Choosing ten symbols from the natural world (the sun, the shell, the bird) and ten man-made (the window, the book, the mirror), Françoise Barbe-Gall illuminates our understanding of how these have been used and developed in art from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century, with sixty-eight wonderfully vivid examples. Painting has always made abundant use of forms and objects ...(展开全部)

Which of us, when finding ourselves in the presence of a painting, has not sensed that we lack the keys to decipher it? We feel an emotional response, but the work still seems to evade our understanding. Francoise Barbe-Gall combines a nuanced understanding of the way viewers respond to paintings with a rich knowledge of their context and circumstances of their creation. The re...(展开全部)

苏立文（MichaelSullivan，1916～2013.09.28），字迈珂，1916年出生于加拿大蒙特利尔，幼年随父母移居英国。英国艺术史家，汉学家，牛津大学荣休院士。苏立文是20世纪第一个系统地向西方世界介绍中国现代美术的西方人，是当代西方中国现代美术史研究的学术泰斗，被称为“20世纪美术领域的马可·波罗”。英国当地时间2013年9月28日，迈克尔·苏立文先生去世，享年97岁。

苏立文（MichaelSullivan，1916～2013.09.28），字迈珂，1916年出生于加拿大蒙特利尔，幼年随父母移居英国。英国艺术史家，汉学家，牛津大学荣休院士。苏立文是20世纪第一个系统地向西方世界介绍中国现代美术的西方人，是当代西方中国现代美术史研究的学术泰斗，被称为“20世纪美术领域的马可·波罗”。英国当地时间2013年9月28日，迈克尔·苏立文先生去世，享年97岁。

The Chinese way of appreciating a painting is often expressed by the words du hua," to read a painting." How does one do that? Because art is a visual lanuage, words alone cannot adequately convey its expressive dimension. How to read Chinese Paintings seeks to visually analyze thirty-six paintings and calligraphies from the encyclopedic collection of the Metripolitan Museum of...(展开全部)

纳尔逊•古德曼，著名的分析哲学家、逻辑学家、科学哲学家和美学家，现代唯名论、新实用主义的主要代表之一。著有《表象的结构》(1952)、《事实、虚构和预测》(1954)、《艺术的语言》(1968)、《构造世界的多种方式》(1978)、《心灵及其他问题》(1984)等。

纳尔逊•古德曼，著名的分析哲学家、逻辑学家、科学哲学家和美学家，现代唯名论、新实用主义的主要代表之一。著有《表象的结构》(1952)、《事实、虚构和预测》(1954)、《艺术的语言》(1968)、《构造世界的多种方式》(1978)、《心灵及其他问题》(1984)等。

In this memoir, David Lynch - co-creator of Twin Peaks and writer and director of groundbreaking films like Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive - opens up about a lifetime of extraordinary creativity, the friendships he has made along the way and the struggles he has faced - sometimes successful, sometimes not - to bring his projects to fruition. Part...(展开全部)

In this memoir, David Lynch - co-creator of Twin Peaks and writer and director of groundbreaking films like Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive - opens up about a lifetime of extraordinary creativity, the friendships he has made along the way and the struggles he has faced - sometimes successful, sometimes not - to bring his projects to fruition. Part...(展开全部)