In this collection of interconnected essays, Arthur C. Danto argues that Andy Warhol's Brillo Box of 1964 brought the established trajectory of Westen art to an end and gave rise to a pluralism which has changed the way art is made, perceived, and exhibited. Wonderfully illuminating and highly provocative, his essays explore how conceptions of art-and resulting historical narra...(展开全部)

The work of Alois Riegl (1858-1905) has been highly influential in art history of the modern age. Riegl, the most important member of the so-called Vienna School, developed a refined technique of visual or formal analysis that departed from the iconological method, which emphasized decoding motifs through recourse to texts. Riegl also pioneered understanding of the changing rol...(展开全部)

石约翰（John E. Schrecker），师从汉学大师费正清，布兰代斯（Brandeis）大学历史系教授，同时在美国哈佛大学费正清东亚研究中心从事研究工作。除本书外，尚著有Imperialism and Chinese Nationalism: Germany in Shantung、Reform in nineteenth-century China（与Paul A. Cohen合编）等。

Why are the visual arts so important and what is it that makes their forms significant? Countering recent interpretations of meaning that understand visual artworks on the model of literary texts, Crowther formulates a theory of the visual arts based on what their creation achieves both cognitively and aesthetically. He develops a phenomenology that emphasizes how visual art gi...(展开全部)

斯洛文尼亚卢布尔雅那欧罗巴大学人文学院的哲学教授。他是爱尔兰皇家科学院院士，曾为牛津大学艺术史讲师，并为该校基督圣体学院成员。他在四所欧洲大学获得了正教授职位（其中包括德国不来梅雅格布大学和爱尔兰国立大学高威分校等），共出版了十七部涉及美学、二十世纪艺术与当代艺术领域的专著。克劳瑟教授最新出版的著作有Theory of the Art Object，以及两本有关后现代艺术的著作：Digital Art, Aesthetic Creation: The Birth of a Medium和Geneses of Postmodern Art: Technology as Iconology。

A deep yet accessible analysis of the physics of light and sound, and how our eyes and ears detect them, is not only intellectually enjoyable, but also useful to understand and interpret the world in which we live, all the phenomena that take place around us, and how we perceive them. In short, how we interface with our planet, its inhabitants, and their creations. Understandin...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 A deep yet accessible analysis of the physics of light and sound, and how our eyes and ears detect them, is not only intellectually enjoyable, but also useful to understand and interpret the world in which we live, all the phenomena that take place around us, and how we perceive them. In short, how we interface with our planet, its inhabitants, and their creations. Unde...(展开全部)

How did the rich countries really become rich? In this provocative study, Ha-Joon Chang examines the great pressure on developing countries from the developed world to adopt certain 'good policies' and 'good institutions', seen today as necessary for economic development. Adopting a historical approach, Dr Chang finds that the economic evolution of now-developed countries diffe...(展开全部)

Since its original publication, Erwin Panofsky's Meaning in the Visual Arts has been standard reading for students of art history. It is both an introduction to the study of art and, for those with more specialized interests, a profound discussion of art and life in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Panofsky's historical technique reveals an abundance of detail, detail he skillf...(展开全部)