《图像的生与死》是一部讲述图像在西方的起源、演进和死亡的历史，同时也是一部通过分析图像及其传播手段而建立的西方思想史。
《图像的生与死》是一部跨学科研究之作，在书中，雷吉斯•德布雷第一次解释了他所创设的一门新学科：媒介学。该学科处于艺术史、技术史、宗教史等多学科的交汇之处。全书论述了西方人视角下图像从魔幻的到艺术的再到经济的演变过程，对技术革命与集体信仰对于图像所产生的影响进行了深刻分析。作者从西方哲学、宗教、艺术、科技、媒体等方面，对图像起到的作用和反作用进行了详尽又深入的解读，许多观点都闪烁着思想的光芒。

In this authoritative, lively book, the celebrated Italian novelist and philosopher Umberto Eco presents a learned summary of medieval aesthetic ideas. Juxtaposing theology and science, poetry and mysticism, Eco explores the relationship that existed between the aesthetic theories and the artistic experience and practice of medieval culture.

 “[A] delightful study. . . . [Eco’s] remarkably lucid and readable essay is full of contemporary relevance and informed by the energies of a man in love with his subject.” —Robert Taylor, Boston Globe

“The book lays out so many exciting ideas and interesting facts that readers will find it gripping.” — Washington Post Book World 

“A lively introduction to the subject.” —Michael Camille, The Burlington Magazine

“If you want to become acquainted with medieval aesthetics, you will not find a more scrupulously researched, better written (or better translated), intelligent and illuminating introduction than Eco’s short volume.” —D. C. Barrett, Art Monthly

内容提要
视觉研究是脑科学或神经科学发展中一个比较系统、成熟的分支，特别是对视觉
大脑皮层的研究方面。本书以较短的篇幅介绍了视觉信息处理脑机制方面的基本理论
和近30年来所取得的进展。全书共分七章，分别介绍了视觉系统基本功能和形态学、
视网膜信息处理机制、外膝体在对视觉信息流的调控和形成平行处理过程中的作用、
视皮层细胞的感受野性质及其功能构筑、既平行又分级串行的视觉信息处理机制，以
及当前视觉信息处理研究的一些重要方面。本书力图通过对视觉信息处理的脑机制的
介绍，使读者能够对蓬勃发展的脑科学或神经科学有一个相当深度的了解。
本书可作为从事神经生物学、生理学、医学、心理学以及相关学科的研究人员，高
等院校的教师，理、工、医科研究生和高年级本科生的专业参考书，对于眼科、神经内科
和外科医生也有重要参考价值。

被肯尼思•克拉克描述为“我所读过的最才华横溢的艺术批评著作之一”的《艺术与错觉》，是一部有关制像的经典研究。它试图回答一个简单的问题：何以会有被称作风格的东西？这个问题也许简单，却很难回答。贡布里希教授对图画再现的心理学及历史的探索，充满睿智而包罗万象，从而引领他进入许多重要领域。在说明肖像制作远比它看起来要困难这一问题的过程中，贡布里希对许多新老看法作出了考证、质疑与再评价，那些新老观点包括模仿自然、传统的功能、抽象问题、透视的有效性，以及对表现的解释。
本书虽然出版于40多年前，至今仍不失其活力与重要性。贡布里希为理解艺术和处理复杂的观点与理论问题提供了缜密的科学发现。他对人类大脑无穷无尽的能力，对人类观看世界与制作和观看艺术时的微妙关系始终抱有探究之心。当验证各种假说时，他以他深厚的学识和与生俱来的清晰的表达能力，提出了符合科学精神的论辩。再现是艺术史最基本的问题，而《艺术与错觉》是任何对理解艺术有兴趣的人的必读书。《艺术与错觉》第六版包括最新增加的序言，作者在其中讨论了图像与符号的关键差别。

Most designers know that yellow text presented against a blue background reads clearly and easily, but how many can explain why, and what really are the best ways to help others and ourselves clearly see key patterns in a bunch of data?
This book explores the art and science of why we see objects the way we do. Based on the science of perception and vision, the author presents the key principles at work for a wide range of applications--resulting in visualization of improved clarity, utility, and persuasiveness. The book offers practical guidelines that can be applied by anyone: interaction designers, graphic designers of all kinds (including web designers), data miners, and financial analysts.
*First work to use the science of perception to help serious designers and analysts optimize understanding and perception of their data visualizations.
* Major revision of this classic work, with a new chapter on visual thinking, new sections on face perception and flow visualization, and a much expanded chapter on color and color sequences.
*New to this edition is the full color treatment throughout, to better display over 400 illustrations.

