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。

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。

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)

How to Read Medieval Art introduces the art of the European Middle Ages through 50 notable examples from the Metropolitan Museum’s collection, which is one of the most comprehensive in the world. This handsomely illustrated volume includes multi-panel altarpieces, stained glass windows, wooden sculpture, as well as manuscript illuminations, and features iconic masterworks such...(展开全部)

[美]埃里克·谢尔格伦（Eric Kjellgren）是纽约大都会艺术博物馆非洲、大洋洲、美洲艺术部“伊夫林·A. J. 霍尔和约翰·A. 弗里德”助理策展人，在大洋洲艺术方面有着诸多研究，曾著有多本讨论大洋洲艺术和文化的书籍。 ◎ 译者简介 苗纾，自由译者，现居上海。译有《澳大利亚土著艺术》《德拉克洛瓦》等。

亨利••克劳德博士是美国广受欢迎的讲员、知名作家与执业心理医师，主持全美播出的心理咨询节目“新生命”。他毕业自Rosemead Graduate School of Psychology，获临床心理学博士学位，也在加州新港开办心理辅导诊所，是许多畅销书如《过犹不及》《为孩子立界线》《为婚姻立界线》《界线对谈》等的作者。