What is it to be a work of art? Renowned author and critic Arthur C. Danto addresses this fundamental, complex question. Part philosophical monograph and part memoiristic meditation, "What Art Is challenges" the popular interpretation that art is an indefinable concept, instead bringing to light the properties that constitute universal meaning. Danto argues that despite varied ...(展开全部)

What is it to be a work of art? Renowned author and critic Arthur C. Danto addresses this fundamental, complex question. Part philosophical monograph and part memoiristic meditation, "What Art Is challenges" the popular interpretation that art is an indefinable concept, instead bringing to light the properties that constitute universal meaning. Danto argues that despite varied ...(展开全部)

This is the third volume in "The Art Seminar," James Elkin's series of conversations on art and visual studies. Is Art History Global will stage an international conversation among art historians and critics on the subject of the practice and responsibility of global thinking within the discipline. Participants will range from Keith Moxey of Columbia University to Cao Yiqiang, ...(展开全部)

This is the third volume in "The Art Seminar," James Elkin's series of conversations on art and visual studies. Is Art History Global will stage an international conversation among art historians and critics on the subject of the practice and responsibility of global thinking within the discipline. Participants will range from Keith Moxey of Columbia University to Cao Yiqiang, ...(展开全部)

Who gets to say what counts as contemporary art? Artists, critics, curators, gallerists, auctioneers, collectors, or the public? Revealing how all of these groups have shaped today's multifaceted definition, Terry Smith brilliantly shows that a historical approach offers the best answer to the question: What Is Contemporary Art? Smith argues that the most recognizable kind is c...(展开全部)

Every human society displays some form of behavior that can be called “art,” and in most societies other than our own the arts play an integral part in social life. Those who wish to understand art in its broadest sense, as a universal human endowment, need to go beyond modern Western elitist notions that disregard other cultures and ignore the human species’ four-million-year ...(展开全部)

作者简介 特里·巴雷特（Terry Barrett），美国艺术批评家，俄亥俄州立大学名誉教授，曾任北德克萨斯大学艺术教育系教授，曾荣获美国国家艺术教育协会“杰出教学奖”，著有《创作艺术：形式与意义》《为什么那是艺术:当代艺术的美学和批评》《阐释艺术：反思、惊诧与反应》《批评艺术：理解当代》等。巴雷特曾举办了三十多次个展和群展，发表大量摄影作品和批评文章。目前，巴雷特仍任职于美国国家艺术教育协会、德克萨斯艺术教育协会、艺术理论与教育基金会（FATE）以及院校艺术协会等机构。巴雷特是美国当下颇具才华、知名度极高的当代艺术问题专家，他关于当代艺术及其批评、美学及艺术教育的诸多书籍、文选和文章，自成系统，深入浅出，读者广泛，几经再版，对相当领域产生了重要影响。 译者简介 徐文涛，现代公共视觉艺术设计研究中心研究员，湖北美术学院油画系教授、副主任、硕士生导师。...(展开全部)

A number one bestseller in Britain, Stephen Fry's astonishingly frank, funny, wise memoir is the book that his fans everywhere have been waiting for. Since his PBS television debut in the Blackadder series, the American profile of this multitalented writer, actor and comedian has grown steadily, especially in the wake of his title role in the film Wilde , which earned hi...(展开全部)

At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, and a brilliant symposium on the power of art, My Name Is Red is a transporting tale set amid the splendor and religious intrigue of sixteenth-century Istanbul, from one of the most prominent contemporary Turkish writers. The Sultan has commissioned a cadre of the most acclaimed artists in the land to create a great ...(展开全部)

作者简介： 安•布拉谢尔：美国人，《纽约时报》畅销书作者，《牛仔裤的夏天》系列小说的作者。安∙布拉谢尔是个狂热的书迷，2001年她创作了小说《牛仔裤的夏天》，全球销量5000万册，该书稳居《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜，成为席卷全美国的文化热潮，赢得了读者和评论界的一致好评。