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.

本书站在宏观的历史视角，以时局变迁下南宋官制异动为经，以宫廷画师的职官迁转、调度运作、画艺薪传为纬，剖析为何宋室南渡，朝廷无法复置如同北宋翰林图画院，省舍独立的实体画院。研究结果表明，南宋由“御前画师” “非御前画师”两大模式供职宫廷，为远绍唐代，汰换北宋，孕育元、明、清宫廷绘画机构运作机制的摇篮推动者。此一运作模式，在宋亡后不断转型，由御前画师蜕变为后世对南宋实体画院制度的想象。文字古典优美，视野宏阔而目光锐利，读之恍若置身南宋。

《故宫建筑内檐装修》是《故宫经典》之一。《故宫经典》是从故宫博物院数十年来行世的重要图录中，为时下俊彦、雅士修订再版的图录丛书。故宫博物院建院八十余年，梓印书刊遍行天下，其中多有声名皎皎人皆瞩目之作，越数十年，目遇留犹叹为观止，珍爱有加者大有人在；进而愿典藏于厅室，插架于书斋，观赏于案头者争先解囊，志在中鹄。
有鉴于此，为延伸博物馆典藏与展示珍贵文物的社会功能，本社选择已刊图录，如朱家溍主编《国宝》、于倬云主编《紫禁城宫殿》、王树卿等主编《清代宫廷生活》、杨新等主编《清代宫廷包装艺术》、古建部编《紫禁城宫殿建筑装饰——内檐装修图典》数种，增删内容，调整篇幅，更换图片，统一开本，再次出版。
惟形态已经全非，故不再蹈袭旧目，而另拟书名，既免于与前书混淆，以示尊重；亦便于赓续精华，以广传布。
故宫，泛指封建帝制时期旧日皇宫，特指为法自然，示皇威，体经载史，受天下养的明清北京宫城。经典，多属传统而备受尊崇的著作。
故宫经典，即集观赏与讲述为一身的故宫博物院宫殿建筑、典藏文物和各种经典图录，以俾化博物馆一时一地之展室陈列为广布民间之千万身纸本陈列。
一代人有一代人的认识。此次修订再版五种，今后将继续选择故宫博物院重要图录出版，以延伸博物馆的社会功能，回报关爱故宫、关爱故宫博物院的天下有识之士。

This work explores significant physical aspects of the printed book in late imperial China to reconstruct the changing assumptions with which Chinese popular novels were originally read from the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries. It focuses on the previously neglected areas of book format, varieties of illustrations and their significance, and the theory and practice of reading illustrated narratives.
The author first considers the physical book itself, as a vehicle for reading and as an object for visual enjoyment, tracing the development of the format commonly used for popular reading materials, the blockprinted book in sewn volumes with illustrations. He describes the technological progress that made book production efficient and economical by the middle of the sixteenth century, and makes extensive comparisons between the physical characteristics of novels and books of more artistically refined content.
The focus of the study then shifts to the illustrations that accompanied virtually all printed materials during the period when popular fiction became common. They are found to consist of a range of conventional elements that are related to images in more refined arts, such as the paintings of the literati and the decorations produced by commercial artists. Close parallels in both content and pictorial motifs between these various levels of painting and book illustrations suggest a continuum of the arts on which the pictures in mass-produced fiction initially held a respectable position.
The final chapters assert, from a theoretical perspective, the function of illustrations in narratives as a guide or a hindrance to reading. The author demonstrates the correspondencebetween the later decline of fiction illustrations and the growth in reading audiences, explaining this connection as a function of flagging interest in pictures -- which often interfere with, rather than promote, the visualization so essential to reading for pleasure in other cultures as well.
Throughout, the author incorporates findings from the history of technology, new explorations in the development of commerce in cultural objects, recent research on the commercial arts, and the latest theories of reading for pleasure to situate -- and explain -- the numerous changes in popular literary trends during the last several centuries of imperial Chinese rule.