《当代数码艺术》是介绍西方最新数码电影、图像及艺术作品的精选集，兼具批评、理论和历史的色彩。这些文章是高名潞和陈小文从二十世纪九十年代以来出版的多部重要英文数码理论文集中遴选而来。它们最初发表在这一领域最重要的英文出版物上，具有一定的代表性。它们有的侧重某一问题，有的比较宽泛，有的理论性强，甚至偏于自然科学理论，有的则偏重人文历史。读者可以从这些具有多样性的文章中发现一些非常敏锐和颇具前沿性的观点，并得到更多的启发。

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.

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.

《视觉信息处理的脑机制(第2版)》以较短的篇幅介绍了视觉信息处理的脑机制方面的基本理论和近40年来所取得的进展。全书共分7章，分别介绍了视觉系统基本功能和形态学、视网膜信息处理机制、外膝体在对视觉信息流的调控和形成平行处理过程中的作用、视皮层细胞的感受野性质及其功能筑构、既平行又分级串行的视觉信息处理机制以及当前视觉信息处理研究的一些重要方面。《视觉信息处理的脑机制(第2版)》力图通过对视觉信息处理的脑机制的介绍，使读者能够对蓬勃发展的脑科学或神经科学有一个相当深度的了解。全书较第l版增加新内容40％左右。
《视觉信息处理的脑机制(第2版)》在介绍当今国际上视觉信息处理的脑机制研究前沿的研究成果的同时，也注意介绍了一些本国学者（包括作者本人）的研究成果。适当地注意介绍了基本理论和研究方法。书后附有516篇参考文献，供读者深入学习、研究检索之用，这对于有志于从事视觉研究或相关学科研究的工作者来说，亦是一个入门的线索。
《视觉信息处理的脑机制(第2版)》可作为从事神经生物学、生理学、医学、心理学以及相关学科的研究人员、高等院校的教师和理、工、医科研究生及高年级本科生的专业参考书，对于眼科、神经内科和外科医生也有重要参考价值。

Walter Benjamin is one of the twentieth century’s most important intellectuals, and also one of its most elusive. His writings—mosaics incorporating philosophy, literary criticism, Marxist analysis, and a syncretistic theology—defy simple categorization. And his mobile, often improvised existence has proven irresistible to mythologizers. His writing career moved from the brilliant esotericism of his early writings through his emergence as a central voice in Weimar culture and on to the exile years, with its pioneering studies of modern media and the rise of urban commodity capitalism in Paris. That career was played out amid some of the most catastrophic decades of modern European history: the horror of the First World War, the turbulence of the Weimar Republic, and the lengthening shadow of fascism. Now, a major new biography from two of the world’s foremost Benjamin scholars reaches beyond the mosaic and the mythical to present this intriguing figure in full.
Howard Eiland and Michael Jennings make available for the first time a rich store of information which augments and corrects the record of an extraordinary life. They offer a comprehensive portrait of Benjamin and his times as well as extensive commentaries on his major works, including “The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility,” the essays on Baudelaire, and the great study of the German Trauerspiel. Sure to become the standard reference biography of this seminal thinker, Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life will prove a source of inexhaustible interest for Benjamin scholars and novices alike.

Is human vision universal and largely unchanging, or historically conditioned? What happened to the Western understanding of vision when the camera obscuraAa simple pinhole camera popular in the 17th and 18th centuriesAgave way to the Kodak? Columbia University art historian Crary brings a multidisciplinary approach to such questions, and though his work is densely written for an academic audience, it can be fun to read if only for the illustrations of such wacky 19th-century optical toys and devices as the phenakistiscope and the Kaiserpanorama. The book's focus is the cultural function and meaning of an ideal of "attentiveness," which reveals that the contemporary prognosis of "attention deficit disorder" has roots in much earlier anxieties about the failure of concentrated perception. Examining a vast range of scientific writings, works of art and objects from the world of early mass entertainment, Crary argues that 19th-century European culture became obsessed with a perceived breakdown in attentionAas focus and concentration seemed to give way to trance, reverie, monomania and hypnosis. At well over twice the length of Crary's earlier book (1990's elegant Techniques of the Observer), this volume is comparatively unfocused and loosely organized. Extended analysis of three central oil paintings by Manet, Seurat and C?zanne promisesAbut never quite managesAto unify all the heterogeneous material into a coherent whole.

