Building on the arguments of her previous books, Body Criticism (1991) and Artful Science (1994), Good Looking challenges the reflexive identification of images with vice. Today rampant criticism, both inside and outside the academy, condemns the immoralities of aesthetic illusion, museum display, cable television, and hypermedia. Believing with the American pragmatists that it is harder to do than to denounce, Barbara Stafford urges imagists to abandon Foucault's bankrupt paradigm of verbal combat. Instead of more "improving" theoretical discourse, she calls for developing a positive visual praxis on the interpretive ruins of linguistic postmodernism. Not deconstructive autopsy, but demonstrating the historical virtues of visualization for the emergent era of computerism is the task at hand. These twelve essays meditate on the stunning implications of a global shift toward vision and visionary modalities. Apparatus changes, but the basic questions endure. Machine dreams flowing from laser disks, video tapes, CD-ROMs, and magnetic disks are transforming educational, medical, and legal institutions as well as on-line society at large. Organized around three major themes - the explosion of optical information, the urgency of inventing an imaging interdiscipline, and the ethical dilemmas of technological transparency - these pieces connect a disappearing lens culture to the digital diaphanousness of the twenty-first century. Art historian Barbara Maria Stafford is William B. Odgen Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago and current president of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. -- from back cover.

Maud Lavin approaches design from the broader field of visual culture criticism, asking challenging questions about about who really has a voice in the culture and what unseen influences affect the look of things designers produce. Our culture is dominated by the visual. Yet most writing on design reflects a narrow preoccupation with products, biographies, and design influences. Maud Lavin approaches design from the broader field of visual culture criticism, asking challenging questions about about who really has a voice in the culture and what unseen influences affect the look of things designers produce. Lavin shows how design fits into larger questions of power, democracy, and communication. Many corporate clients instruct designers to convey order and clarity in order to give their companies the look of a clean new world. But since designers cannot clean up messy reality, Lavin shows, they often end up simply veiling it. Lacking the power to influence the content of their commercial work, many designers work simultaneously on other, more fulfilling projects. Lavin is especially interested in the graphic designer's role in shaping cultural norms. She examines the anti-Nazi propaganda of John Heartfield, the modernist utopian design of Kurt Schwitters and the neue ring werbegestalter, the alternative images of women by studio ringl + pit, the activist work of such contemporary designers as Marlene McCarty and Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, and the Internet innovations of David Steuer and others. Throughout the book, Lavin asks how designers can expand the pleasure, democracy, and vitality of communication.

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•本书是近二十年来，视觉研究方法领域的权威著作。就它企图对研究视觉材料的各式各样的方法进行全面而系统的讨论和评价而言，本书依然独一无二。
•本书第3版，增加了对受众研究、民族志、照片文档、照片引谈、摄影小品，以及视觉伦理研究等视觉方法的讨论，展示了视觉研究及其方法的不断发展的本质。
•书中穿插的大量关于数字媒体的内容，亦是新版的一大亮点。
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本书坚定地专注于研究方法而不是媒体。书中的主体章节，每一章都会讨论一种可用于诠释视觉材料的方法，而每一章要用何种视觉材料来探究这种方法，则取决于它是否最能体现这种方法的步骤、长处和不足。本书要做的就是深度探讨每一种方法。
第1章是对用来理解视觉文化各种不同理论方法的概览，同时也探究了一些关于无处不在的数字影像所造成的差异问题。
在第2章中，作者精心制作了一个指导读者使用她提出的“批判性视觉方法论”的实用性框架。
第3章详细解释了本书的结构，这将有助于读者从随后讨论方法的章节中有所斩获。
从第4章到第10章均专注于处理既有影像的方法，如内容分析、符号学、精神分析和话语分析等。
第11章比前一版更为细致地专注于另外一些研究视觉影像的方法，这些方法旨在处理为解答研究的问题而制作的视觉影像。
视觉伦理学是第3版中全新的一章。研究活动中的伦理学关乎研究者的行为。它关注他们研究中自身的诚实和坚定性，以及他们正在与什么材料，或跟谁一起展开研究如此这般的关系问题。

Experimental Jetset’s second volume in its self-reflective series is an inquiry into the role of the city as an infrastructure for language and vice versa, seen through the lens of four significant movements: Constructivism, Situationist International, Provo, and Post-Punk. Emerging from a research project and exhibition by the design studio, the book features extensive footnotes by 20 guest authors, including Linda van Deursen, Owen Hatherley, Adam Pendleton, Simon Reynolds, Lori Waxman, Mimi Zeiger, and others. An added bonus: it comes with a 26-page zine, zooming in on the design typology of the original exhibition.