本书收入了十五篇文章，讨论了自商周以迄宋元的青铜、钢铁、金银、陶瓷、石刻、漆画等类古文物的一些具体问题。而它们或多或少都和东西文化交流有点关连。笔者研究的出发点本是探讨我国出土文物的性质，但有时被其中所饮食的外来因素所吸引，而随着若干诱人的细节，追踪到一片陌生的天地中去。。。

Julia Andrews's extraordinary study of art, artists, and artistic policy during the first three decades of the People's Republic of China makes a major contribution to our understanding of modern China. From 1949 to 1979 the Chinese government controlled the lives and work of the country's artists—these were also years of extreme isolation from international artistic dialogue. During this period the Chinese Communist Party succeeded in eradicating most of the artistic styles and techniques it found politically repugnant. By 1979, traditional landscape painting had been replaced by a new style and subject that was strikingly different from both contemporary Western art and that of other Chinese areas such as Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore.
Through vivid firsthand accounts, Andrews recreates the careers of many individual artists who were forced to submit to a vacillating policy regarding style, technique, medium, and genre. She discusses the cultural controls that the government used, the ways in which artists responded, and the works of art that emerged as a result. She particularly emphasizes the influence of the Soviet Union on Chinese art and the problems it created for the practice of traditional painting.
This book opens the way to new, stimulating comparisons of Western and Eastern cultures and will be welcomed by art historians, political scientists, and scholars of Asia.

本書收錄石守謙教授自1994至2007年間陸續發表的十五篇論文，共分五個單元，以元明繪畫為主，上溯五代，下及二十世紀。作者以中國繪畫史的論述架構為經，以不同研究論題為緯，探索並示範中國繪畫的研究方法。
自二十世紀中期以來，關於中國繪畫研究的方法與模式已有長足發展，其中以風格學的形式分析貢獻最力，在時代風格的確立與特定風格系譜的建立方面，成果卓著，但另一方面也出現了侷限。作者對此作了回顧與反思，質疑以西方狹義的「再現」（representation）標準來研究中國繪畫的適當性，進而提出「畫意」作為一種觀看中國繪畫的方式。「畫意」一詞原出自中國傳統畫史，但作者試圖從藝術品與觀者互動的角度予以考量，力求將作品還原至創作初始的文化情境來理解其「畫意」。全書以「畫意」一旨貫串，於風格分析的基礎之上，一方面開展新議題，一方面對傳統的議題提供新視角，如以族群衝突、交融的觀點解析豐富多元的蒙元繪畫、或以區域競爭的角度觀察地方畫派等，其中對於「文人畫」發展的重新審視與解讀，更是前所未發之真知灼見。
作者就不同研究個案的題材與性質，選擇切入視角與適當的研究方法，同時展現了藝術史微觀的深入與宏觀的淵博。本書不僅可提供中國繪畫愛好者一窺中國繪畫精髓的管徑，更為中國藝術史提供一組多元、開放而可行的研究方法，是不容錯過的一部佳著。

寒烟衰草，古木遥岑，丰碑特立，四无行迹，观此使人有古今之感。
以木结构为基础的建筑形态造就了中国古代与西方截然不同的“废墟”观念，极少表现废弃人造建筑的绘画传统以独特的方式传达时间的流逝。传统中国对“往昔”的视觉感受和审美在历史的进程中与西方文化碰撞、交互，由此诞生了一种全新的现代中国视觉文化；而抗日战争结束以后，当中华民族走出了那个满目疮痍的时代，那些昏暗而危险的废墟应该何去何从？
本书在全球语境中思考中国的美术和视觉文化，分析了一系列丰富的传统和当代视觉材料，包括绘画、碑拓、建筑、摄影、电影、印刷品，以及装置与行为艺术，讲述属于中国的 “废墟的故事”。

唐小兵教授长期在国外从事中国现代版画研究，并从版画史研究转向当代版画艺术的搜集、策展与阐释，在该领域发出了权威的声音。本书着重探讨中国当代视觉文化中社会主义文化生产的影响与审美价值，涉及当代电影、绘画等多种艺术门类，在西方语境下，与西方媒体及中国研究的主流观点进行了有益多元的对话。这是一部值得我们重视的学术著作。
——陈思和（复旦大学中文系教授）
这是一部极具野心和洞察力的作品，不仅抽丝剥茧地解读了当代中国视觉文化的建构过程，而且把这些视觉秩序与新中国创造新文化的宏伟规划联系起来。作者在批判性地反思美国观者对当代中国视觉文本的“文化偏见”的同时，尝试建立一种历史化地阅读新中国版画、电影、先锋艺术等视觉媒介的“观看之道”。这对更加辩证地理解当代中国的文化史及其海外传播有重要的启示意义。
——张慧瑜（北京大学新闻与传播学院研究员）
当代中国纷繁的艺术创新和视觉环境，蕴涵着怎样的历史经验和逻辑？“视觉文化”这个概念，能让我们看到什么？《流动的图像：当代中国视觉文化再解读》以富于同情的眼光，全球化的视野，追溯多种视觉艺术形式的创作实践和历史语境，呈现出当代中国视觉文化的丰富多彩与鲜活可观。书中所展开的“再解读”，不仅是文化研究的方法，也可以是当代中国读者在自身文化经验中收获认同与震撼的“再发现”。

