This is a magnificent study of the beautifully crafted Medieval reliquaries that enshrined holy relics, and their wider historical, cultural, political and religious context. It is published in conjunction with Walters Art Museum and the Cleveland Museum of Art to accompany a major touring exhibition, at the British Museum 23 June 9 October 2011. There is no equivalent book on this fascinating subject. It is an important reference work drawing on the latest scholarship, which will be of value far beyond the exhibition. Drawing on three major museum holdings as well as featuring iconic pieces from other international public and private collections, this richly illustrated book looks at the phenomenon of holy relics in the Middle Ages. Thematic essays and object entries by leading scholars trace the history and development of the cult of relics, from its beginnings in late Roman funerary practices to its rise in both the Byzantine East and the West. Contributors Derek Krueger, Eric Palazzo, Arnoldt Angenendt, Martina Bagnoli, Holger A. Klein, Barbara Boehm, Guido Cornini, Cynthia Hahn, James Robinson, Alexander Nagel, C. Griffith Mann.

《敦煌莫高窟北区石窟》第一卷结语（上），论述了莫高窟北区石窟的类型、性质以及石窟遭到破坏的主要原因。第二卷结语（中），论述了莫高窟北区石窟出土遗物的类别、数量、价值及意义。而在此卷结语（下）则着重论述莫高窟北区石窟的开凿时代和使用时代。
经考古发掘和研究得知，莫高窟北区崖面现存的绝大多数石窟从开凿后就不间断地使用，直到完全废弃。在延续使用的漫长历史时期，有相当一部分石窟，根据后来使用者的需要而进行了改建或扩建，其中有些石窟还不止一次地进行了改建或扩建，致使许多石窟的现状已远非原貌（如第464窟），其后果是给直接探讨这些石窟的开凿时代带来诸多不便和困难。
“石窟本身，也是一种建筑空间”。一个石窟开凿好以后，如无地震、洪水、暴雨等突发性的自然灾害发生，或其他因素所致造成石窟崩塌或破坏，该石窟往往可以延续使用数百年、上千年，甚至更久。但限于石窟本身的内部结构，石窟内的堆积却不能无限制的增加。而继续使用该石窟并在其内活动的后人，则往往把使用该石窟的前人遗留在窟内的堆积和遗物统统清除出去，只有这样，该石窟才能得以继续使用，莫高窟北区石窟也未能例外。故该区现存绝大多数石窟内的堆积和遗物，往往是该石窟最后使用者所遗留，这些石窟内的堆积和遗物所反映的时代，也只能代表该石窟最后使用时代的下限，而不能代表该石窟的开凿时代。这种情况与一般田野考古发掘中发现的房屋遗址废弃前的使用情况相类似，而与通常所见一般古代窖穴、古代城址中时代有早有晚的地层堆积则有别。莫高窟北区现存绝大多数石窟内的堆积层次简单，出土遗物的时代普遍较晚，因而仅仅依据该石窟内的地层堆积和发现的遗物，只能得知该石窟使用的时代下限，尚不能判断该石窟的开凿年代。类似这样在前人开凿的石窟内，后人一再使用，前人的堆积和遗物在现石窟内已基本无存的状况，给探讨北区石窟的开凿时代增加了难度。

