纪念碑性(monumentality)是“发思古之幽情”艺术的一个必然特点:弗里德里希(Caspar David Friedrich)笔下残破不堪的修道院或哥特式教堂、沃特豪斯(John William Waterhouse)塑造的忧伤的夏洛特、米莱斯(John Everett Millais)描绘的水中的奥菲利亚……无论是人物、建筑还是风景都传达了一种怅然的崇高。 >> 更多
(English) Born in Barbados in 1959, Ashley Bickerton had a peripatetic childhood across four continents, from Guyana to Ghana, on to the Balearic Islands and England, then finally Hawaii. His upbringing followed the career of his Anglo-American father, the eminent linguist Derek Bickerton, who researched creole languages and theorised on the formation of human language. >> 更多