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)

Winner of the 2012 Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publication. The famous 1893 Chicago World’s Fair celebrated the dawn of corporate capitalism and a new Machine Age with an exhibit of the world’s largest engine. Yet the noise was so great, visitors ran out of the Machinery Hall to retreat to the peace and quiet of the Japanese pavilion’s Buddhist temp...(展开全部)

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)

The Essence of Jung's Psychology and Tibetan Buddhism illuminates two very different yet remarkably similar traditions. Radmila Moacanin touches on many of their major ideas: the collective unconscious and karma, archetypes and deities, the analyst and the spiritual friend, and mandalas. Within Tibetan Buddhism she focuses on tantra and relates its emphasis on spiritual transf...(展开全部)

"The magnum opus of one of America's most respected military historians, "The Art of War in the Western World" has earned its place as the standard work on how the three major operational components of war - tactics, logistics, and strategy - have evolved and changed over time. This monumental work encompasses 2,500 years of military history, from infantry combat in ancient Gre...(展开全部)

H.W.詹森（H.W.Janson，1913—1982），美国著名艺术史家，艺术史学的传奇人物，曾任纽约大学艺术系教授、系主任。詹森出生于圣彼得堡，后随家人迁往德国汉堡，就读汉堡大学期间师从艺术史大师欧文·潘诺夫斯基。后接受潘诺夫斯基的意见移民美国，于1942年获哈佛大学艺术史博士学位。曾任美国艺术院校协会主席，《艺术通报》编辑，他还是美国文艺复兴学会的创办人之一并曾任主席。詹森主要致力于文艺复兴艺术和19世纪雕塑的研究，主要的学术著作有《多纳太罗的雕塑》和《19世纪雕塑》等，晚年主要关注东西艺术对话。1962年撰写出版了艺术通史著作《詹森艺术史》，大受欢迎，很快成为艺术史教育的标准教材。 A.F.詹森（A.F.Janson），美国北卡罗来纳威明顿大学艺术史教授，博物馆策展人，H.W.詹森的儿子。从他父亲于1982年去世到2004年，由他负责修订《詹...(展开全部)

As a starting point, the author argues that formalist, contextual and post-structural approaches fail to provide an adequate account of all art, particularly art produced outside the Western tradition. He believes therefore that there are profound problems right at the heart of Western thinking about art, and his new framework is an attempt to resolve these problems. At the cor...(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)