《敦煌莫高窟北区石窟》第一卷结语（上），论述了莫高窟北区石窟的类型、性质以及石窟遭到破坏的主要原因。第二卷结语（中），论述了莫高窟北区石窟出土遗物的类别、数量、价值及意义。而在此卷结语（下）则着重论述莫高窟北区石窟的开凿时代和使用时代。
经考古发掘和研究得知，莫高窟北区崖面现存的绝大多数石窟从开凿后就不间断地使用，直到完全废弃。在延续使用的漫长历史时期，有相当一部分石窟，根据后来使用者的需要而进行了改建或扩建，其中有些石窟还不止一次地进行了改建或扩建，致使许多石窟的现状已远非原貌（如第464窟），其后果是给直接探讨这些石窟的开凿时代带来诸多不便和困难。
“石窟本身，也是一种建筑空间”。一个石窟开凿好以后，如无地震、洪水、暴雨等突发性的自然灾害发生，或其他因素所致造成石窟崩塌或破坏，该石窟往往可以延续使用数百年、上千年，甚至更久。但限于石窟本身的内部结构，石窟内的堆积却不能无限制的增加。而继续使用该石窟并在其内活动的后人，则往往把使用该石窟的前人遗留在窟内的堆积和遗物统统清除出去，只有这样，该石窟才能得以继续使用，莫高窟北区石窟也未能例外。故该区现存绝大多数石窟内的堆积和遗物，往往是该石窟最后使用者所遗留，这些石窟内的堆积和遗物所反映的时代，也只能代表该石窟最后使用时代的下限，而不能代表该石窟的开凿时代。这种情况与一般田野考古发掘中发现的房屋遗址废弃前的使用情况相类似，而与通常所见一般古代窖穴、古代城址中时代有早有晚的地层堆积则有别。莫高窟北区现存绝大多数石窟内的堆积层次简单，出土遗物的时代普遍较晚，因而仅仅依据该石窟内的地层堆积和发现的遗物，只能得知该石窟使用的时代下限，尚不能判断该石窟的开凿年代。类似这样在前人开凿的石窟内，后人一再使用，前人的堆积和遗物在现石窟内已基本无存的状况，给探讨北区石窟的开凿时代增加了难度。

Within the canon of European photography books it would be difficult to find one more famous, revered and influential as Henri Cartier-Bresson's The Decisive Moment, wrote Jeffrey Ladd in Time LightBox, in a feature on Steidl's new edition of this ultimate photobook classic. Originally published in 1952, this collection of Cartier-Bresson's best work from his early years was embellished with a collage cover by Henri Matisse. The book has since influenced generations of photographers, while its English title defined the notion of the famous peak in which all elements in the photographic frame accumulate to form the perfect image--not the moment of the height of the action, necessarily, but the formal, visual peak. This new publication--the first and only reprint since the original 1952 edition--is a meticulous facsimile of the original book that launched the artist to international fame, with an additional booklet on the history of The Decisive Moment by Centre Pompidou curator Clément Chéroux.
Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) was born in Chantelou-en-Brie, France. He initially studied painting and began photographing in the 1930s. Cartier-Bresson cofounded Magnum in 1947. In the late 1960s he returned to his original passion, drawing. In 2003 Cartier-Bresson established the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris, one year before his death.

本书收录藏学专家研究敦煌古藏文文献16篇，内容涉及及吐鲁蕃时期吐蕃社会的法律诉状，职官蕃制、宗教礼仪，卜辞医学等。全书是藏学研究重要资料。
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Screen of Kings is the first book in any language to examine the cultural role of the regional aristocracy or ‘kings’ – relatives of the emperors – in Ming dynasty China (1368–1644). Through an investigation of their patronage of architecture, calligraphy, painting and other art forms, and through examination of the contents of their splendid and recently excavated tombs, this innovative study puts the aristocracy back at the heart of accounts of China’s cultural and artistic histories, from which they have until very recently been excluded.
In this book, Craig Clunas sheds new light on many familiar artworks, as well as works that have never before been reproduced. Screen of Kings challenges much of the received wisdom about Ming China; new archaeological discoveries have furnished us with evidence of the lavish, spectacular lifestyles of the country’s provincial kings and demonstrate how central the imperial family was to the high culture of the Ming era.
Written by the leading specialist in the art and culture of the Ming period, this new work of scholarship illuminates a key aspect of China’s past, and will significantly alter our understanding of Ming dynastic power and relations. It will be enjoyed by anyone with a serious interest in the history and art of this great civilization.

