象征着中国古代中西文化与经济的交流及友好往来的“丝绸之路”，是中国历史文明和智慧编织出的一条璀璨绚丽的丝带，而敦煌石窟艺术就是在这条丝带上光彩夺目的一颗明珠。希望通过本书，能唤起更多有智之士对中华民族传统的优秀文化重视，并促使当今的装饰设计的同行专家们也能认识到“是把敦煌的东西渗透一下的时候了”。

本书主要内容包括：武梁祠解读，认知王振朋、林一清及元代宫廷界画，儒仙新像，新见明人所绘柳如是像跋尾，中世纪的一位精神病艺术家等等。

图像学在1984年通过《美术译丛》引入中国，当时范景中先生约请几位学者翻译了潘诺夫斯基和贡布里希的几篇著名论文，后来在1990年出版的《象征的图像》里，又系统介绍了图像学的理论、方法和成果。这引起了一些学者，特别是敦煌研究者的浓厚兴趣。 图像学在西方早已成为美术史的基础学科，也为人文学赢得了极大的光荣，即使是当今视觉文化潮流中的干将，也情愿打出新图像学的旗号，而不敢断然否决它。因此，图像学一直处在争论和改变当中。而它对中国美术史有何意义，则尤为我们所期待。现在上海师范美术学院打算以图像学为学科建设的重点，并以图像学的早期杰出学者马勒为介绍起点，这无疑是有益于学术界的一项重要工作。此文即简介马勒的图像学研究，希望能激起图者细读原著的兴趣。

Product Description In the first exploration of Chinese paintings as both material products and pictorial representations, The Double Screen shows how the collaboration and tension between material form and image gives life to a painting. A Chinese painting is often reduced to the image it bears; its material form is dismissed; its intimate connection with social activities and cultural conventions neglected. A screen occupies a space and divides it, supplies an ideal surface for painting, and has been a favorite pictorial image in Chinese art since antiquity. Wu Hung undertakes a comprehensive analysis of the screen, which can be an object, an art medium, a pictorial motif, or all three at once. With its diverse roles, the screen has provided Chinese painters with endless opportunities to reinvent their art. The Double Screen provides a powerful non-Western perspective on issues from portraiture and pictorial narrative to voyeurism, masquerade, and political rhetoric. It will be invaluable to anyone interested in the history of art and Asian studies.

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. Using a thematic structure many issues are examined, for instance: landscape as a cultural construct; the relationship between landscape as accessory or backdrop and landscape as the chief subject; landscape as constituted by various practices of framing; the sublime and ideas of indeterminacy; landscape art as picturesque or as exploration of living processes. These issues are raised and explored in connection with Western cultural movements, and within a full international and historical context. Many forms of landscape art are included: painting, gardening, panorama, poetry, photography, and art. The book is designed to both take stock of recent interdisciplinary debates and act as a stimulus to rethinking our assumptions about landscape.

Buddhism is the single common thread uniting the Asian world, from India to South-East Asia and through Central Asia to China, Korea and Japan. To guide and inspire believers, innumerable symbols and images were made, beginning in India in the 3rd century BC. This phenomenally diverse tradition includes not only frescoes, relief carvings, colossal statues, silk embroideries and bronze ritual objects but also rock-cut shrines with a thousand Buddhas, the glorious stupas of South-East Asia and the pagodas of the Far East, the massive "mandala in stone" of Borobudur in Java and entire 13th-century temple complexes at Angkor in Cambodia. The author describes all the Buddhist schools and cultures, and explains their imagery, from Tibetan cosmic diagrams and Korean folk art to early Sri Lankan sites and Japanese Zen gardens.

Leo Steinberg's classic "Other Criteria" comprises eighteen essays on topics ranging from "Contemporary Art and the Plight of Its Public" and the "flat-bed picture plane" to reflections on Picasso, Rauschenberg, Rodin, de Kooning, Pollock, Guston, and Jasper Johns. The last, which Francine du Plessix Gray called "a tour de force of critical method," is widely regarded as the most eye-opening analysis of Johns' work ever written. This edition includes a new preface and a handful of additional illustrations.

