This book presents a survey of Chinese painting from the eighth to the 14th century, a period during which the nature of China's pictorial art changed dramatically. Illustrated by works in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the author begins by describing the advent toward the end of the Bronze Age of figural representation in Chinese art, and next trac...(展开全部)

Words and Images contains twenty-three essays based on papers presented at an international symposium held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in May 1985 to celebrate the gifts and promised gifts of Chinese calligraphy and painting from John M. Crawford, Jr. In these essays senior scholars from Asia and America express a wide range of perspectives on an issue that is central to ...(展开全部)

The subject of The Wheels of Commerce is the development of mechanisms of exchange--shops, markets, trade networks, and banking--in the pre-industrial stages of capitalism.

During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Chinese furniture reached a pinnacle of exceptional design and meticulous workmanship. "Beyond the Screen" leads the reader on a journey that encompasses not only the evolution of these exquisite furnishings, but also includes the many literary, architectural and visual contexts in which they were created. Alongside 64 superb colo...(展开全部)

巫鸿（Wu Hung）早年任职于故宫博物院书画组、金石组，获中央美术学院美术史系硕士。1987年获哈佛大学美术史与人类学双重博士学位，后在该校美术史系任教，1994年获终身教授职位。同年受聘主持芝加哥大学亚洲艺术的教学、研究项目，执“斯德本特殊贡献教授”讲席，2002年建立东亚艺术研究中心并任主任。 其著作《武梁祠：中国古代画像艺术的思想性》获1989年全美亚洲学年会最佳著作奖（李文森奖）；《中国古代美术和建筑中的纪念碑性》获评1996年杰出学术出版物，被列为20世纪90年代最有意义的艺术学著作之一；《重屏：中国绘画中的媒介与表现》获全美最佳美术史著作提名。参与编写《中国绘画三千年》（1997）、《剑桥中国先秦史》（1999）等。多次回国客座讲学，发起“汉唐之间”中国古代美术史、考古学研究系列国际讨论会，并主编三册论文集。 近年致力于中国现当代艺术的...(展开全部)

巫鸿（Wu Hung）早年任职于故宫博物院书画组、金石组，获中央美术学院美术史系硕士。1987年获哈佛大学美术史与人类学双重博士学位，后在该校美术史系任教，1994年获终身教授职位。同年受聘主持芝加哥大学亚洲艺术的教学、研究项目，执“斯德本特殊贡献教授”讲席，2002年建立东亚艺术研究中心并任主任。 其著作《武梁祠：中国古代画像艺术的思想性》获1989年全美亚洲学年会最佳著作奖（李文森奖）；《中国古代美术和建筑中的纪念碑性》获评1996年杰出学术出版物，被列为20世纪90年代最有意义的艺术学著作之一；《重屏：中国绘画中的媒介与表现》获全美最佳美术史著作提名。参与编写《中国绘画三千年》（1997）、《剑桥中国先秦史》（1999）等。多次回国客座讲学，发起“汉唐之间”中国古代美术史、考古学研究系列国际讨论会，并主编三册论文集。 近年致力于中国现当代艺术的...(展开全部)

Product Description In the first exploration of Chinese paintings as both material products and pictorial representations, The Double Screen shows how the collaboration and tension between material form and image gives life to a painting. A Chinese painting is often reduced to the image it bears; its material form is dismissed; its intimate connection with social activities and...(展开全部)

Product Description In the first exploration of Chinese paintings as both material products and pictorial representations, The Double Screen shows how the collaboration and tension between material form and image gives life to a painting. A Chinese painting is often reduced to the image it bears; its material form is dismissed; its intimate connection with social activities and...(展开全部)

巴巴拉·W·塔奇曼（Barbara W. Tuchman，1912—1989），美国著名历史学家、作家，1963年和1972年凭《八月炮火》与《史迪威与美国在中国的经验，1911—1945》两度获得普利策奖。她偏爱以文学的方式书写历史，她的文字充满戏剧性和画面感，在充分发掘史料的前提下伴随着意味深长的议论和反思。其作品深受大众读者和费正清等历史学家的推崇。 奥利弗·B·波拉克曾这样写道：“作为历史学家，塔奇曼不是在为其他历史学家们而写作；在她的著作里，字里行间，千百万大众读者通过她的文字感受到了历史的精彩之处。”