• recent books

    2012-01-10

    49. Zygmunt Bauman, Intimations of Postmodernity, Routledge, 1992

    50. Perter Szondi, On Textual Understanding and Other Essays, University of Minnesota Press, 1986

    51. The Language of Art History, edited by Salim Kemal and Ivan Gaskell, Cambridge University Press, 1991

    52. Critical Terms for Art History, edited by Robert S. Nelson and Richard Shiff, The University of Chicago Press, 1996

    53. J. Hillis Milller, Illustration: Essays in Art and Culture, Harvard University Press, 1992

    54. Haiyan Lee, Revolution of the Heart: A Genealogy of Love in China, 1900-1950, Stanford University Press, 2007.

    55. Zhang Zhen, An Amorous History of the Sliver Screen: Shanghai Cinema, 1896-1937, The University of Chicago Press, 2005.

    56. Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism, edited by Hal Foster, Rosalind, Krauss, Yve-Alain etc., Thames & Hudson, 2011, second edition.

    57. Boris Groys, Art Power, MIT Press, 2008

    58. Boris Groys, The Total Art of Stalinism: Avant-Garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship, and Beyond, Verso, 2011

    59. Jacques Ranciere, The Emancipated Spectator, Verso, 2011

    60. William Egginton, How the World Became a Stage: Presence, Theatricality, and the Question of Modernity, State University of New York Press, 2003

    61. Orientalism’s Interlocutors: Painting, Architecture, Photography, edited by Jill Beaulieu and Mary Roberts, Duke University Press, 2002

    62. Aaron Garrett, Berkeley’s Three Dialogues, Contiuum, 2008

    63. Maryknoll Mission Letters: Extracts from the Letters and Diaries of the Pioneer Missioners of the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America, NY: The Macmillan Company, 1927

    64. Stieglitz On Photography: His Selected Essays and Notes, Aperture Foundation, 2000

    65. James Gleeson, Colonial Painters, 1788-1880, Lansdowne: Australian Art Library, 1971

    66. Brian Morris, Bakunin: the Philosophy of Freedom, Black Rose Books, 1993

    67. Conversations with Lukacs: Has Heinz Holz, Leo Kofler, Wolfgang Abendroth, edited by Theo Pinkus, The MIT Press, 1975

    68. David Lyons, Forms and Limits of Utilitarianism, Oxford University Press, 1967

    69. David Freedberg, The Power of Images: Studies in the History and Theory of Response, The University of Chicago Press, 1989

    70. Adaptation in Contemporary Culture: Textual Infidelities, edited by Rachel Carroll, Continuum International Publishing Group, 2009

    71. Richard Kraut, What is Good and Why: the Ethics of Well-Being, Harvard University Press, 2007

    72. Michael Ryan, Marxism and Deconstruction: a Critical Articulation, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984

    73. Renee L. Bergland, The National Uncanny: Indian Ghosts and American Subjects, University Press of New England, 2000

    74. Valentin Groebner, Defaced: the Visual Culture of Violence in the Late Middle Ages, Zone Books, 2004

    75. The Photography Reader, edited by Liz Wells, Routledge, 2003

    76. Eugene Chen Eoyang, The Transparent Eye: Reflections on Translation, Chinese Literature, and Comparative Poetics, University of Hawaii Press, 1993

  • 书单

    2011-12-29

    今天读完《清末时新小说集》第一部《澹轩闲话》,大类谴责小说,叙事与议论均类似。与《花柳深情传》相比,格局气象上差一截。

  • 花了一周多时间去西海岸走了走,旧金山和西雅图,很漂亮。记个流水账吧。San Francisco:dinner cruise, Asian Art Museum, Fishmen's Wharf, Cable car, Stanford Univ., UC Berkeley, Mission district, Saosalito.  Seattle: Pike Place Market, City Tour, Lakes Cruise, Floating house, Kerry Park, taking ferry, Bainbridge Island, Space Needle.

    在Stanford and UC Berkeley 买了一些书,如下:

    39. Richard Menke, Telegraphic Realism: Victorian Fiction and Other Information Systems, Stanford University Press, 2008

    40. Timothy J. Reiss, Mirages of the Selfe: Patterns of Personhood in Ancient And Early Modern Europe, Stanford University, 2003

    41. Viktor Shklovsky, Literature and Cinematography, Dalkey Archive Press, 2008

    42. Kelly Oliver, The Colonization of Psychic Space: a Psychoanalysis Social Theory of Oppression, University of Minnesota Press, 2004

    43. Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Kafka: Towards a Minor Literature, University of Minnesota Press, 1986

    44. Ronald Beiner, Philosophy in a Time of Lost Spirit: Essays on Contemporary Theory, University of Toronto Press, 1997

    45. Tyrus Miller, Singular Examples: Artistic Politics and the Neo-Avant-Garde, Northwest University Press, 2009

    46. Jean-Luc Nancy, The Truth of Democracy, Fordham University Press, 2010

    47. Ravni Thakur, Rewriting Gender: Reading Contemporary Chinese Women, Zed Books, 1997

    48. Jacques Ranciere, On the Shores of Politics, Verso, 1995

    再帖一张西雅图的照片吧,地标性建筑 Space Needle的夜景,刚好有一对情侣,证实了Romance in Seattle

  • 近日书单 - [书目]

    2011-12-13

    18. Barbara Maria Stafford, Body Criticism: Imaging the Unseen in Enlightenment Art and Medicine, MIT Press, 1991

    19. Peter Pollack, The Picture History of Photography: Form the Earliest Beginning to the Present Day, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1969.

    20. Maurice Rheims, The Strange Life of Objects: 35 Centuries of Art Collecting of Collectors, Translated by David Pryce-Jones, New York: Atheneum Publishers, 1961.

    21. The Feminist Aesthetics, edited by Gisela Ecker, translated by Harriet Anderson, Boston: Beacon Press, 1985.

    22. Arnold Hauser, The Philosophy of Art History, Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1985

    23. John White, The Birth and Rebirth of Pictorial Space, Harper and Row, Publishers, 1972

    24. Fil Hearn, Ideas That Shaped Buildings, The MIT Press, 2003

    25. William M. Ivins, Jr., Prints and Visual Communication, The MIT Press, 1982

    26. Arnold Genthe, The Book of the Dance, Boston: International Publishers, 1920

    27. Michael Podro, The Critical Historians of Art, Yale University Press, 1982

    28. Aesthetics and Politics: Debates Between Ernst Bloch, George Lukacs, Bertolt Brecht, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Afterword by Fredric Jameson, London: NLB, 1977

    29. Lisa Cartwright, Screening the Body: Tracing Medicine’s Visual Culture, University of Minnesota, 1995

    30. Lorraine Daston & Peter Galison, Objectivity, NY: Zone Books, 2010

    31. Jonathan Crary, Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture, Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2001

    32. Larissa N. Heinrich, The Afterlife of Images: Translating the Pathological Body between China and the West, Duke University Press, 2008

    33-35. Fragments for A History of the Human Body, Part I, II, III, Edited by Michel Feher with Ramona Naddaff and Nadia Tazi,,NY: Zone Books, 1989

    36. Bettyanm Holtzmann Kevles, Naked to the Bone: Medical Imaging in the Twentieth Century, Rutgers university Press, 1997

    37. Barbara Maria Stafford, Artful Science: Enlightment Entertainment and the Eclipse of Visual Education, The MIT Press, 1999

    38. Lorraine Daston and Katharine Park, Wonders and the Order of Nature, Zone Books, MIT Press, 2001.