How did Jackson Pollock become a cult figure for the Beat Generation? And what caused his reputation to continue to soar? This compelling and original Abrams classic, now back in print, locates the artist in the continuum of his times, recreating the social and cultural milieu of New York in the 1940s and 1950s. With extensive knowledge of Pollock's habits (much of it gained through interviews), his reading, his conversation, and the exhibitions he visited, the author retraces many of the far-flung sources of Pollock's work. A wealth of comparative photographs that illustrate paintings by artists Pollock admired further explains the work of this complex, tragic, and immeasurably influential figure. Pollock's big, bold canvases are reproduced in five colors to convey the brilliance of his network of tones, his aluminum paint, and his sparkling collage materials. Six gatefolds show his vast horizontal works without distortion and a chronology provides a summary of the major events of Pollock's life.

This title is a Taschen 25 - Special edition! This title deals with Vermeer's women, their duties and unspoken dreams. The 35 paintings that have come down to us from the hand of Jan Vermeer (1632-1675) place him beside Rembrandt and Frans Hals as one of the great masters of the golden age of Dutch art. Little is known of Vermeer's early life and training, though we can be certain that he never knew great success or acclaim during his lifetime, and after his death - reputedly in part because of the stress of his debts - his work was almost completely forgotten for the best part of two centuries. And yet today he is acknowledged as an exquisitely talented and highly original artist. Most of his pictures (all of which are reproduced in this book) show middle-class women about their daily business. Vermeer records the tasks and duties of these women, the imperatives of virtue under which their lives were lived, while also evoking their dreams and their contrasting inner worlds. Every book in Taschen's "Basic Art Series" features: a detailed chronological summary of the artist's life and work, covering the cultural and historical importance of the artist; approximately 100 color illustrations with explanatory captions; and, a concise biography.

《高俅斯和鹈鹕公社》是彼得·格林纳威“荷兰大师”系列的第二部影片，影片故事背景设定在导演最钟爱的时代——16世纪，讲述了荷兰著名画家、雕刻师亨德里克·高俅斯(Hendrik Goltzius，1558-1617)的传奇故事。影片中高俅斯和他的同伙（包括Dane Anne Louise Hassing）抵达阿尔萨斯的科尔马镇，向当地贵族提议将舞台上性禁忌表演从《旧约》的桎梏中解脱出来。
影片运用舞台剧形式大胆解构圣经故事：亚当与夏娃、索多玛与蛾摩拉、大卫与拔示巴、波提乏之妻、参孙与大利拉、施洗约翰与莎乐美、西门与佩罗等。影片有大量匪夷所思、令人难以接受的场面：深陷伊甸园里的肉欲、乱伦、通奸、恋尸……
英国导演彼得·格林纳威(Peter Greenaway)，被公认为最具野心且具争议性的导演之一。他从上世纪六十年代中期开始制作自己的实验特性影片。他曾执导的影片包括：《绘图师的合约》(1982)、《枕边书》(1996)、《厨师、大盗、他的太太和她的情人》(1989)。彼得·格林纳威坚持认为电影不应单纯依靠影像来叙事，他的作品很大程度上受到视觉艺术、制图艺术、人体艺术、美学和建筑艺术的影响。

Richard Diebenkorn, who died in 1993, is generally acknowledged as one of the most influential American artists of the twentieth century. The luminous abstractions of his later career and the innovative figurative works of his middle years firmly established him as a master in the high tradition of modernism. This revised and expanded edition of the first comprehensive monograph on the artist presents a rich selection of the artist's oeuvre. Until the mid-1950s, he painted in the abstract expressionist tradition (synthesizing, as he has since, such disparate influences as de Kooning, Gorky, Hopper, and Cezanne) before turning (unfashionably) to figurative painting along with artists David Park and Elmer Bischoff. He then embarked on the series of large abstract paintings for which he is best known--each titled "Ocean Park" after the beachside community where he worked. Reminiscent of Matisse in color and Mondrian in geometry, these are some of the most remarkable accomplishments of twentieth-century art. The updated section of this edition follows Diebenkorn's career from the mid-1980s until his death, focusing particularly on his adventurous late works on paper. In each "phase" of his career, Diebenkorn explored the intricate interplay between formal rigor and luminous, sensual color with the same masterful hand. Along with several hundred reproductions of the artist's work, critic Gerald Nordland provides a thoughtful and informative study of Diebenkorn's life and career, an updated, comprehensive exhibition history, and a selected bibliography.

Berlin-based Johannes Kahrs paints suggestive, ghostly forms in shifting tones and gradations of grey and black pastel, leaving contours blurred. Detached from their original context, almost unrecognizable representational fragments emerge. With introductory text by Ralph Rugoff, director of London's Hayward Gallery, this volume provides the first comprehensive survey of Kahrs' oeuvre.

