What is landscape? How does it differ from 'land'? Does landscape always imply something to be pictured, a scene? When and why did we begin to cherish images of nature? What is 'nature'? Is it everything that isn't art, or artefact? This book explores many fascinating issues raised by the great range of ideas and images of the natural world in Western art since the Renaissance....(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。

Contemporary landscape architecture is progressing towards an appropiate and independent language of its own. Drawing on the potentials of art and architecture, the ever changing relationship between man and nature is given new expression. Ecological concerns and aesthetic aspirations interact in a fruitful dialogue. Particularly Land Art and related art movements become source...(展开全部)

"Renaissance and Renascences in Western Art "spans the period from the 10th to the 15th century, including discussion of the Carolingian renaissance and the 12th century proto-renaissance. Erwin Panofsky posits that there were "reanscences" prior to the widely known Renaissance that began in Italy in the 14th century. Whereas earlier renascences can be classified as revivals, t...(展开全部)

The meeting of Eastern and Western art is always more than a synthesis; it offers creative possibilities for interaction between East and West, a process in which the great civilizations preserve their own character while stimulating and enriching each other. In this book, Michael Sullivan leads the reader through four centuries of exciting interaction between the artists of Ch...(展开全部)

One of Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year In Landscape and Memory Schama ranges over continents and centuries to reveal the psychic claims that human beings have made on nature. He tells of the Nazi cult of the primeval German forest; the play of Christian and pagan myth in Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers; and the duel between a monumental sculptor and a feminist ...(展开全部)

Landscape has been a key theme in world archaeology and trans-cultural art history over the last half century, particularly in the study of painting in art history and in all questions of human intervention and the placement of monuments in the natural world within archaeology. However, the representation of landscape has been rather less addressed in the scholarship of the arc...(展开全部)

Mu Xin (b. 1927) is one of the leading artist-intellectuals of the Chinese diaspora. Now living in New York City, he is known for his complex writings and paintings. A formidable figure in the cultural and intellectual history of Chinese modernism, Mu Xin is admired for his unique synthesis of Chinese and Western aesthetic sensibilities and intellectual traditions. This beautif...(展开全部)