Among the most famous of Le Corbusier's works, this book first came out in 1925 as a companion volume to Towards a New Architecture and The City of Tomorrow, two of the most influential writings on architecture and town planning Le Corbusier produced. This is the first English translation of Le Corbusier's densely illustrated polemic against the crafts tradition and superfluous...(展开全部)

In Art Today Brandon Taylor charts the ideas and practices of contemporary art across a wide international spectrum. From Minimalism and Conceptualism to video and film, from painting and sculpture to performance and installation, he shows how advanced art has continued to provoke and perplex a fascinated public. Art Today shows how the new art of the last three decades has bee...(展开全部)

ART & TODAY is the most comprehensive survey of contemporary art of the past three decades. The book's original thematic organization gives a welcome order to the flux of contemporary art. Over four hundred of the most significant contemporary artists from around the world are represented, including emerging as well as established figures. The book's lively, straightforward, an...(展开全部)

ART & TODAY is the most comprehensive survey of contemporary art of the past three decades. The book's original thematic organization gives a welcome order to the flux of contemporary art. Over four hundred of the most significant contemporary artists from around the world are represented, including emerging as well as established figures. The book's lively, straightforward, an...(展开全部)

In Art Today Brandon Taylor charts the ideas and practices of contemporary art across a wide international spectrum. From Minimalism and Conceptualism to video and film, from painting and sculpture to performance and installation, he shows how advanced art has continued to provoke and perplex a fascinated public. Art Today shows how the new art of the last three decades has bee...(展开全部)

This book provides a comprehensive survey of the history and theory of decorative art. The universal human impulse to seek order and rhythm in space and time can be seen in children's play and in poetry, dance, music and architecture, and its prevalence in our every activity calls for an explanation in terms of our biological heritage.

贡布里希教授，恩斯特爵士，功勋团成员（O.M），高级英帝国爵士（C.B.E）。1909年生于维也纳，1936年进入伦敦的瓦尔堡研究院任教职，从1959年起，担任伦敦大学古典传统史教授及院长，直至1976年退休。 主要著作有《艺术的故事》（第16版，1995年），《艺术与错觉》（第6版，2002年），《秩序感》（1979年）。还出版有论文集，“文艺复兴艺术的研究”四卷，第一卷《规范与形式》（1966年）、第二卷《象征的图像》（1972年）、第三卷《阿佩莱斯的遗产》（1976年）、第四卷《老大师新解》（1986年），《木马沉思录》（1963年），《图像与眼睛》（1982年），《敬献集——对我们文化传统的读解》（1984年），《我们时代的话题——20世纪的艺术与学术问题》（1991年），以及《艺术史反思录》（1987年），《偏爱原始性》（2002年）。

贡布里希教授，恩斯特爵士，功勋团成员（O.M），高级英帝国爵士（C.B.E）。1909年生于维也纳，1936年进入伦敦的瓦尔堡研究院任教职，从1959年起，担任伦敦大学古典传统史教授及院长，直至1976年退休。 主要著作有《艺术的故事》（第16版，1995年），《艺术与错觉》（第6版，2002年），《秩序感》（1979年）。还出版有论文集，“文艺复兴艺术的研究”四卷，第一卷《规范与形式》（1966年）、第二卷《象征的图像》（1972年）、第三卷《阿佩莱斯的遗产》（1976年）、第四卷《老大师新解》（1986年），《木马沉思录》（1963年），《图像与眼睛》（1982年），《敬献集——对我们文化传统的读解》（1984年），《我们时代的话题——20世纪的艺术与学术问题》（1991年），以及《艺术史反思录》（1987年），《偏爱原始性》（2002年）。

This book provides a comprehensive survey of the history and theory of decorative art. The universal human impulse to seek order and rhythm in space and time can be seen in children's play and in poetry, dance, music and architecture, and its prevalence in our every activity calls for an explanation in terms of our biological heritage.

From the late 1700s, an increasing number of British, American and continental European sailing ships brought back ship loads of exotic objects which found a ready market in America and Europe. The insatiable interest in the Orient resulted in a large range of painters depicting everyday life in China, as well as portraits of both Chinese and Westerners. Among other objects bro...(展开全部)