'The execution of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, in 1867, was the subject of a quartet of paintings by the French Impressionist and early Modernist Edouard Manet. These works are rarely shown together, and in fact cannot be seen in their entirety, since one of them exists only in fragments, but the three intact paintings and the surviving elements of the fourth are reproduced in this publication, and will be shown at The Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition in the fall of 2006. Maximilian's death was an event of great public interest in France, in part because French policies shared the responsibility for it. A European aristocrat of the Hapsburg family, Maximilian had been installed in 1864 after a trio of European powers, led by Napoleon III of France, mounted an invasion of Mexico to reclaim debts upon which the Mexican government had suspended payment. But Napoleon soon withdrew, abandoning Maximilian to his fate at the hands of a resurgent Mexican army. As news! of the execution reached Paris, Manet reacted with a group of works synthesizing the information as it came to him and drawing heavily on an earlier painting inspired by violent political events, Goya's The Third of May. In addition to analyzing and documenting the creation of these works, John Elderfield, in his text, clarifies their historical importance in the context of modern art, and in so doing, offers a capsular history of the place of current events in art.

The Belgian-born conceptual painter and artistic interventionist Francis Alys developed "The Sign Painting Project" over a period of four years. He began by painting fairly small canvases depicting people and objects in the flat, brightly-colored manner of billboard advertisements. The artist, who currently lives in Mexico, then asked local sign-painters Juan Garcia, Enrique Huerta and Emilio Rivera to copy and enlarge his paintings. The result of the artists' combined labors is a set of 120 paintings that reveal variations on particular themes and that inevitably provoke questions about collaboration, authorship and originality. This book, which features 300 color plates, is a catalogue raisonne of that project.

《林泉高致》是北宋时期论山水画创作的重要专著。作者郭熙，字淳夫，河阳温县人，著名画家。《林泉高致》由郭思编述其父郭熙的创作经验和艺术见解而成。
《林泉高致》产生在中国山水画充分成熟的时期，集中地论述了有关自然美与山水画的许多基本问题。郭熙认为,山石林泉胜景是“君子”所向往的,但他们不愿因渴慕自然风光而远离君、亲，面对山水画就可以“不下堂筵，坐穷泉壑”，充分领略自然山水的美，以解决“君子”厌烦世俗事务而又留恋功名的矛盾。用观画代替欣赏自然真景的所谓“卧游”的思想，早在南朝的宗炳就已提出。但宗炳是谢绝仕途的隐士，而郭熙却是为宫廷服务的山水画家。因此他对自然美的看法，既不同于宗炳，也不同于以纵情山水求得精神解脱的文人画家。
在绘画理论史上，郭熙最早明确而具体地提出，山水画家应当努力创造一种美的境界，使观者“如真在此山中”,产生可游、可居的感觉,得到精神上的满足。同时，境界的创造，又与表现山川“意态”的美不能分离，所谓“春山淡冶而如笑”、“冬山惨淡而如睡”等说法，表明郭熙看到了山水的“意态”美，同人的感情与自然景物的交流密切相关。他和同时代的苏轼，都看到了诗画在意境上的相通点。郭熙还强调画家不应单纯模仿一家一派，也不应拘泥于一时一地的景色，而应“饱游饫看”，广泛摄取山水美的“精粹”，而后加以熔铸创造，这和西方绘画中强调实景写生很不相同。郭熙在探求山水画的艺术美的过程中创立了“三远”说，即高远、深远、平远，在理论上阐明了中国山水画所特有的三种不同的空间处理和由此产生的意境美、章法美。
《林泉高致》存世的古版本有北京图书馆藏明抄本、《四库全书》文津阁本和文渊阁本等。

水墨，是传统人文对美独有的体验。
或许今天很多人知道梵高，知道达芬奇《蒙娜丽莎的微笑》，很少人知道倪瓒，知道范宽的《溪山行旅》。
曾有对水墨画感兴趣的朋友要我推荐相关讲解的书，我也为难。私以为水墨画是在轻风拂柳、湖舟烟雨里，在古诗词、或是一个诗意的心情里。而不在“谢赫六法”、“南北宗论”、“马牙刮铁”、“解索牛毛”、图章考据的专业研究里。实实在在的对着一幅画，比看学术论文要获得更多。美需要知识的积累，但美并不等于知识，更不是一个被学术蒙得乏味无趣的模样，它是生命感动过的领悟，一种智慧的表达。
今年有幸接到人民美术出版社尹然老师的邀请，选了部分宋元时期的作品，开一扇简白易读的门，若能给更多人静下来读画的心，发现美的眼，趣味的想象，最好。

