"Why Your 5 Year Old Could Not Have Done That" is Susie Hodges passionate and persuasive argument against the most common disparaging remark levelled at modern art. In this enjoyable and thought-provoking book, she examines 100 works of modern art that have attracted critical and public hostility from Cy Twomblys scribbled "Olympia" (1957), Jean-Michel Basquiats crude but spont...(展开全部)

"Why Your 5 Year Old Could Not Have Done That" is Susie Hodges passionate and persuasive argument against the most common disparaging remark levelled at modern art. In this enjoyable and thought-provoking book, she examines 100 works of modern art that have attracted critical and public hostility from Cy Twomblys scribbled "Olympia" (1957), Jean-Michel Basquiats crude but spont...(展开全部)

苏西·霍奇为成人和儿童写了70余本书。 她在学校和学院里教授艺术史和实用艺术课程， 向成人和儿童做艺术方面的演讲， 给各种机构撰写艺术类教材。 她从事绘画与绘图创作已超过15年， 运营着一家集写作与绘画为一体、适合各年龄段人士学习的工作室。 在本书中， 苏西·霍奇以引发公众批评甚至敌意的100件艺术作品为例， 对贬低现代艺术最常见的言论进行了卓有说服力、 充满热情的讨论， 说明了现代艺术不是、 也从不曾是孩童的把戏。

苏西·霍奇为成人和儿童写了70余本书。 她在学校和学院里教授艺术史和实用艺术课程， 向成人和儿童做艺术方面的演讲， 给各种机构撰写艺术类教材。 她从事绘画与绘图创作已超过15年， 运营着一家集写作与绘画为一体、适合各年龄段人士学习的工作室。 在本书中， 苏西·霍奇以引发公众批评甚至敌意的100件艺术作品为例， 对贬低现代艺术最常见的言论进行了卓有说服力、 充满热情的讨论， 说明了现代艺术不是、 也从不曾是孩童的把戏。

作者简介 特里·巴雷特（Terry Barrett），美国艺术批评家，俄亥俄州立大学名誉教授，曾任北德克萨斯大学艺术教育系教授，曾荣获美国国家艺术教育协会“杰出教学奖”，著有《创作艺术：形式与意义》《为什么那是艺术:当代艺术的美学和批评》《阐释艺术：反思、惊诧与反应》《批评艺术：理解当代》等。巴雷特曾举办了三十多次个展和群展，发表大量摄影作品和批评文章。目前，巴雷特仍任职于美国国家艺术教育协会、德克萨斯艺术教育协会、艺术理论与教育基金会（FATE）以及院校艺术协会等机构。巴雷特是美国当下颇具才华、知名度极高的当代艺术问题专家，他关于当代艺术及其批评、美学及艺术教育的诸多书籍、文选和文章，自成系统，深入浅出，读者广泛，几经再版，对相当领域产生了重要影响。 译者简介 徐文涛，现代公共视觉艺术设计研究中心研究员，湖北美术学院油画系教授、副主任、硕士生导师。...(展开全部)

'To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world.' Oscar Wilde More than ever before, we live in a culture that excoriates inactivity and demonizes idleness. Work, connectivity and a constant flow of information are the cultural norms, and a permanent busyness pervades even our quietest moments. Little wonder so many of us are burning out. In a culture that tacitl...(展开全部)

We live in a culture that demonizes idleness. Work, connectivity and a constant flow of information are the cultural norms. We are exhausted - but we fear pausing, in case we look lazy. In Not Working, psychoanalyst Josh Cohen explores the paradoxical pleasures of inactivity, arguing that a good life requires freedom from the demand to be perpetually active. Drawing on his pers...(展开全部)

'To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world.' Oscar Wilde More than ever before, we live in a culture that excoriates inactivity and demonizes idleness. Work, connectivity and a constant flow of information are the cultural norms, and a permanent busyness pervades even our quietest moments. Little wonder so many of us are burning out. In a culture that tacitl...(展开全部)

We live in a culture that demonizes idleness. Work, connectivity and a constant flow of information are the cultural norms. We are exhausted - but we fear pausing, in case we look lazy. In Not Working, psychoanalyst Josh Cohen explores the paradoxical pleasures of inactivity, arguing that a good life requires freedom from the demand to be perpetually active. Drawing on his pers...(展开全部)

约翰·蓬特兰·马哈菲，爱尔兰古典主义学者、博物学学者、莎草纸学者、都柏林圣三一学院院长、爱尔兰皇家科学院院长。研究领域众多，代表作有《古代文明十二讲》《希腊文学史》《托勒密王朝》