进入艺术学府要学的第一件事是什么呢？“艺术可以是任何东西”。第二件事呢？“学画画”。101个要学习的东西，是艺术家在艺术学校课程发展中的经验之谈，极具启发性，她会指引你去以艺术为媒介思考，是艺术院校师生的必读本。

当“设计”和“创意”成为时尚的时候，终于有人出来提醒“被设计”的“原罪”。 从辨析Design 中译的含义到回应霍金《大设计》的思想超越。 一位艺术史家逆流行价值的思考之作。 本文集汇总了他自2006年以来最重要的有关于设计的文章，其中既有作为教育工作者对设计教育的思考和展望，也有作为充满情怀的学者对设计本来面目的追索与探讨；既有在全球化大格局下，设计作为创意文化产业龙头的责任意识，又有回归生活本真，怀抱理想主义的设计原乡情怀。

《艺术品的本质(彩图本艺术哲学)》中提出了关于如何研究“艺术品的本质及其产生”的观点，他认为：我们研究一件艺术品的本质不应该单独地孤立来看，应该找出它的从属性，解释艺术品的总体特征，然后才能真正了解艺术家、艺术品的本质；而研究艺术品的产生则应该分析其所处的时代精神与风俗概况，然后根据人性的一般规则，研究某所情况对群众艺术家的影响，也就是对艺术品的影响，由些而得出的结论是客观而真实的。

《大英博物馆馆藏珍品》汇集了这个世界上最伟大的博物馆的珍贵藏品，用将近300幅图片和极为详尽的注解，展现了从罗塞塔石头、古希腊大理石雕刻、帕台农神庙的雕刻、古埃及木乃伊、米开朗基罗的名画、亚述浮雕，到玛丽的花镶嵌工艺等世界文明珍宝的风采，并且记述了许多重点文物的历史背景和相关轶事。本书是大英博物馆无价的档案，对于不能亲往参观的读者，本书更是不可多得的收藏珍品。

纪实摄影表现摄影家对环境的关怀，对生命的尊重，对人性的追求……纪实摄影家以冰冷的机器记录边缘景象或被人有意无意间“忽视”的事实，却往往能借着影像的力量，使摄影成为参与改造社会的工具。从纪实摄影发生的社会背景与历史没载看，它的批判性和干革命性不言而喻。副产品纪实摄影史就是一部摄影家对人世间的不公、黑暗、动乱、肃削……进行记录、表述与传播的历史。通地影像，他们达到宣传鼓动，进而促进社会变革，使人间更美好的目的。 这本书以平易的文风介绍了当代著名纪实摄影家的贡献，他们的风雨历程、创作理念、参与社会活动的方式、对人性的追求等许多方面，为读者提供了关于纪实摄影的立体的、全景式的信息。

论及艺术与科学的同宗同源，许多人会对此感到惊讶和困惑。认识的局限性以及自身所受的教育都不同程度地影响着我们，使我们一直以为艺术与科学两者之间横亘着一条无法逾越的鸿沟。身为天文学家，作者在审视世界时，偏偏选择了艺术与科学这两个极具魅力又容易引起误解的视角。他的生花妙笔在论及人类生活的各个方面，如天文、地理、生物、物理、语言、宗教、美术、音乐时，驾轻就熟，如行云流水一般优美通畅。不知不觉中，我们自由地

《美学四讲》是李泽厚先生全面、系统地论述自己美学思想的专著，配以精美插图，引领读者走入金碧辉煌的美学宫殿，堪称面向普通读者的美学读物经典之作。作者由古而今，由西方而东方，无论是中国传统的古井听松，还是西方的美神降临，均逐一解答，分析当今美学存在的问题，既有对名家各派观点的评析，又成自己的一家之言。

《另类准则》是美国当代最杰出的艺术史家和艺术批评家之一列奥·施坦伯格的艺术批评文集。藉着这部评论20世纪艺术的书，施坦伯格将艺术批评提升到了一个新的高度。他一生致力于研究罗丹、莫奈、毕加索、波洛克、贾斯伯·约翰斯及其他艺术家的作品，特别擅长将严谨的形式分析融入图像志的主题分析之中，目光敏锐，观察精确，为现代艺术的图像学研究，提供了卓越的范本。

As beautiful and rigorous as an Escher work itself, this book is the classic study of a great maverick who so memorably linked the world of image making with geometry and paradox. Escher's works, from the great master prints to numerous drawings, are brilliantly arranged to form a cinematic journey of discovery that reveals the magical world of the artists mind, an uncharted realm lush with exotic conceptions and inventions.

