卜寿姗（Susan Bush），美国著名艺术史家，现为哈佛大学费正清研究中心研究员。自上世纪60年代开始就一直致力于中国文人画研究。她的主要著作还有与孟克文（Christian Murck）合著的《中国艺术理论》。

卜寿姗（Susan Bush），美国著名艺术史家，现为哈佛大学费正清研究中心研究员。自上世纪60年代开始就一直致力于中国文人画研究。她的主要著作还有与孟克文（Christian Murck）合著的《中国艺术理论》。

Our view of Chinese painting has been shaped by Tung Ch'i-ch'ang's art historical writings, and his influence can be seen in the work of the painters and calligraphers who followed him. It is thus surprising that Tung--calligrapher, painter, art connoisseur, and government official--is less well known today in China and elsewhere than the Sung and Yuan masters who preceded him....(展开全部)

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)

Artist, architect, poet and philosopher, Leon Battista Alberti revolutionized the history of art with his theories of perspective in On Painting (1435). Inspired by the order and beauty inherent in nature, his groundbreaking work sets out the principles of distance, dimension and proportion; instructs the painter on how to use the rules of composition, representation, light and...(展开全部)

Artist, architect, poet and philosopher, Leon Battista Alberti revolutionized the history of art with his theories of perspective in On Painting (1435). Inspired by the order and beauty inherent in nature, his groundbreaking work sets out the principles of distance, dimension and proportion; instructs the painter on how to use the rules of composition, representation, light and...(展开全部)

In this latest work, respected art historian T. J. Clark sets out to investigate the different ways painting has depicted the dream of God’s kingdom come: heaven descended to earth. He goes back to the late Middle Ages and Renaissance―to Giotto in Padua, Bruegel facing the horrors of religious war, Poussin painting the Sacraments, and Veronese unfolding the human comedy, in par...(展开全部)