儿童图画书是我们首次阅读的书，但是一本成功的图画书对于孩子意味着什么呢？在本书中，两位作者向我们介绍了儿童图画书的世界，提供了这个产业的相关背景，并探讨了如何创作一本成功图画书的关键。

Children's picturebooks are the very first book we encounter and play a major role in introducing us to both art and language. But what does it take to create a successful picturebook for children? Children's Picturebooks, Second Edition is the revised edition of a bestselling title that carries invaluable insight into a highly productive, dynamic sector of the publishing world...(展开全部)

"This [is a] staggeringly impressive, wonderfully well-designed book...it's a near-perfect overview of art history." --Sunday Times (Culture Magazine), 30th November 2008 The ultimate visual guide to paintings and sculpture from around the world From the earliest cave paintings to Damien Hirst bring a gallery of the world’s finest art into your home and learn everything you nee...(展开全部)

In this beautiful meditation on the history of art and the problem of style, Henri Focillon (1881-1943) describes how art forms change over time. Although he argues that the development of art is reducible to external political, social, or economic determinants, one of his great achievements was to lodge a concept of autonomous and organic artistic creation within the shifting ...(展开全部)

This classic study probes the geometric interrelationships between art and life in discussions that range from Plato, Pythagoras, and Archimedes to modern architecture and art. Other topics include the Golden Section, geometrical shapes on the plane, geometrical shapes in space, crystal lattices, and many other fascinating subjects. Includes 80 plates and 64 figures.

In this beautiful meditation on the history of art and the problem of style, Henri Focillon (1881-1943) describes how art forms change over time. Although he argues that the development of art is reducible to external political, social, or economic determinants, one of his great achievements was to lodge a concept of autonomous and organic artistic creation within the shifting ...(展开全部)

安德鲁·格雷厄姆-狄克逊（Andrew Graham Dixon）是英语国家艺术电视节目的首席评论家和推荐人。他为BBC广播公司提供了6套里程碑式的系列艺术片，包括备受瞩目的《英国艺术史》《文艺复兴时代》《永恒的艺术》以及有关艺术和艺术家的许多个性化文献。20多年来他主持出版多个艺术专栏周刊，起初是《独立报 》，现在是《星期日电讯报》。他还撰写了许多书籍，题材涉及中世纪绘画、雕塑以及当代艺术。

弗吉尼娅•波斯特莱尔（Virginia Postrel），学者，文化评论家，彭博资讯专栏作家，《华尔街日报》、《大西洋月刊》、《纽约时报》、《福布斯》等多家知名媒体的特约撰稿人，文风以幽默、深刻见长。波斯特莱尔曾作为Ted演讲嘉宾，也为纽约视觉艺术学院进行有关魅力的短期培训。现居洛杉矶。

本书两位作者简•罗伯森（Jean Robertson）与克雷格•迈克丹尼尔（Craig McDaniel），都是美国印第安那大学－普杜大学印第安那波利斯分校艺术与设计学院教授。二人合著有《绘画语言：材料、技术、形式、内容》等著作。 匡骁，哈尔滨人，英美文学专业硕士、文艺学博士，现为同济大学外国语学院副教授。博士论文研究方向为美国当代艺术理论家和美学家乔治·迪基。

Review "An excellent book that approaches contemporary art in ways that are relevant to how art is made today, ways that move beyond the old categories of medium and genre to examine a group of issues that motivate and structure much of the content of today's art."--Timothy Van Laar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and coauthor of Art with a Difference: Looking at Di...(展开全部)