《100个改变艺术的伟大观念》打破了传统学术观念中先理论后实践的顺序，将实践放置于理论之前进行编排。书中记述了100个在艺术史上产生过重大影响的观念，从上万年前的岩洞壁画、粘土锻炼，到近日的活动影像和数字技术，还包括油画、版画、水彩、拼贴、焊接等。这100个观念都各自有其独立而清晰的艺术史线索，很多都可以单独写成一本书，但本书仅用不足千字的篇幅简明扼要地将其描述出来。本书大致依循了这样一个历史线索：从旧石器时代艺术到古代、中世纪、文艺复兴时期的艺术，直至近日。在此大框架中，每个板块又有着它内在的时间线索。当代艺术对艺术家的作品创作产生了深远的影响，但以往的艺术更是通过重新阐释而持续地对艺术家创作观念产生影响。虽然有些观念，例如手绘圣经、图画寓言等，已明显走向了尽头，但大部分的观念至今在某些领域的实践中仍有保存。

鲁普雷希特·冯·考夫曼 2007-2010 作品集

继2001年出版的“世界当代摄影家告白”，顾铮先生又为我们辑录了这本珍贵的访谈。从开首的曼·雷到最后的横江文宪，涵括上世纪初直抵当今的二十多位摄影家。本书内容丰富，图文并茂，具有很强的可读性。

根据西方艺术史界享有盛名的《加德纳艺术通史》的第12版翻译出版。
著名学者海伦•加德纳的《世界艺术史》自1926年首次出版以来，因广受好评而不断再版，成为读者最多，流传最广的英文艺术史书籍。同时还被美国许多大学选为艺术史专业的教材，又是一本颇具权威的艺术通史类教科书。该书遵循加德纳的基本框架，以“全景化”的视角来阐释艺术发展的主旨，内容从史前到20世纪的后现代主义艺术，涉及绘画、雕塑、建筑、设计、摄影及工艺美术等多个艺术门类，体现出权重平衡的整体观和客观性。在全面的基础上，加德纳艺术通史还注重图像完整的历史与文化背景，以及它在过去和现在的不同学术地位，为相关专业的学生、老师以及有这方面兴趣的人士提供了更多的帮助。相较之前的各种版本，本书新增了丰富的图像与文字资料，并且图像和翻译的质量也有大幅提高。

This work is Taschen's 25th anniversary - special edition! One of the most esteemed abstract expressionists and greatest painters of the 20th century - Mark Rothko belongs to the generation of American artists who completely revolutionized the essence of abstract painting. His stylistic evolution, from a figurative visual repertoire to an abstract style rooted in the active relationship of the observer to the painting, embodied the radical vision of a renaissance in painting. Rothko characterized this relationship as 'a consummated experience between picture and onlooker'. His colour formations indeed draw the observer into a space filled with an inner light. Rothko always resisted attempts to interpret his paintings. He was mainly concerned with the viewer's experience, the merging of work and recipient beyond verbal comprehension. Rothko was an intellectual, a thinker, a highly educated man. He loved music and literature and was very involved in philosophy, especially in the works of Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche and of ancient Greek philosophy and mythology. Rothko was a protagonist within the movement of American painters who became known as the Abstract Expressionists. First formed in New York City during the inter-war years, this group was also called the New York School. In all the history of art, they became the first American artists to receive international recognition as a significant movement. Many among them, including Rothko, have become legendary figures.

