This richly illustrated book provides an anthology and summation of the work of one of the world’s leading historians of Chinese painting and calligraphy. Wen Fong helped create the field of East Asian art history during a distinguished five-decade career at Princeton University and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Few if any writers in English have such a broad knowledge of the...(展开全部)

This richly illustrated book provides an anthology and summation of the work of one of the world’s leading historians of Chinese painting and calligraphy. Wen Fong helped create the field of East Asian art history during a distinguished five-decade career at Princeton University and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Few if any writers in English have such a broad knowledge of the...(展开全部)

詹姆斯•埃尔金斯 (James Elkins), 美国著名艺术史家、理论家和批评家。目前是芝加哥艺术学院E.C. 查德伯恩(E.C. Chadbourne)名誉教授、艺术史系主任。1977年在康奈尔大学取得学士学位。1983年在芝加哥大学取得绘画专业和艺术史专业双硕士学位，并于1989年从同一所大学取得艺术史博士学位。埃尔金斯的多部著作曾被译为中文、韩语、德语、俄语、意大利语、捷克语等多国语言。他的研究兴趣广泛，包括艺术图像、科学图像和自然图像的理论和历史、绘画、摄影理论、艺术史编纂学，以及全球艺术史等。

詹姆斯•埃尔金斯 (James Elkins), 美国著名艺术史家、理论家和批评家。目前是芝加哥艺术学院E.C. 查德伯恩(E.C. Chadbourne)名誉教授、艺术史系主任。1977年在康奈尔大学取得学士学位。1983年在芝加哥大学取得绘画专业和艺术史专业双硕士学位，并于1989年从同一所大学取得艺术史博士学位。埃尔金斯的多部著作曾被译为中文、韩语、德语、俄语、意大利语、捷克语等多国语言。他的研究兴趣广泛，包括艺术图像、科学图像和自然图像的理论和历史、绘画、摄影理论、艺术史编纂学，以及全球艺术史等。

Informed by both structuralism and poststructuralism, these essays by art critic and historian Yve Alain Bois seek to redefine the status of theory in modernist critical discourse. Warning against the uncritical adoption of theoretical fashions and equally against the a priori rejection of all theory, Bois argues that theory is best employed in response to the specific demands ...(展开全部)

Informed by both structuralism and poststructuralism, these essays by art critic and historian Yve Alain Bois seek to redefine the status of theory in modernist critical discourse. Warning against the uncritical adoption of theoretical fashions and equally against the a priori rejection of all theory, Bois argues that theory is best employed in response to the specific demands ...(展开全部)

"Professor Hughes offers an earnest warning: 'Unless there is some emotional tie, some elective affinity linking the student to his subject of study, the results will be pedantic and perfunctory.' In other words, it is only a step from the sublime to the meticulous. Those eager to guard against that sad descent will find "History as Art and as Science" a guide, a tonic, and an ...(展开全部)

This book focuses on Aby Warburg (1866-1929), one of the legendary figures of twentieth century cultural history. His collection, which is now housed in the Warburg Institute of the University of London bears witness to his idiosyncratic approach to a psychology of symbolism, and explores the Nachleben of classical antiquity in its manifold cultural legacy. This collection of e...(展开全部)

This book focuses on Aby Warburg (1866-1929), one of the legendary figures of twentieth century cultural history. His collection, which is now housed in the Warburg Institute of the University of London bears witness to his idiosyncratic approach to a psychology of symbolism, and explores the Nachleben of classical antiquity in its manifold cultural legacy. This collection of e...(展开全部)

Based on John Dewey's lectures on esthetics, delivered as the first William James Lecturer at Harvard in 1932, Art as Experience has grown to be considered internationally as the most distinguished work ever written by an American on the formal structure and characteristic effects of all the arts: architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and literature.