在这部著作中，马尔库塞总结了20世纪左派激进运动衰落的实践，重新在理论上对人的本能解放进行了强调。在对资本主义批判、对马克思主义美学和现代艺术进行考察的基础上，系统阐述了以下论点：艺术的社会政治作用与它的审美形式功能，始终保持着辩证的关联，人的本能解放这一乌托邦构想，要凭借艺术一审美的方式才能达到。只有以艺术、文学为中心的“审美之维”的革命才能在根本上造就崭新的人的心理一观念结构，从而实现人的解放。《审美之维》是当代美学史上的经典著作。

In a career spanning more than forty years, Derek Birdsall has achieved renown as a leading book designer in Britain. This practical and inspirational book distils a lifetime’s professional experience. It presents and discusses nearly fifty books he has designed, showing 360 spreads and covers, all in full color and to scale. The designs range from Penguin paperback covers in the 1960s to a recent complete redesign of The Church of England’s book of Common Worship. Among Birdsall’s projects are award-winning art catalogues, catalogues raisonn� on such major artists as Mark Rothko and Georgia O’Keeffe, and books on wine, chess, astronomy, architecture, and fine paper. Birdsall discusses and illustrates the process of book design, from brief to deadline (which he calls the designer’s muse). He includes specimen settings of his favorite text faces as well as an innovative metric grid system for designing books. In addition, he lists books he himself has found useful or inspiring. For every reader curious about the design or production of books, this is a uniquely informative and instructive book.

From the man who brought you the layout of John Berger’s Ways of Seeing comes a comprehensive selection of writings covering over 40 years of reflection on graphic design history, from interviews, essays, letters and articles to lectures and course outlines. Designed by Richard Hollis himself and densely illustrated with over 500 thumbnail images, About Graphic Design charts the insatiable curiosity and methodological rigour of the renowned graphic designer, graphic design theorist and historian. This book is testimony to the importance of the role of the graphic designer – who ensures the legibility of our urban spaces – and to the value of historical precedent for contemporary graphic design.

Will the Internet of the future just be enhanced television with 'buy-now' features? Is it destined to become no more than another leisure and commerce medium, or can it be steered away from this fate by designers, taking it to surprising new directions? In this manifesto designers, critics and multimedia specialists such as Kevin Kelly, Max Kisman, Steven Heller, Aaron Betsky, and Dagan Cohen express their opinions in sharp, thought-provoking questions and declarations. In a social milieu continually transformed by computers and communication technologies, can design make a difference? Has interactive design lost its battle to interface ignorance? Are we faced with a future in which our bodies will be the interface? Everyone is a Designer is meant to inspire new creativity with its incisive look at the new "Design Economy."

What happens when anything can be labeled design? We simply don’t see it anymore because it’s everywhere. This manifesto investigates the design inflation: is design taking over contemporary arts and aesthetics, turning the world into a uniform visual soup?

Multi award-winning designer, typographer and TED speaker, Craig Ward, presents his first self-authored book - Popular Lies About Graphic Design. An attempt to debunk the various misconceptions, half truths and, in some cases, outright lies which permeate the industry of design.
Lovingly designed and written both passionately and irreverently, Ward pulls from his ten years of experience to tackle lighter subjects such as design fetishists, Helvetica's neutrality and urgent briefs, alongside discussions on more worthy topics such as the validity of design education, the supposed death of print, client relationships and pitch planning. In addition, the book features contributions and insights from more than a dozen other established practitioners such as Milton Glaser, Stefan Sagmeister, Christoph Niemann and David Carson making it a must for students, recent graduates and seasoned practitioners alike.

Vielfältige Antworten auf die Frage, was Design heute sein und bewirken kann. Not at Your Service: Manifestos for Design bündelt die unterschiedlichsten Facetten an Überzeugungen, Themen und Praxen von Designerinnen und Designern an der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste. Die Publikation bietet vielfältige Antworten auf die Frage, was Design heute sein und bewirken kann. Kollaboratives Design, Interaktion in komplexen Systemen, die Ökonomie der Aufmerksamkeit, ökologischer Wandel, Visual Literacy, geschlechterneutrales Design, die schmutzige Praxis der Designethnografie, soziale Verantwortung, der Wert von Hässlichkeit, Death Futures, immersive Technologien, Identität und Krise, Design als Transformationsdisziplin – all dies sind Themen, die in diesem Lesebuch mit Leidenschaft, persönlicher Überzeugung und professioneller Expertise zur Debatte gestellt werden. Eine kompakte Sammlung von diskursiven Texten zu den vielfältigen Aufgaben von Design. Beiträge zur aktuellen Debatte über die gesellschaftliche Rolle von Design. Statements von Experten von einer der führenden Hochschulen für Design. Alle Texte sind auf Deutsch und Englisch.

