways: they sing songs while working, they kiss icons, they create and dedicate memorials. Yet almost all philosophers of art of the modern per……続きを見る

在沒有心理學的年代，畫家就是最早的心理學家！ ──名畫為什麼有魅力？── 心理學博士Step by Step帶你發現「操控感官」的知覺線索 　　＊ 市面上第1本「視覺心理鑑賞」專書！美術館實戰手冊 　　＊ 打造美學素養的2……続きを見る

In the late 1990s, Rosalind Krauss, one of the principal theorists of post-modernism in the arts, began using the term “post-medium” in her work. It was a nod to the American “ordinary language” phi……続きを見る

A provocative and challenging new conceptual framework for the study of images This book builds on the groundbreaking theoretical framework established in Whitney Davis’s acclaimed previous book, A ……続きを見る

In recent decades, the dialogue between art and anthropology has been both intense and controversial. Art, Anthropology and the Gift provides a much-needed and comprehensive overview of this dialogu……続きを見る

• A rare critical look at an infamous manga genre. • Latest book from Ankoku Seiun Award winning author • Book features interviews with a number of active hentai comic artists • Author has been a re……続きを見る

15 beautiful embroidery projects from the era of Jane Austen. Jane Austen was as skilful with a needle as she was with a pen. This unique book from Jennie Batchelor and Alison Larkin showcases recen……続きを見る

Creating meaningful images goes beyond technique but does not exclude it as a relevant component of this composition. There are spaces for dialogues about image production to take place. I do not in……続きを見る

Collaborative and collective art practices have proliferated around the world over the past fifteen years. In The One and the Many, Grant H. Kester provides an overview of the broader continuum of c……続きを見る

This provocative book is a tractateーa treatiseーon beauty in Japanese art, written in the manner of a zuihitsu, a free-ranging assortment of ideas that “follow the brush” wherever it leads. Donald ……続きを見る

How do we see the world around us? The Penguin on Design series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever. Bruno Munari was ……続きを見る

This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of al……続きを見る

Is Landscape . . . ? surveys multiple and myriad definitions of landscape. Rather than seeking a singular or essential understanding of the term, the collection postulates that landscape might be be……続きを見る

En 1928, André Breton, dans Le Surréalisme et la peinture, dénonçait les " pauvres témoignages de quelques scribes " qui s'acharnaient, selon lui, à réduire l'aventure cubiste aux " proportions d'un……続きを見る