《艺术与物性(论文与评论集)》是美国当代杰出的艺术史家和艺术批评家迈克尔·弗雷德的艺术评论文集。他的艺术批评构成了晚期现代主义的核心文本，包括为“三位美国画家展”所写的雄心勃勃的导论，初步反思极简主义的《形状之为形式》，代表其批评顶峰的《莫里斯·路易斯》，以及划时代的《艺木与物性》。这些论文不仅确立了了里解盛期和晚期现代主义的基本术语，而且也开启了批判美国极简主义艺术的大门，直到今天它们仍在激发人们关于视觉艺术中的现代主义与后现代主义的论战。 《艺术与物性(论文与评论集)》此中译本根据芝加哥大学出版社1998年版译出。在长达74页的导论与新近撰写的“中文版序”中，弗雷德详尽地回顾了自己的艺术批评生涯，澄清了广泛的议题，尤其是阐述了他与格林伯格的现代主义理论的主要分歧，明确了他的艺术批评与艺术史研究之间的关系，并强调了他在近几年当代艺术研究中所捍卫的价值。

如果世界上所有的事物被认为是美学经验的来源，那么艺术不再具有优势地位。相反，来源于主体和世界之间的艺术和曾经给艺术合法地位的任何美学话语必须也必定服务于削弱它。继鲍里斯•格洛伊斯近作《艺术力》和《共产主义后记》之后，本书试图避免使用具有牢固地位的美学和艺术的社会理解——它们总是承担观者和消费者的位置。让我们重新考虑艺术生产者的位置，不要问艺术像什么，或者从哪里来，以及它为什么存在第一位置。收录于《走向公众》之中的文章引发诸多思考，尤其是在当下存在的如何使个人和公众对艺术品的认知协调共处的两难问题上更是如此。为了理解公众表达形式对个人利益形式的影响，放宽视野，思考两者各自存在的局限极为必要。

什么是当代艺术？首先，为什么这个问题直到今天才被问及？进一步讲，为什么我们要把这一问题放在20世纪种类繁多的艺术运动批评理论总结的背景下加以讨论？当代艺术的描述界限如此模棱两可，以至于没有哪个艺术家因为自己的作品是“当代艺术的”而感到自豪，也没有哪个艺术家因为创作任何形式的作品而深感耻辱。事实上，对艺术运动的讨论已经深深嵌入当代艺术讨论的范畴之中，难道仅仅是因为是对单一的霸权的对“主义”的追求吗？本书收录世界知名艺评家12篇文章，包括两位中国作者。

《后现代之后:后前卫视觉艺术(修订版)》帮读者解答为什么当代艺术中出现了许多令人恐怖的作品？为什么有的作品中甚至有鲜血、烂肉？这还算是艺术吗？难道令人震惊是艺术的目的吗？艺术界究竟发生了什么？在前卫艺术再次独占鳌头，绘画“死亡”了很久之后，它怎么又回来了？现代博物馆如何展示这些新的作品？理论如何解读这些作品？新的美学观念形成了吗？等相关后现代相关问题。

本书以穿越后现代为主题，着重阐释和分析当代西方艺术理论和实践中的最新趋势，特别是对自上世纪60年代以来的当代艺术理论和实践进行了深入分析，论证了当代西方艺术如何走出后现代主义理论的困境和面临的新问题，继《后现代之后》之后再次提出：后现代主义的时代已经过去，一个更加多元化的时代、一个不再受主义和理论束缚的时代已经来临。

《物理与艺术》是一本人文与科学素质教育的教材。全书共分12章,其主要内容是以西方美术家和物理学家相互平行的视角来阐述人们对世界图像的建立过程和理解,以及对物质运动的基本形式(时间、空间和光)的认识。书中通过大量实例,图文并茂地分析了西方美术作品,特别是前卫性艺术作品中的科学性,同时也介绍了经典和现代物理学中的艺术性。全书特点鲜明,具有丰富的物理内涵和人文素材。《物理与艺术》可作为高等学校文化素质教育课程的教材使用,为方便教学,《物理与艺术》配有教学课件和教学素材;同时《物理与艺术》也可作为爱好科学和西方美术读者选读的科普读物。