本书讲述的是印度被殖民时期的艺术故事，在呈现欧洲自然主义在印度出现时所引起的紧张和矛盾的基础上，分析了殖民主义与民族主义之间的相互影响，追溯了艺术从毫无疑问的西化到印度民族身份建构的演变。本书收集了印度各地博物馆、基金会、出版社收藏的代表作品，涵盖了传统工艺、版画、本土艺术、插图、印刷、古董，深描艺术家的生存模式等内容，为读者展开了一幅南亚深厚的历史画卷。

☀ 多元信仰碰撞出南亚次大陆的艺术火花，现代主义与后殖民主义激发当代创作活力
☀ 打破欧洲中心主义的单一标准，追寻璀璨多彩的古老文明
☀ 贡布里希高徒、印度艺术研究泰斗帕沙·米特全景解读从史前到后现代的印度艺术
☀ 收录150幅全彩高清插图及特别绘制的南亚次大陆地图
《印度艺术》梳理了南亚次大陆从公元前300年至21世纪艺术发展的历史，追溯了佛教、印度教、耆那教、伊斯兰教、基督教赞助人和工匠如何创造出符合不同的宗教和意图的丰富的艺术形式；石窟、神庙、雕塑、绘画等又如何为不同时期的政权服务。通过探究艺术生产与赞助、个人创造力与统治意识形态间的互动，平衡印度教、佛教的影响和一直以来被低估的印度伊斯兰艺术、殖民时期和现代艺术的成就，书中的每个时期都呈现出其独特风情。
全书收录150张插图，全面展示印度艺术的各种形态。若干建筑解剖图带读者走进神秘而鲜活的印度教神庙内部，了解南北印度不同的建筑风格，解析莫卧儿皇帝在新首都中蕴藏的野心，以及殖民时期建筑对印度城市风貌的塑造。17世纪是绘画的世纪，在莫卧儿皇帝和北方邦国的宫廷中，艺术家们吸收多样的本土和外来技法，创作了大量肖像、风景、静物和叙事作品，华丽的色彩和纤细的笔触体现了极致的观察和无与伦比的技巧。欧洲艺术的透视法通过艺术学院和机械复制技术迅速为殖民时期的印度艺术家所吸收。泰戈尔等实践着立体主义、原始主义等先锋潮流，同时结合民族主义风潮创造出了独特的风格，艺术也成立抵御殖民主义的武器。独立后，印度、巴基斯坦和孟加拉国现代艺术在全球化的同时都得到长足发展，尤其是20世纪80年代以来的女性创作。除了对自身经历的自传式记录，她们也把社会批判作为描绘的对象。
活色生香的印度艺术与崇尚“高贵的单纯和静穆的伟大”的欧洲艺术迥异，也遭遇了几个世纪的误读。本书企图破除这种学术传统，在印度艺术的语境中，展现最单纯、最多元的美。

Swiss designer and artist Karl Gerstner (1930–2017) had a significant influence on typography and the history and development of postwar graphic design. Designing Programmes is one of his most important and influential works. It was first published in 1964, and reissued in a new design by Lars Müller Publishers in 2007; both editions are now rare (the first almost completely unavailable). Now, Lars Müller reissues the book with its original design.
Here, across four essays, Gerstner provides a basic introduction to his design methodology and suggests a model for design in the early days of the computer era. Gerstner's innovation was to propose a rule set or system defined by the designer that would determine all aesthetic decisions for a given product: for example, a logo might also function as a layout grid system or inspire a font. Today the book is especially topical in the context of current developments in computational design. With many examples from the worlds of graphic and product design, music, architecture and art, Designing Programmes inspires the reader to seize on the material, develop it further, and integrate it into his or her own work.

