Thinking with Objects offers a fresh view of the transformation that took place in mechanics during the 17th century. By giving center stage to objects-levers, inclined planes, beams, pendulums, springs, and falling and projected bodies-Domenico Bertoloni Meli provides a unique and comprehensive portrayal of mechanics as practitioners understood it at the time. Bertoloni Meli r...(展开全部)

Thinking with Objects offers a fresh view of the transformation that took place in mechanics during the 17th century. By giving center stage to objects-levers, inclined planes, beams, pendulums, springs, and falling and projected bodies-Domenico Bertoloni Meli provides a unique and comprehensive portrayal of mechanics as practitioners understood it at the time. Bertoloni Meli r...(展开全部)

For 1,300 years, Chinese calligraphy was based on the elegant art of Wang Xizhi (AD303-361). But the 17th-century emergence of a style modelled on the rough, broken epigraphs of ancient bronzes and stone artifacts brought a revolution in calligraphic taste. By the 18th century, this led to the formation of the stele school of calligraphy, which continues to shape Chinese callig...(展开全部)

The Dutch are 'the envy of some, the fear of others, and the wonder of all their neighbours'. So wrote the English ambassador to the Dutch Republic, Sir William Temple, in 1673. Maarten Prak offers a lively and innovative history of the Dutch Golden Age, charting its political, social, economic and cultural history through chapters that range from the introduction of the tulip ...(展开全部)

"The art historian after Erwin Panofsky and Ernst Gombrich is not only participating in an activity of great intellectual excitement; he is raising and exploring issues which lie very much at the centre of psychology, of the sciences and of history itself. Svetlana Alpers's study of 17th-century Dutch painting is a splendid example of this excitement and of the centrality of ar...(展开全部)

"The art historian after Erwin Panofsky and Ernst Gombrich is not only participating in an activity of great intellectual excitement; he is raising and exploring issues which lie very much at the centre of psychology, of the sciences and of history itself. Svetlana Alpers's study of 17th-century Dutch painting is a splendid example of this excitement and of the centrality of ar...(展开全部)

斯韦特兰娜•阿尔珀斯（Svetlana Alpers，1936— ），美国著名艺术史家，加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校荣休教授，主要研究荷兰黄金年代的艺术作品。著有《描绘的艺术——17世纪的荷兰艺术》《伦勃朗的企业——工作室与艺术市场》《制造鲁本斯》等，其中《描绘的艺术》获得1983年尤金•凯登最佳图书奖[Eugene M. Kayden Award]。 王晓丹，毕业于中国美术学院，现就职于北京外国语大学中华文化国际传播研究院。译有《电影的历史》《记忆断片——巴克森德尔回忆录》《两难之境——艺术与经济的利害关系》《乔治亚•欧姬芙》《杰克逊•波洛克》《化身博士》《艾米莉的诗样年华》等16本译著；在《新美术》《美术研究》《国际汉学》等学术期刊发表文章若干。