《敦煌画研究》为日本东方学院东京研究所研究员松本荣一先生（1900—1984）所著，原书为日文写成，1937年由日本东方文化学院东京研究所刊行。1939年，作者以此书为博士论文获得了东京大学文学博士学位。1942年，此书获得“日本学士院恩赐奖”。本书是松本荣一先生长期调查流散世界各地的敦煌绘画，并参照伯希和敦煌石窟图录等石窟资料，分类对各种敦煌绘画进行系统图像学研究的成果。原书分为二册，上册是文字部分，共有八章，每章下又分若干小节，分别探讨了敦煌石窟和敦煌绢画中的各种变相图、佛传图、本生图、特殊尊像图、罗汉图、高僧图、密教图、外教图等，研究扎实详实、分析细致缜密。下册是图版部分，配合上册文字的内容，刊载各种敦煌绘画品及相关图片200余张。

Picturing the True Form investigates the long-neglected visual culture of Daoism, China's primary indigenous religion, from the tenth through thirteenth centuries with references to earlier and later times. In this richly illustrated book, Susan Huang provides a comprehensive mapping of Daoist images in various media, including Dunhuang manuscripts, funerary artifacts, paintings, and other charts, illustrations, and talismans preserved in the fifteenth-century Daoist Canon. True form (zhenxing), the key concept behind Daoist visuality, is not a static picture but entails an active journey of “seeing” underlying and secret phenomena through a series of metamorphoses.
The book's structure mirrors the two-part Daoist journey from inner to outer. Part I focuses on inner images associated with meditation and visualization practices for self-cultivation and longevity. Part II investigates the visual and material dimensions of Daoist ritual. Interwoven through these discussions is the idea that the inner and outer mirror each other and the boundary demarcating the two is fluent. Huang also reveals three central modes of Daoist symbolism—aniconic, immaterial, and ephemeral—and shows how Daoist image-making goes beyond the traditional dichotomy of text and image to incorporate writings in image design. These particular features distinguish Daoist visual culture from its Buddhist counterpart.

《超越再现:8世纪至14世纪中国书画》内容简介：一书所言的内容，是文人画“书画同体”观在艺术史上的精彩表现。我深信中国的艺术史，是不会有“终结”的。艺术史是我们“生活”的遗产。但我要问的是：为什么研究中国艺术史？西方文艺复兴艺术研究的大师——潘诺夫斯基(Erwin Panofsky)的成就，在于打通了西方艺术史与其文化与思想史。他的结论为：“以人为本”，是文艺复兴的一个基本的观念。

Taoism and the Arts of China brings together a remarkable collection of art from one of China's most ancient and influential traditions. Produced to accompany the first major exhibition ever organized on the Taoist philosophy and religion, this opulent book includes more than 150 works of art from as early as the late Zhou dynasty (fifth-third century b.c.) to the Qing dynasty (1644-1911). Many of these works are paintings that show the breathtaking range of style and subject that makes the Taoist heritage so rich. Sculpture, calligraphy, rare books, textiles, and ritual objects are also represented.
Like the exhibition, the book is organized thematically. It begins with the sage Laozi (to whom the Daode Jing is attributed), and moves on to explore the birth of religious Taoism and the interaction between Taoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism. A wealth of subjects are covered: the gods of the Taoist pantheon, ritual, the boundaries and intersections between Taoism and popular religion, Taoist Immortals and Realized Beings, the role of alchemy, sacred landscape and its significance, and Taoist temples and their architecture.
Taoism and the Arts of China includes an engaging series of introductory essays by scholars with a deep understanding of their subjects. Among the topics discussed are a historical introduction to Taoism, archaeological evidence for early Taoist art, and a general introduction to the functions of art in religious Taoism. Lavishly illustrated with over 150 color images, this volume affords a sweeping view of an artistic terrain that until now has received too little exposure in the West. Its publication constitutes a major advance in Western understanding of this important tradition.

《六朝帝陵》以南朝帝陵的石兽和墓室砖画为题，在实地考察南京和丹阳附近南朝帝陵的基础上，结合帝陵的比定，广征博引，对石兽和砖画进行样式学上的编年，并从图像学的角度缜密考证它们的名称和表现内容，提出了许多不同于前人的看法，对于六朝造型艺术的背景、特征及发展都有自己独到的见解，是关于南朝帝陵石兽和砖画研究的集大成之作，被日本和欧美国家许多学校列入美术史和考古专业学生的必读书目。

迈克尔·苏立文教授熟识1930年代到1940年代中国现代艺术运动中许多重要的中国艺术家，并且得到了1979年以来那些声名鹊起的年轻艺术家的信任。他是20 世纪中国艺术的目击者，也是最早和最持久地向西方世界介绍中国现代艺术的研究者。
《20世纪中国艺术与艺术家)》是苏立文教授毕生心血所在，用丰富的文献和生动的语言，描绘了20世纪中国艺术在西方艺术和文化影响下的新生。作者在中国紧张压抑与自由舒放、绝望与希望的双重语境下，讨论艺术家及其作品，卓越地传达了中国文化史与艺术，在20世纪盘根错节的各种力量的纠缠中的各色形态，以及偶尔异乎寻常的怪诞。其中包括传统派与革新派的激烈争辩、首批艺术学校的创建，以及振聋发聩的新观念的诞生，艺术是一种世界语，而那些新观念超越了民族优越感所形成的隔阂。中国古典文人画传统、对西方现代主义的再发现、共产主义影响之下的艺术巨变，及对于艺术核心价值的再思考等等问题，一一纳入了苏立文教授这部迷人的著作之中。

世袭贵族在明代历史研究中基本上被忽略了，或仅仅是其他一些更令人关注的研究对象故事里的脚注。《藩屏》一改旧例，将明朝的贵族（包括被历史遗忘的宗室女性艺术家）作为主角，以王国的艺术生产为中心，讲述王国的历史与地理。这本独具一格的专著，有可能会修正人们对明代艺术的理解。