《1979年以来的中国艺术史》是在1990年完成的《中国现代艺术史1979-1989》（1992年出版）和2000年完成的《中国当代艺术史：1990-1999》（2000年出版）两部书的基础上改写、修订而成的。将这两部书合二为一重新编辑出版出自以下的原因。 我们是1979年至1999年这20年中国改革历程的见证人，也是中国前卫艺术在这20年中发生和演变过程的亲历者。在这20年中，前卫艺术自身的成长，如同中国政治经济改革一样，总是显得脚步匆忙。我们用“进步”这样一个概念来描述这20年中国前卫艺术的状态也许有些笼统和不适当，但我们却应该承认，在这20年中发生的一切，其丰富性和多样性的却远远超过了此前的时代。 当我们站在了另一个世纪的岸边，回过头来观望身后的风景，我们才发现，时间的忘川是如此之深，以至于每一个涉过这条河流的人都有忘却的危险，哪怕我们对曾经发生的一切有着亲切而生动的感性常识。把写作和出版于两个十年的艺术史合并起来，出自一种方便：是为了给今后的人们，尤其是学习艺术的学生们，提供一个建立自1979年以来中国新艺术发展逻辑的材料背景。这两部书写自不同的时间，而有不同时间里的判断，好在这二十年的发展关系是如此的密不可分，也就很容易构成一个新的历史整体。

现代艺术是指兴起于西方20世纪初发展起来的新的、非传统的艺术，由于其体现的变革性理念，它常常为大众所费解。本书是第一本写给大众看的现代艺术入门书。本书用最浅显的方法，以及最具亲和力的图文说明，介绍现代艺术的发展，让读者找到欣赏的方法和乐趣。本书让读者认识30个1870年迄今最关键的艺术流派，例如野兽派、未来派、达达派、表现派、超现实主义、波普艺术、装置艺术等，鉴赏85幅选自世界顶尖艺术美术馆珍藏的经典杰作，认识110位重要的现代艺术大师。其中既包括作为现代艺术诞生之初的印象派作品，比如莫奈与毕加索等人的画作，也包括后来发展过程中出现的以杜尚等人为代表的先锋艺术作品，还包括了一些21世纪前后以新媒材为表现手段的作品。为了进一步方便读者学习现代艺术，追踪进展，本书还提供了丰富全面的全球艺术网站链接。

《希腊的雕塑(彩图本艺术哲学)》除了同为公元七十九年埋在地下的古城——庞贝（Pompei）与赫库兰尼姆（Herculanum），被发掘了一些宝石镶嵌画和小型壁画以外，占代绘画巨制基本都已毁灭，只有希腊这个人类历史中最悠久的占国之一，还为我们保留并展示了古代人类淳朴的艺术，即“希腊的雕塑”。 《希腊的雕塑（彩图本艺术哲学）》分“种族、时代、制度”三个部分，为我们讲解了这一远古的艺术瑰宝。希腊大量雕塑的内容是美好的人体，是古代希腊神话中的神灵，这些雕塑是一种全民性的艺术体现，是一种风俗习惯与民族精神的艺术体现。

Choosing ten symbols from the natural world (the sun, the shell, the bird) and ten man-made (the window, the book, the mirror), Françoise Barbe-Gall illuminates our understanding of how these have been used and developed in art from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century, with sixty-eight wonderfully vivid examples. Painting has always made abundant use of forms and objects to convey abstract ideas: love, hope for eternal life, loyalty or betrayal. These recurring motifs, which were familiar to many in the past, have mostly become mysterious to the audiences of today. Today's art-lover will have to learn to look out for all the small things that can so easily seem like unimportant details, or simply decoration. But a flower, a reflection in a mirror or a bird in flight nearly always mean more than they first appear to. From Holbein's apple of knowledge to the black cat at the foot of Manet's Olympia, from Magritte's mysterious candles to Georgia O'Keeffe's flowers, this book shows how each work makes use of the language of symbols in an original and more meaningful way.

《世界宗教艺术图典》以浩瀚的篇幅容纳世界种种宗教艺术作品，3000余幅全彩图片精彩呈现了人类的宗教文化及其影响力。以期便于读者充分地了解人类丰富多彩的艺术与宗教的渊源和关联。内容横跨五大洲，纵览史前至21世纪，不但系统地介绍了犹太教、基督教、佛教、伊斯兰教的艺术，而且对古代北欧、古代西欧、古代埃及、古代西亚、古代印度、古代伊朗、古代希腊、古代罗马的宗教艺术也进行了梳理，还呈现了澳大利亚、东南亚、非洲、美洲的各类宗教艺术。