用簡單的語言表達複雜的思想，用宗教的語彙昇華現實的創傷
紐約畫派代表畫家馬克‧羅斯柯的生涯與藝術追敘
探索現代主義時期色域繪畫的靜穆、靈光與禪性
馬克‧羅斯柯（Mark Rothko 1903-1970）為紐約畫派領導畫家之一，在1940年代末期開創色域繪畫風格，對美國二次大戰後現代主義抽象表現繪畫的發展影響深遠。
羅斯柯1903年出生俄羅斯，是猶太裔，原名馬克斯．羅斯柯維茲（Marcus Rothkowitz）。1913年十歲時隨家人移民美國。1919年獲獎助學金在耶魯大學讀人文科學，後來遷居紐約，進入藝術學生聯盟，投入繪畫創作，此時受教於麥克斯‧韋伯，結識畫友高爾基、史提爾、紐曼、杜庫寧與馬查威爾。這群美國年輕藝術家在第二次世界大戰後形成紐約派，並在紐約現代美術館舉行「美國十五位藝術家展」，得到全美與國際的注目。羅斯柯被評為紐約畫派的「神學」派中最完滿的畫家。
羅斯柯於1938年歸化美國，1940年他37歲時在畫廊建議下，將原姓改為羅斯柯（Rothko），表示他改變風格的欲望，他與畫友葛特萊布在《紐約時報》發表聲言：「我們喜歡把複雜的思想用簡單的語言來表現。我們選擇大號的尺幅是因為它的衝擊力毫不含糊。我們希望重新建立繪畫的層面。我們使用平面的圖象，因為它能毀滅幻覺、表現真理。」開頭的一句－－「把複雜的思想用簡單的語言來表現」，可說是羅斯柯一生繪畫追求的理念。
羅斯柯的繪畫在四○年代受超現實主義影響，從古典神話與新舊約聖經故事中找尋他繪畫語彙的形體和題材，表現神秘的主題，並且對悲劇特別感興趣。歐洲猶太民族遭受的恐怖迫害，帶給他的精神創傷，引發他畫作主題的改變，羅斯柯視這項轉變為對救贖經驗的探索。1947年起，開始創作以色面的輪廓中浮游著長方形的抽象繪畫。1949年他發展出成熟的繪畫風格，在巨幅的直式畫布上，數個長方形色塊，或是不同彩度的薄染色層，相互平行排列，色域邊緣模糊而不平整，使朦朧色塊產生一種律動感。羅斯柯運用單純構圖，藉由色彩與光暈的交融，創造出引人凝神靜思心靈體驗。他的色域繪畫成就，是美國當代繪畫和歐洲畫壇分家的契機，很多人喜愛羅斯柯富有禪性，具有靈光的色域畫面。他避開了描繪細節的線條和任何暗示具體形象的造形，五彩繽紛色塊游移在空間，繪畫性的筆觸把形象簡化到只剩下色彩和筆跡。他的抽象畫都是浩瀚的尺幅，「我畫得大，正是因為我要它親密而有人性，畫得小就等於你把自己關在經驗的外面，如果你畫得大，你就在裡面了。」他畫出了宇宙的渾沌的感覺。
羅斯柯著名的代表作，是1964年至1967年時為休士頓的梅尼爾家族委託創作的一組油畫，陳列在休士頓萊斯大學的一所小教堂，被稱為羅斯柯教堂，巨大的油畫，或黑、或藍紫和紫紅，表現生命的神秘與靜穆，追尋人生的終極哲學──赤裸又神聖的宗教體驗與感情。藝評家羅伯．休斯指出：進入羅斯柯教堂而不動感情是很困難的，……究竟是神秘主義者瞥見的「太虛」呢，還是一種令人難忘的戲劇性的空洞，要視每個人的希望而定。從功效來說，羅斯柯教堂是浪漫主義的最後沉默。
羅斯柯一生創作八百多幅油畫，兩千件紙上作品，被推崇為二十世紀頂尖大師，他的繪畫為我們提供了一個冥想的立體空間，渾沌色域激盪了無數當代藝術家的心漪。

An authoritative work on Edouard Manet, viewed by many as the father of modern painting. Few artists have created as much controversy as Manet: his avant-garde work not only challenged the traditions of art, but also addressed society as a whole. With his painting Olympia (1869), he was to become, to quote Degas, "as famous as Garibaldi." Yet how the diffident son of a bourgeois family became the father of both realism and impressionism is a complex story that has too often been overlooked. As Manet has rightly become recognized as a touchstone for historical change, his personal story has become all the more relevant to the study of art history. This lavishly illustrated volume, presented in a handsome slipcase, offers a comprehensive study of the great master.

