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)

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)

This book examines the impact of states and their policies on visual art. States shape the role of art and artists in society, influence the development of audiences, support artistic work, and even affect the very nature of artistic production. The book contrasts developments in the United States with art policies in Britain and in the social democratic states of Norway and Sw...(展开全部)

In "The Quest" Mircea Eliade stresses the cultural function that a study of the history of religions can play in a secularized society. He writes for the intelligent general reader in the hope that what he calls a new humanism "will be engendered by a confrontation of modern Western man with unknown or less familiar worlds of meaning." "Each of these essays contains insights w...(展开全部)

米尔恰·伊利亚德，世界著名宗教史家，美国芝加哥大学教授。伊利亚德早年在文学创作上颇有声名，其罗马尼亚语小说《孟加拉之夜》《没有青春的青春》还被改编成了电影。二战结束后至1955年，伊利亚德一直居住在法国巴黎，这期间他的宗教研究达到了一个高峰，以法文的形式出版了一系列宗教著作：《比较宗教的范型》《宇宙和历史》《永恒回归的神话》《瑜伽:不死与自由》《萨满教：古老的昏迷术》等。这系列著作几乎涵盖了20世纪所有宗教的重要研究领域，使他成为一名蜚声国际学术界的宗教史家。1956年伊利亚德到美国任芝加哥大学宗教系主任和教授等职，与同事将芝加哥神学院建设成为国际知名的宗教史研究中心。 晏可佳，上海社会科学院宗教研究所所长、研究员，上海宗教文化研究中心主任。主要译著有《袄教史》《中国天主教简史》《...(展开全部)

Originally published by Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1971.

With the rise of projects to create global histories and art histories, the Mongol Empire is now widely taken as a fundamental watershed. In the later thirteenth century, the Mongol states reconfigured the basic zones of Eurasian trade and contact. For those they conquered, and for those who later overthrew them, new histories and narratives were needed to account for the Mongo...(展开全部)

With the rise of projects to create global histories and art histories, the Mongol Empire is now widely taken as a fundamental watershed. In the later thirteenth century, the Mongol states reconfigured the basic zones of Eurasian trade and contact. For those they conquered, and for those who later overthrew them, new histories and narratives were needed to account for the Mongo...(展开全部)