Which of us, when finding ourselves in the presence of a painting, has not sensed that we lack the keys to decipher it? We feel an emotional response, but the work still seems to evade our understanding. Francoise Barbe-Gall combines a nuanced understanding of the way viewers respond to paintings with a rich knowledge of their context and circumstances of their creation. The result is like a tour of a dazzlingly eclectic museum in the company of a gentle yet authoritative guide. She takes as her point of departure the impressions that we all feel when confronted by a canvas and takes us on a voyage of discovery fired by her own passionate enthusiasm for the subject. What is the painting’s relationship with the real world? Has the artist idealized nature, or distorted it? Did they want to shock the viewer, or provide consolation? With a clear approach and straightforward yet subtle analysis, the meaning of each work slowly becomes clear. From Raphael’s penetrating character study of Castiglione, through Hopper’s cinematic take on the wee small hours of the morning Barbe-Gall begins by covering a number of ostensibly realistic works, made from the stuff of everyday life. Going in quite the other direction, she looks at the way paintings can express moments of heightened reality, from the perfection of Boticelli’s Primavera to the arresting glance of Vermeer’s girl with the Pearl Earring. She discusses paintings that distort the visible world (Parmigianino’s Madonna with an improbably long neck to Dali’s melting clocks) and those that sow confusion to make us more vigilant and pay closer attention to the real world (Cezanne’s depiction of a forest glade, or a mysterious fifteenth century altarpiece). Questions of history, style, iconography and composition are not neglected and are dealt in context of the paintings she discusses.

《中国画的构图》讲述了远近、层次构画法。作为空间的全方位而论，无所谓近远，也无所谓近大远小。所谓远近，是人在一个视点，在一定视域内所感觉出来的。人不仅有近大、远小的感觉，还有空间层次的感觉，并作为客观现象而存在。

《全球艺术史(第2版)》从独特的观察视角剖析了50余幅巨作，例如乔托的《哀悼基督》《圣母子》、马萨乔的《逐出伊甸园》《圣三位一体》、达•芬奇的《岩间圣母》《最后的晚餐》、米开朗基罗的《大卫》、拉斐尔的《亚历山大城的凯瑟琳》、提香的《田野合奏》等等，着力挖掘艺术构想的精髓，阐释独具匠心的创作技巧，体现广大和精微并重、深入和浅出两立的特色，实为研究之佐，入门之径。

《中國藝術史》由中央美術學院薄松年教授精心編撰而成，內容包羅萬象，網羅之廣與其他相關藝術史書有很大的不同。本書以事件為主，特別是解釋中國藝術史上重要作品的歷史、藝術地位。文字簡潔有力，不在學說理論的爭論上拘泥。薄教授教學數五十載，從他的教學經驗與和社會大眾講解藝術的經驗，完成這本以圖為主，貫通古今，囊括深度及通俗的藝術史大書。 《中國藝術史》以大事紀的方式，時間為軸，從上古新石器時代的岩畫到九Ο年代中華藝術中的重點事件，輔以數百餘幅精美圖片配合而成。內容不只涵蓋了傳統藝術史中道統表現及文人畫風，其他以前較少與正藝術史共置的民間藝術與器物也被收納入本書，門類之多，堪稱現有圖集中少有的表現，勾畫出中國美術發展的軌跡，顯示出中國美術的創造和成就。 每一面為一個事件或主題，主文為重要性及在藝術史上的位置，小框則為畫家生平及相關專有名詞知識，也包括美術技巧及工藝風格的詳細說明。 ◎五千年前，中華文化的表徵，龍的形象已經出現在今內蒙古境內，卻一直到1971才被人發現，稱為「中華第一龍」。 ◎風流南唐李後主竟也懷疑宰相韓熙載漠視朝政，派顧閎中以畫記載而成《韓熙載夜宴圖》，殊不知宰相是因為內鬥無力而悲觀放縱，是新聞圖像紀錄的始祖之一，卻令人沉思再三。 ◎台北故宮博物院的鎮館之寶，也是罕見的限展品，北宋《谿山行旅圖》、《萬壑松風圖》，呈現的不只是宋朝書畫的極致，也是畫風與政治的巧妙映現。 ◎藝術如何呈現文革後的傷痕和反省，為當代藝術奠定的完整基礎？ 對映於《世界藝術史》的《中國藝術史》，從與西方藝術如出一轍的岩石壁畫開始，呈現了母性崇拜。人物畫的精巧遠在數千年前的春秋戰國時代就已如同當時的哲學思想般發達。 當中華文化經過多次改朝換代，接受各種外來文化洗禮，往往有高超的具時代性的藝術成就。從震驚世界的蜀三星堆文化，到中古時期集多種文化累積的石窟佛教文化，在在體現中國藝術流傳至今的多樣性和豐富性。 也因為如此碩大的寶藏，多數人為之卻步，加上宋朝以降文人畫高標準的斷定方式，造成藝術精英化的迷思。 薄松年教授多年對於中國藝術的研究和民俗工藝藝術的鑽研，本書才得以補足大部分中國藝術史書無法涵蓋的豐富全貌。以藝術史上大事及重要作品為軸的呈現方式，也增加本書的實用性和可讀性，絕對有助於對中國藝術史宏觀式的認識。