本书是作者关于中国晚期绘画史写作计划的第一种，探讨元代绘画。元代是蒙古人统治中国的时代，却也是中国文人画发展最具活力与原创性的时代。在蒙古人废科举制度的情形下，读书人面临着变节或失业的两难窘境，很多文人政途不通，转而以为人占卜、代书或绘画为业。本书即讲述了在这个异族统治、志不得伸的年代里，画家如何以绘画来表达自己的看法与心声的故事。

The Spanish artist Antonio Lopez Garcia is revered worldwide not only for the extreme realism he brings to his paintings and drawings, but because he conveys through this extreme realism a wonderful sensitivity to light, color and space, enabling each to breathe with a tranquility that allows for the encroachments of everyday life. Interior scenes of dining tables, bathroom sinks, toilets, dressers are depicted in sober light that recall Chardin or the intimisme of Vuillard--though Lopez Garcia surpasses even these masters in his ability to make unforgivingly prosaic subject matter, such as a brick wall or a refrigerator, sparkle and throb with mood. The artist's statement that "you work until the whole surface has an expressive intensity equivalent to what you have before you, converted into a pictorial reality" conveys something of the labor he brings to his works: Lopez Garcia is not a prolific artist, and as a result shows rarely (his 2008 exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, consolidated his already strong audience in the U.S.). His drawings and paintings are equally esteemed, but until now, the drawings have never been the subject of a monograph. All of the work in this superbly designed publication has been carefully selected by the artist's daughter, Maria; much of it has never been reproduced until now. Including 200 color plates and a moving text by the artist himself, it stands as a powerful testimony to Lopez Garcia's astounding achievement.
Antonio Lopez Garcia (born 1936) studied at the School of Art in Madrid in the early 1950s, and quickly became part of a nucleus of realist painters, such as Francisco Lopez Hernandez, Amalia Avia and Isabel Quintanilla. Lopez Garcia was the subject of Victor Erice's 1992 film El Sol del Membrillo ( The Quince Tree of the Sun ), which closely chronicles the artist's attempts to paint a quince tree.

意大利裔画家莫迪里亚尼（安迪·加西亚 Andy Garcia 饰）在短暂的一生中都在与艺术大师巴勃罗·毕加索抗争。生前唯一一幅击败毕加索的作品，其中描绘了他深爱的女人。落拓不羁的莫迪里亚尼混迹在巴黎蒙马特高地画家圈子里，他过着充斥着酒精、大麻与女人的放荡生活。在一次写生 课上，他遇上了生命中的挚爱珍妮（艾尔莎·泽贝斯坦 Elsa Zylberstein 饰），他邀请她做自己的模特，为珍妮创作了大量肖像作品。但是在一幅准备参加画展与毕加索竞争的作品中，他留下了珍妮的眼睛没有画。他对珍妮解释说：当我了解你的心灵深处时，我将画你的眼睛。他从珍妮身上获得源源不断的灵感，让他持续旺盛的创作激情。但是，他的艺术不能像毕加索那样被大众所认同，不良的生活习惯让他染上难以痊愈的结核病。就在他领取与珍妮的婚姻登记证时，遭遇了强盗，惨死在街头。
画展开幕了，所有观众都被画中女人的忧伤眼神所感动，甚至感动了毕加索，掌声久久响起。

The new series on Renaissance painting, written and presented by Matthew Collings, begins with an artistic investigation into one of the most radiant and beautiful images in all of art history, The Madonna of the Meadow, painted in 1505 by Raphael.
Renaissance art has become part of the 21st-century heritage industry but when Raphael was alive, it was a startling new form of visual expression, and Raphael's vibrant 'realism' was striking and fresh. It became the model for western art for the next 400 years, right up until the birth of Modernism.
As much as it was a cultural 'rebirth', the Renaissance was also a revolution in ideas about reality. Matthew Collings sets out to remind us of how radical Renaissance paintings were when they were made, as well as opening our eyes to what is still truly great about them. In this programme he deconstructs The Madonna of the Meadow with the help of the very latest high-resolution digital technology, which allows him to explore the inner secrets of Raphael's painterly effects with a clarity and at a level of detail never before seen on television.
As Matthew says, it is a journey 'to the other side of an illusion', revealing how Raphael created the alluring images that were so appealing to his wealthy Renaissance clients - including the Pope - and which entranced artists for centuries after his death. Matthew explains the secret to Raphael's vibrant colour harmonies, which the artist grasped intuitively, long before the advent of colour 'theory'; and Raphael also knew how to exploit colour effects to create the impression of extraordinary depth in his paintings.

《中国寺观壁画全集4:明代寺院佛传图》主要介绍了以《释氏源流》和《释迦牟尼应化示迹图》为蓝本的明代佛传故事壁画。在存世作品中，四川剑阁觉苑寺大雄宝殿的十四舖佛传壁画最为完整。《中国寺观壁画全集4:明代寺院佛传图》将其全部收入，并参照有关佛经内容，逐幅加以解说。