《视觉大革命:颠覆人类观念的视觉大发现》内容简介：每个人的眼睛真的拥有超能力，具备读心术、透视以及感知未来的功能？你相信自己的皮肤本质上都是无色,却能变化出任何颜色的全彩显示器吗？

本书是齐泽克最重要的理论作品，齐泽克把它视为自己的代表作（magnum opus），在这部著作中，他把自己原本分散的哲学见解整合起来，使之融为一体，提出了一套独特的存有论。何谓视差？视差本是天文学概念，指从保持一定距离的两个点观察同一个目标时所产生的方向差异。在齐泽克看来，审视同一个客体时，视差是由两个互不兼容的视角构成的，这两个视角之间存在着不可化约的非对称性。以视差为起点，齐泽克透过黑格尔和拉康解读哲学、科学和政治理论，借助辩证思维和精神分析范畴分析当代文化，重新激活马克思主义对全球资本主义的批判。

本书是法国后现代主义哲学家利奥塔的第二本著作，其主旨是批判结构主义，尤其是体现在拉康心理分析中的结构主义。本书分为两部分：第一部分运用梅洛-庞蒂的现象学去颠覆结构主义，第二部分运用弗洛伊德心理分析去颠覆拉康心理分析和现象学的某些方面。利奥塔的出发点是话语（与结构主义和书面文本相关）和图形（与现象学和观看相关）的对立。他认为自从柏拉图以来，结构性的、抽象概念性的思维统治着哲学，贬低感性经验。书面文本和阅读经验同概念思维相契合，而图形、图像和观看经验同感性相契合。本书的意图就是捍卫图形与感性经验的尊严。

人类文明正步入一个虚拟现实的时代！观看技术的新变化意味着什么？我们究竟该如何应对这一全新的视觉世界？
《观察者的技术》无疑是关于该话题极具启发性的作品之一。
乔纳森•克拉里向我们展示出，在19世纪早期，人类同样经历了一场影响深远的视觉革命：从“暗箱”到“立体视镜”。由此，人类之眼成了“现代之眼”。然而，观察技术的转变并不是单纯在技术层面上的革新，其背后还纠缠着对人类身体的崭新理解、社会关系和权力关系的变迁、商品经济的勃兴以及哲学思考的演变等诸多错综复杂的因素。总之，被科技史进步叙事所遮掩的裂痕，就此揭开……

《知觉的悬置》考察了现代注意力的悖论性质，一方面它是个人自由、创造力与经验的根本条件；另一方面，它又是经济及规训体制有效发挥效力的核心因素。克拉里论证了我们有意识地观看或聆听事务的方式，来自人类知觉性质的关键性演变，这一演变可以追溯到19世纪下半叶。那时绘画艺术的发展（特别以马奈、修拉和塞尚的作品为例）深深地卷进了欧洲视觉机制的这场深刻变革。

经过四十亿年的漫长演变，地球变成一个物种繁多、资源丰富、奇特美丽的蓝色星球。然而自人类出现以来，我们只用了二十万年的时间，便将地球的宝贵资源消耗殆尽。珍稀物种灭绝，原始资源奇缺，污染日益严重，人类以及地球的明天将何去何从？
导演扬恩•亚瑟经过15年的筹备，历访50多个国家拍成此片。本片素材长达488小时，拍摄周期为21个月，共动用88,000名员工，从澳洲海底的大堡礁到非洲肯亚高原的乞力马扎罗山；从亚玛逊热带雨林到戈壁沙漠；从美国德萨斯州连绵不断的棉花田到中国上海、深圳的工业城镇。影片以上帝的俯瞰视角向世人展现地球的绝美以及日趋危急的现状。明天并不遥远，但我们该选择怎样的未来？