纪录片《Finding Vivian Maier》定于9月份在多伦多国际电影节期间首映。影片揭示她的双面人生：生前才华横溢，却默默无闻做了40年保姆，去世后留下10万多张芝加哥街景和街头人像底片，2007年在一场拍卖会上被电影制片人John Maloof拍得后重见天日，她遂被摄影界公认为是20世纪最伟大的摄影师之一。

马蒂斯毕业追求一种均衡的、纯粹的、宁静的艺术。流畅的线条、稀薄明亮的色彩、对透视法则的反抗，等等，体现了他独特的绘画风格。书中选取的《画家笔记》、《论艺术》、《论色彩》等多篇论文，是马蒂斯绘画实践的结晶，它从不同侧面阐明了画家独到的创作思想和鲜明的美学观点。有两种描绘事物的方法：一种是粗略地表达事物，另一种是借助精巧制作的写生稿来表达事物。

在这本《看名画的眼睛1》中，作者选择的15幅名画都是从文艺复兴到近代西方美术史的代表之作，在介绍画作本身含义及画家生平的同时，还力求把产生这些伟大杰作的西洋文化历史背景阐述出来，以此帮助人们从多个角度加深对这些优秀作品的理解和鉴赏。图文并茂的形式也让读者能更细致地观察这些画作的细微之处，仿佛就站在图画面前，亲眼品鉴传世佳作的无穷魅力。

Michelangelo between earthly passions and fear of God

During the Renaissance, several great homosexual artists—from Leonardo da Vinci and Botticelli to Michelangelo and Raphael—transformed the history of art , striving for ever closer imitation of nature while shaping it to their tastes. In their art ambiguous beings were born, half man, half woman; female breasts were planted on male busts and a young man's gaze peeped out beneath the eyelids of a Madonna.

From his earliest youth Michelangelo transformed personal torment into exquisite creativity —attempting to reconcile the apparently conflicting forces that inhabited him: his earthly passions and his fear of God . Hence the peerless monuments to beauty, celestial and infernal alike, that Michelangelo raised to the glory of God. His predecessors aspired to Heaven through faith alone; Michelangelo sought absolution through the contemplative exaltation of beauty—even on the ceiling of a papal chapel: the Sistine. This exposed him to a chorus of derision from prudish critics, who accused him of exhibiting paganism in a place of religion, and who clothed his immodest Titans in painted "breeches".

It was Michelangelo's curse to remain a colossus outside and apart from his time . It is the birthright of the comet to inspire fear and awe in the spectator; but the spectacle of such glory can sear the tender eye.

This illustrated work takes a look at the wonderful world of post-impressionism through the eyes of Manet (1832-1883), painter and graphic artist.

This title is a Taschen 25 - Special edition! This title focuses on one of the Germany's greatest Renaissance artist. Though most famous for his engravings, Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) was also a master painter and draftsman whose work exemplifies the spirit of German art. Durer's importance in the German High Renaissance was such that he can be considered to embody the movement entirely. His visits to Italy (where he studied most notably with Giovanni Bellini) had a profound effect on his artistic development and enabled him to combine both German and Italian influences in his work. In his later life, Durer's passion for knowledge and progress led him to research and write on the subjects of art theory and mathematics, making him not only the greatest Northern European artist of his time, but also one of its leading thinkers. This overview of Durer's entire oeuvre - covering his oil, tempera, and watercolor paintings, copper and wood engravings, and his drawings and sketches - is the perfect introduction to his work. 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.

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.

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.

A groundbreaking work, this catalog accompanies the largest exhibition ever realized on Damien Hirst, surveying the oeuvres of the highly acclaimed British artist. Published on the occasion of Relics, Hirst's first retrospective exhibition in Doha, Qatar, this richly illustrated book offers a different perspective on the work of one of the best-known artists working today. Tracing Hirst's career from his emergence on the art scene in the Young British Artists movement to his present status as one of the most controversial and highly regarded artists of his generation, this volume offers a complete overview on his wide-ranging practice, which includes installation, painting, sculpture, and drawing and challenges the boundaries between art, science, and popular culture. The catalog gathers over one hundred works, combining historic oeuvres with more recent projects: from The Kingdom to The History of Pain, from Pharmacy to For the Love of God, to the spot, spin, and butterfly paintings.With an essay by Francesco Bonami, an interview with the artist by Nicholas Serota, director of the Tate Britain, and essays by the Qatari writer Sophia Al Maria and the Pakistani writer Mohsin Hamid, the volume offers an original point of view on Hirst's oeuvre, whose works have become collective icons of our civilization.

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.