Visual culture is central to how we communicate. Our lives are dominated by images and by visual technologies that allow for the local and global circulation of ideas, information, and politics. In this increasingly visual world, how can we best decipher and understand the many ways that our everyday lives are organized around looking practices and the many images we encounter each day? Now in a new edition, Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture provides a comprehensive and engaging overview of how we understand a wide array of visual media and how we use images to express ourselves, to communicate, to play, and to learn. Marita Sturken and Lisa Cartwright--two leading scholars in the emergent and dynamic field of visual culture and communication--examine the diverse range of approaches to visual analysis and lead students through key theories and concepts. Using clear, accessible language, vivid examples, and more than 250 full-color illustrations, the authors both explain and apply theory as they discuss how we see paintings, prints, photographs, film, television, video, advertisements, the news, the Internet, digital media, and visualization techniques in medicine and science. This truly interdisciplinary text bridges art history, film, media, and cultural studies to investigate how images carry meaning within and between different cultural arenas in everyday life, from art and commerce to science and the law. Sturken and Cartwright analyze images in relation to a wide spectrum of cultural and representational issues (desire, power, the gaze, bodies, sexuality, and ethnicity) and methodologies (semiotics, Marxism, psychoanalysis, feminism, and postcolonial theory). Thoroughly updated to incorporate cutting-edge theoretical research, the second edition examines the following new topics: the surge of new media technologies; the impact of globalization on the flow of information and media form and content; and how nationalism and security concerns have changed our looking practices in the aftermath of 9/11. Challenging yet accessible, Practices of Looking is ideal for courses across a range of disciplines, including media and film studies, communications, art history, and photography. Beautifully designed and now in a larger format and in full color throughout, Practices of Looking is an invaluable guide to understanding the complexities, contradictions, and pleasures of the visual world. Instructor's manual availalbe online.

One of the most important artists of the twentieth century, Mark Rothko (1903-1970) created a new and impassioned form of abstract painting over the course of his career. Rothko also wrote a number of essays and critical reviews during his lifetime, adding his thoughtful, intelligent, and opinionated voice to the debates of the contemporary art world. Although the artist never published a book of his varied and complex views, his heirs indicate that he occasionally spoke of the existence of such a manuscript to friends and colleagues. Stored in a New York City warehouse since the artist's death more than thirty years ago, this extraordinary manuscript, titled "The Artist's Reality", is now being published for the first time. Probably written around 1940-41, this revelatory book discusses Rothko's ideas on the modern art world, art history, myth, beauty, the challenges of being an artist in society, the true nature of 'American art', and much more. "The Artist's Reality" also includes an introduction by Christopher Rothko, the artist's son, who describes the discovery of the manuscript and the complicated and fascinating process of bringing the manuscript to publication. The introduction is illustrated with a small selection of relevant examples of the artist's own work as well as with reproductions of pages from the actual manuscript. "The Artist's Reality" will be a classic text for years to come, offering insight into both the work and the artistic philosophies of this great painter.

When these essays first appeared in "Artforum" in 1976, their impact was immediate. They were discussed, annotated, cited, collected, and translated - the three issues of "Artforum" in which they appeared have become nearly impossible to obtain. Having Brian O'Doherty's provocative essays available again is a signal event for the art world. This edition also includes "The Gallery as Gesture," a critically important piece published ten years after the others. O'Doherty was the first to explicitly confront a particular crisis in postwar art as he sought to examine the assumptions on which the modern commercial and museum gallery was based. Concerned with the complex and sophisticated relationship between economics, social context, and aesthetics as represented in the contested space of the art gallery, he raises the question of how artists must construe their work in relation to the gallery space and system. These essays are essential reading for anyone interested in the history and issues of postwar art in Europe and the United States. Teeming with ideas, relentless in their pursuit of contradiction and paradox, they exhibit both the understanding of the artist (Patrick Ireland) and the precision of the scholar.