Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction

Julian Stallabrass
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Contemporary art has never been so popular, but what is its role today and who is controlling its future? Contemporary art is supposed to be a realm of freedom where artists shock, break taboos, flout generally received ideas, and switch between confronting viewers with works of great emotional profundity and jaw-dropping triviality. But away from shock tactics in the gallery, there are many unanswered questions. Who is really running the art world? What effect has America's growing political and cultural dominance had on art?

Here Julian Stallabrass takes us inside the international art world to answer these and other controversial questions, and to argue that behind contemporary art's variety and apparent unpredictability lies a grim uniformity. Its mysteries are all too easily explained, its depths much shallower than they seem. Contemporary art seeks to bamboozle its viewers while being the willing slave of business and government. This book is your antidote and will change the way you see contemporary art.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

Collections
Contemporary Art (Larry Qualls Archive)
New Museum of Contemporary Art Exhibitions
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art: Painting and Sculpture
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安迪．沃霍爾: 永不結束的15分鐘 (Andy Warhol )

尼科爾林 (Geoff Nicholson) 著
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本書主要介紹了安迪．沃霍爾生活的時代背景、主要思想，相關重大事件及其對人類文明進程的影響；介紹了安迪．沃霍爾的代表作，以及該作品的創作緣由及其影響；以審慎生動的方式來研習該作品的言論；解釋關鍵術語及概念；援引簡潔易懂的實例；提供深入探討的問題。

讀者在閱讀過程中可以了解他的奮鬥閱歷、成功經驗、切身體會以及對事業、對人生的執著追求，因而可以得到更多的啟發，吸取更多的科學精神和人文精神的養料。對青年讀者來說，會起到勵志的作用，使得今後在自己的成長過程中，會時時感到這些潛移默化的影響；而對中老年讀者來說，也可以對比自己的事業和人生經歷，獲得新的感悟。

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Creator: Andy Warhol
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Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley
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 The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's legendary vision of a world of tomorrow utterly transformed. In Huxley's darkly satiric yet chillingly prescient imagining of a "utopian" future, humans are genetically designed and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively serve a ruling order. A powerful work of speculative fiction that has enthralled and terrified readers for generations, it remains remarkably relevant to this day as both a warning to be heeded and as a thought-provoking yet satisfying entertainment.

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電影閱讀美學

簡政珍 著
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著名詩人文學理論家簡政珍教授以其獨到的眼光，引導讀者「看」∕「閱讀」電影，如同作者對文學詩作裡語言的敏銳，電影中的色彩光影、影像構圖、運鏡取景、敘述與旁白等，都是「精讀細品」的對象。作者以細緻的觀察力帶領讀者進入銀幕世界，暢覽電影奇妙豐富的想像空間。

第三版是增訂二版後的大幅度改版，除內容更動，順序調整外，又加上《證人》、《浪蕩子》、《大開眼界》、《意外的春天》、《天堂歲月》、《紅色警戒線》、《新天堂樂園》、《靈異第六感》、《親情無價》、《神秘河流》、《冰血暴》、《冰風暴》、《胭脂扣》、《柳樹之歌》、《天堂的小孩》以及大陸影片《活著》、《洗澡》、《草房子》、《那人那山那狗》等片的討論。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

Topic: Film

Topic: Theatre
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Travel Writing

Carl Thompson
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An increasingly popular genre – addressing issues of empire, colonialism, post-colonialism, globalization, gender and politics – travel writing offers the reader a movement between the familiar and the unknown.

In this volume, Carl Thompson:
• introduces the genre, outlining competing definitions and key debates
• provides a broad historical survey from the medieval period to the present day
• explores the autobiographical dimensions of the form
• looks at both men and women’s travel writing, surveying a range of canonical and more marginal works, drawn from both the colonial and postcolonial era
• utilises both British and American travelogues to consider the genre's role in shaping the history of both nations.

Concise and practical, Travel Writing is the ideal introduction for those new to the subject, as well as a crucial overview of current debates in the field.

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的裡雅斯特：無名之地的意義 (Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere)

簡．莫里斯 (Jan Morris)
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它（《的裡雅斯特》）寫進不少歷史及風土人情，旁及若干文士和作曲家的趣事逸聞，頗有讀趣，意識流小說大師詹姆斯•喬伊斯（James Joyce）曾居於此，其名著亦是少數以“普通英文”寫成的《一位青年藝術家的肖像》，便於此地寫成。
——林行止

說到英國人遊記，誰又寫得過莫里斯（Jan Morris），莫里斯筆下的歐洲，是百年英國旅行散文的極品……讀莫里斯的遊記，會驚訝於他心細如塵的觀察，他的筆墨如最細膩的幾根琴弦，會在讀者引起繞胸三月的杜比回響。
——香港文人 陶傑

讀完這本書，我希望能讀一遍所有莫里斯寫過的書。寫作深度固然和天賦有關，也同樣與作者的生存困境有關。這兩個條件，不管幸與不幸，她兼而有之。
——林達

的裡雅斯特，意大利一座海港小城。在歷史長河中，它曾經悄無聲息，一度繁榮而後又趨於平靜。

《的裡雅斯特》一書是作家簡•莫里斯的巔峰之作。莫里斯重新發現並書寫了的裡雅斯特，她的文字不疾不徐，倏然而逝，令這座意大利海港小城的滄桑底蘊躍然紙上。

(摘錄自dangdang.com)

Collection: Italian and other European Art (Scala Archives)
 (Over 13,000 Scala images are already available in the collection, representing all aspects Italian art, with a special focus on painting, sculpture, and architecture.)
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