This is a book about why medieval manuscripts matter. Coming face to face with an important illuminated manuscript in the original is like meeting a very famous person. We may all pretend that a well-known celebrity is no different from anyone else, and yet there is an undeniable thrill in actually meeting and talking to a person of world stature.
The idea for the book, which is entirely new, is to invite the reader into intimate conversations with twelve of the most famous manuscripts in existence and to explore with the author what they tell us about nearly a thousand years of medieval history - and sometimes about the modern world too. Christopher de Hamel introduces us to kings, queens, saints, scribes, artists, librarians, thieves, dealers, collectors and the international community of manuscript scholars, showing us how he and his fellows piece together evidence to reach unexpected conclusions. He traces the elaborate journeys which these exceptionally precious artefacts have made through time and space, shows us how they have been copied, who has owned them or lusted after them (and how we can tell), how they have been embroiled in politics and scholarly disputes, how they have been regarded as objects of supreme beauty and luxury and as symbols of national identity. The book touches on religion, art, literature, music, science and the history of taste.
Part travel book, part detective story, part conversation with the reader, Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts conveys the fascination and excitement of encountering some of the greatest works of art in our culture which, in the originals, are to most people completely inaccessible. At the end, we have a slightly different perspective on history and how we come by knowledge. It is a most unusual book.

"Fast-paced and compelling . . . Waxman has an array of wondrous tales to tell . . . Considerable, admirable, and totally absorbing."--"The Boston Globe"For the past two centuries, the West has plundered the treasures of the ancient world to fill its great museums, but in recent years the countries where ancient civilizations originated have begun to push back, taking museums to court, prosecuting curators, and threatening to force the return of these priceless objects.Sharon Waxman brings us inside this high-stakes conflict, from the great cities of the West to Egypt, Turkey, Greece, and Italy, as these countries face down the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum, the British Museum, and the J. Paul Getty Museum. She shows how the actions of a few determined and implacable characters may yet strip these museums of some of their most cherished treasures.For readers who are fascinated by antiquity, who love to frequent museums, and who believe in the value of cultural exchange, "Loot" opens a new window on an enduring conflict.

國立故宮博物院的收藏，雖說承襲自清宮，然其淵源，實遠紹自千年前趙宋宮廷。宋太祖平定諸國，接收後蜀、南唐皇室收藏。宋太宗屢詔天下，搜訪前賢墨蹟。徽宗年間，內府收藏益豐，今日故宮所藏北宋名蹟，均來自當時宣和內府。本院所藏北宋書畫名蹟早已蜚聲國際，此次特展不僅國寶盡出，尤向美國大都會博物館、納爾遜-阿金斯博物館商借五件名品一併展出，實屬創舉，觀眾應慶有此眼福，本院特印製精美展覽圖錄，以供典藏，並誌盛事。

这是一部图书发展史，以图书为切入点，以时间为轴，将历史上的100本最有代表性的书按年代编排，讲述图书发展史，讲述人类文明史，展现了人类5000年来探索思想沟通和知识的历程。100本源自世界各地的书，这些书或因其内容和影响力，或因其代表了书籍制作史的某一里程碑都收录于这本书中。 每本书放在历史长河的特定历史背景下，与当时的文明和历史都有着紧密的联系。
本书详细介绍了从墓志铭到纸莎草上的第一篇作品；罗马时期，卷轴是怎样让位于第一部装有封面的古抄本；从昂贵的手抄本到活字印刷术的发明以及为大众阅读发明的印刷技术；从印刷书籍的出现到数字图书，电子阅读器及其后续产品。电子书时代将图书带到了一个转折点。而事实上，自古埃及时期起，抛去陈旧的技术，运用新技术，这早已成为图书发展史上一部分。
书中配有300余幅经典插图，从可视化角度阐释了书籍的历史，其中更有难得一见的善本，让读者对提到的图书有直观概念，而不仅仅停留在想象阶段，扩展了读者对图书的理解的广度与深度。