August Sander（1876-1964）是一位纪录片摄影师，他对德国人民的一系列肖像研究跨越了三个时代 - 德意志帝国，魏玛共和国和纳粹德国 - 以及每一个社会阶层，在历史的动荡时期形成了一个迷人的社会镜像。 凭借沉着冷静，桑德镜头下的银行家，拳击手，士兵和马戏表演者，是令人印象深刻的诚实形象，也实现了他的*一的抱负：讲述人性的真相。 August Sander (1876 1964) was a documentary photographer whose greatest project lasted his entire working life. His series of portrait studies of the German people spanned three eras the German Empire, the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany and every social class, combining to form a fascinating social mirror of the country over a tumultuous period in its history. Working with calm determination, Sander cast the same lucid eye on bankers and boxers, soldiers and circus performers, creating strikingly honest images that fulfil his sole ambition: to tell

Francoise Gilot was a young painter in Pasis when she firstmet Picasso - he was sixty-two and she was twenty-one. During thefollowing ten years they were lovers, worked closely together andshe became mother to two of his children, Claude and Paloma. LIFEWITH PICASSO, her account of those extraordinary years, is filledwith intimate and astonishing revelations about the man, his work,his thoughts and his friends - Matisse, Braque, Gertrude Stein andGiacometti among others. Francois Gilot paints a compellingportrait of her turbulent life with the temperamental genius thatwas Picasso. She is a superb witness to Picasso as an artist and tohis views on art...

These free-wheeling, often exhilarating dialogues—which grewout of the acclaimed Carnegie Hall Talks—are an exchange betweentwo of the most prominent figures in contemporary culture: DanielBarenboim, internationally renowned conductor and pianist, andEdward W. Said, eminent literary critic and impassioned commentatoron the Middle East. Barenboim is an Argentinian-Israeli and Said aPalestinian-American; they are also close friends. As they range across music, literature, and society, they openup many fields of inquiry: the importance of a sense of place;music as a defiance of silence; the legacies of artists from Mozartand Beethoven to Dickens and Adorno; Wagner’s anti-Semitism; andthe need for “artistic solutions” to the predicament of the MiddleEast—something they both witnessed when they brought young Arab andIsraeli musicians together. Erudite, intimate, thoughtful andspontaneous, Parallels and Paradoxes is a virtuosiccollaboration.

This lively and imaginative book is being used to helpchildren learn about music and sound while they develop the abilityto listen, concentrate, be creative, improvise; and trust oneanother. Using audiocassettes or CDs of popular songs and simpleinstruments, children and adults get to play listening games,concentration games, musical quizzes, and more. The games are notcompetitive--they encourage and reward children for participating,not for winning.

An illustrated, inside look at the rock group Nirvana offers acandid look the band's members, chronicling their rapid rise in themusic world and revealing the true story of the drug-abuse rumorssurrounding them.

The Simpsons is one of the most literary and intelligentcomedies on television today-fertile ground for questions such as:Does Nietzsche justify Bart's bad behavior? Is hypocrisy alwaysunethical? What is Lisa's conception of the Good? From the editorof the widely-praised Seinfeld and Philosophy, The Simpsons andPhilosophy is an insightful and humorous look at the philosophicaltenets of America's favorite animated family that will delightSimpsons fans and philosophy aficionados alike. Twenty-one philosophers and academics discuss and debate theabsurd, hyper-ironic, strangely familiar world that is Springfield,the town without a state. In exploring the thought of keyphilosophers including Aristotle, Marx, Camus, Sartre, Heidegger,and Kant through episode plots and the characters' antics, thecontributors tackle issues like irony and the meaning of life,American anti-intellectualism, and existential rebellion. Thevolume also includes an episode guide and a chronology ofphilosophers which lists the n

本书的照片都是从国家地理学会超凡的馆藏摄影档案中精心挑选出来的，时间跨越了一个多世纪，反映的题材遍及地球上的每一个角落，也涉及了摄影艺术的每一个层面。这些照片既反映了一些*摄影大师观察生活的独特视角，也代表了我们人类某些共同的情感追求和人性的张扬。 The Collectors Seriesedition of "In Focus" is simply the existing book at a smaller trimsize. This magnificent collection of 280 photographs by many of theworld's greatest photographers tells the tale of portraitphotography over time in page after page of arresting images. Eachphotograph stands proudly on its own, yet taken together, they tella much more complex and subtle story of the ever-evolving art formin constant creative response to new ideas, new eras, and newtechnologies.

When it was originally published in 1970, "How to Draw What YouSee" zoomed to the top of Watson-Guptill's best-seller list--and ithas remained there ever since. "I believe that you must be able todraw things as you see them--realistically," wrote Rudy de Reyna inhis introduction. Today, generations of artists have learned todraw what they see, to truly capture the world around them, usingde Reyna's methods. "How to Draw What You See" shows artists how torecognize the basic shape of an object--cube, cylinder, cone, orsphere--and use that shape to draw the object, no matter how muchdetail it contains.

Henri Matisse created an oeuvre that is unparalleled in its brilliance and originality. His colorfully luminescent paintings are a sweeping affirmation of joie - de - vivre, levity and sensitivity. Featuring well - researched texts and numerous illustrations, this volume offers fascinating insights into the life and artistic development of Henri Matisse Henri Matisse, one of the preeminent pioneers of modern art. When people think of Matisse s art, they tend to remember above all the famous cut - o uts from the last years of his life. He created these at a time when he was already confined to his bed and traded his brush for scissors. In the new volume of the The Great Masters of Art series, Markus M ller knowledgeably and vividly describes how Matis se s artistic oeuvre developed towards these color - intensive and near - abstract works. An illustrated biography, as well as archive finds the author was able to include thanks to his close connection to the artist s estate, present Matisse as an artist whos e