★ 卡尔维诺×非虚构写作，卡尔维诺怎样用想象力驾驭非虚构写作？
★ 《论童话》是卡尔维诺对编写《意大利童话》的全面总结。
★ 《论童话》是卡尔维诺献给世界童话的一首情诗。
因为卡尔维诺，《意大利童话》才能成为比肩《安徒生童话》和《格林童话》的经典，而一手缔造这一奇迹的卡尔维诺，他眼中的经典童话有着怎样的基本规律和范式？
《论童话》是卡尔维诺对意大利童话编写工作的全面总结，也是他献给世界童话的一首情诗。卡尔维诺研究了世界各地的童话故事，把它 们的奇妙、质朴、趣味和寓意都吸收到意大利童话的整理和改写中。他是当之无愧的“意大利童话之父”。
找卡尔维诺编写《意大利童话》，这个选择不仅是英明的，而且几乎是不可避免的。当时的意大利没有任何其他作家更适合这一角色，接下来的许多年也不会再有。
——马里奥•拉瓦杰托，意大利文学评论家

高居翰主编，喜龙仁、梁庄艾伦参与编辑。爱好研究中国书画绝对必不可少的参考工具书。

《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。

维多利亚时代，约翰·罗斯金开拓了一个美学研究的新领域，力图把艺术从旧的观念和束缚中解放出来，倡导自然生命力的视觉概念，其视觉理论为印象主义信念的先声。他支持描画自然的透纳，预言他“终将有一天会在英国的名人记录中与莎士比亚和弗朗西斯•培根齐名”。他第一个定义“拉斐尔前派”，以革新派的姿态大力支持其青年画家。让拉斐尔前派以一个革新派的面貌出现于画坛，对19世纪下半期的英国绘画产生一定的影响。本书收录罗斯金所有有关透纳与拉斐尔前派的论文、演讲及书信、绘画作品等，全面展现罗斯金的美学观点。

基督教内部分为东正教、天主教和新教三大派系。圣像是在基督教会中对基督、圣母、圣徒、天使和教会节日等画像的称呼。圣像作为东正教礼拜和神学的组成部分，在基督教文化和艺术中占有重要地位。本书是关于东正教圣像研究的第一部中文著作，以图文并茂的形式系统介绍和解释了东正教圣像的历史起源、神学含义、宗教功能、艺术特点、基本类型以及从拜占庭到俄罗斯的圣像艺术发展历程。
该书是由中国学者首次撰写的东正教圣像艺术专著，它图文并茂，五彩缤纷，叙述言简意赅，朴实而深沉，将使读者，特别是爱好绘画艺术的读者感到新颖和喜爱，享受到圣像画艺术的魅力。——乐峰（中国社科院东正教著名权威学者，《俄国宗教史》作者。）

敦煌莫高窟是中国古代艺术的宝库，完整保存了自北凉到元代绵延一千余年的佛教石窟艺术，至今仍有492座洞窟存留壁画及彩塑。本书旨在以一座曾令张大千、常书鸿、董希文等艺术家为之动容、潜心临摹的北魏经典洞窟为例，引领普通观众去了解敦煌石窟的历史文化与艺术成就。

What is Chinese painting? When did it begin? And what are the different associations of this term in China and the West? In Chinese Painting and Its Audiences, which is based on the A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts given at the National Gallery of Art, leading art historian Craig Clunas draws from a wealth of artistic masterpieces and lesser-known pictures, some of them discussed here in English for the first time, to show how Chinese painting has been understood by a range of audiences over five centuries, from the Ming Dynasty to today. Richly illustrated, Chinese Painting and Its Audiences demonstrates that viewers in China and beyond have irrevocably shaped this great artistic tradition.
Arguing that audiences within China were crucially important to the evolution of Chinese painting, Clunas considers how Chinese artists have imagined the reception of their own work. By examining paintings that depict people looking at paintings, he introduces readers to ideal types of viewers: the scholar, the gentleman, the merchant, the nation, and the people. In discussing the changing audiences for Chinese art, Clunas emphasizes that the diversity and quantity of images in Chinese culture make it impossible to generalize definitively about what constitutes Chinese painting.
Exploring the complex relationships between works of art and those who look at them, Chinese Painting and Its Audiences sheds new light on how the concept of Chinese painting has been formed and reformed over hundreds of years.