A witty, tongue-in-cheek discussion of design's potentials and pitfallsIn focusing on creating preferable conditions, the discipline of design is optimistic by default. And yet, vernacular manifestations of skepticism, dissatisfaction and even resentment toward design abound. Instead of systematically discarding them, can these "sad passions" shed a valuable light on the blind spots of the field? Can disillusion be something more than disillusionment? Can it become an emotional method to unveil design's dysfunctions and contradictions?
Author Silvio Lorusso looks into historical and present manifestations of design disillusion to shorten the gap between expectations and reality when it comes to the everyday practice of designers. Using humorous and irreverent visuals, often containing jokes about design, Lorusso constructs thoughtful dichotomies on such topics as synthesis and autonomy, power and impotence, and aspirations and compromise. The result is an amusing yet academic consideration of the design profession and its future.
Silvio Lorusso (born 1985) is the author of Entreprecariat: Everyone Is an Entrepreneur. Nobody Is Safe. He holds a PhD in Design Sciences from the Iuav University of Venice, and is an assistant professor and vice-director of the Center for Other Worlds at the Lusófona University in Lisbon.

The world is working exactly as designed. The combustion engine which is destroying our planet’s atmosphere and rapidly making it inhospitable is working exactly as we designed it. Guns, which lead to so much death, work exactly as they’re designed to work. And every time we “improve” their design, they get better at killing. Facebook’s privacy settings, which have outed gay teens to their conservative parents, are working exactly as designed. Their “real names” initiative, which makes it easier for stalkers to re-find their victims, is working exactly as designed. Twitter’s toxicity and lack of civil discourse is working exactly as it’s designed to work.The world is working exactly as designed. And it’s not working very well. Which means we need to do a better job of designing it. Design is a craft with an amazing amount of power. The power to choose. The power to influence. As designers, we need to see ourselves as gatekeepers of what we are bringing into the world, and what we choose not to bring into the world. Design is a craft with responsibility. The responsibility to help create a better world for all. Design is also a craft with a lot of blood on its hands. Every cigarette ad is on us. Every gun is on us. Every ballot that a voter cannot understand is on us. Every time social network’s interface allows a stalker to find their victim, that’s on us. The monsters we unleash into the world will carry your name. This book will make you see that design is a political act. What we choose to design is a political act. Who we choose to work for is a political act. Who we choose to work with is a political act. And, most importantly, the people we’ve excluded from these decisions is the biggest (and stupidest) political act we’ve made as a society.If you’re a designer, this book might make you angry. It should make you angry. But it will also give you the tools you need to make better decisions. You will learn how to evaluate the potential benefits and harm of what you’re working on. You’ll learn how to present your concerns. You’ll learn the importance of building and working with diverse teams who can approach problems from multiple points-of-view. You’ll learn how to make a case using data and good storytelling. You’ll learn to say NO in a way that’ll make people listen. But mostly, this book will fill you with the confidence to do the job the way you always wanted to be able to do it. This book will help you understand your responsibilities.

"If only we students of art could learn from some of the best picture makers of the 20th Century. As a young professional many years ago, I studied the principles set down in the Famous Artist School for decades, and at quite a price tag I might add. What a pleasure to discover this budget-minded treasure trove of word and picture from the superstars of American illustration. It includes such luminaries as Norman Rockwell, Harold Von Schmidt, Albert Dorne, and oh so many others. Absolutely invaluable!"
- Steve Huston
"If only we students of art could learn from some of the best picture makers of the 20th Century. As a young professional many years ago, I studied the principles set down in the Famous Artist School for decades, and at quite a price tag I might add. What a pleasure to discover this budget-minded treasure trove of word and picture from the superstars of American illustration. It includes such luminaries as Norman Rockwell, Harold Von Schmidt, Albert Dorne, and oh so many others. Absolutely invaluable!" -- Steve Huston, author of Figure Drawing for Artists

A book whose sales have not diminished but rather increased dramatically since its publication 45 years ago, this bestselling classic is the ultimate manual of drawing taught by the late Robert Beverly Hale, who's famed lectures and classes at New York City's Art Student League captivated artists and art educators from around the world.
Faithfully producing and methodically analyzing 100 master drawings--including works of Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Rodin, Goya, and Rembrandt among others--Hale shows how these artists tackled basic problems such as line, light and planes, mass, position and thrust, and anatomy. With detailed analytical captions and diagrams, every lesson is clearly delineated and illustrated. Throughout, also, is commentary that sheds light on the creative process of drawing and offers deep insight into the unsurpassed achievements of the masters.