In 1968, Josef Koudelka was a thirty-year-old acclaimed theater photographer who had never photographed a news event. That all changed on the night of August 21, when Warsaw Pact tanks invaded the city of Prague, ending the short-lived political liberalization of Czechoslovakia that came to be known as the Prague Spring. Koudelka had returned home the day before from photographing gypsies in Romania. In the midst of the turmoil of the Soviet-led invasion, he took a series of photographs that were miraculously smuggled out of the country. A year after they reached New York, Magnum Photos distributed the images, credited to an unknown Czech photographer to avoid reprisals. The intensity and significance of the images earned the still-anonymous photographer the Robert Capa Award. Sixteen years would pass before Koudelka could safely acknowledge authorship.
Forty years after the invasion, this impressive monograph features nearly 250 of these searing images—most of them published here for the first time—personally selected by Koudelka from his extensive archive. Though they document a specific historical event, their transformative quality still resonates. A compelling introduction and chronology by three Czech writers provides a nuanced examination of the invasion.

All of Durer's works in three mediums are reproduced in this edition. Among them are his most famous works, "Knight, Death and Devil; Melencolia I; "and" St. Jerome in His Study." Also included are portraits of his contemporaries, including Erasmus of Rotterdam and Frederick the Wise, as well as six engravings formerly attributed to Durer.

'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.

This major, long out-of-print survey, widely regarded as the definitive overview of Mapplethorpe's black-and-white photography, is once again available in a new, updated edition. It presents a comprehensive selection of Mapplethorpe's nudes, portraits, self-portraits, floral still lifes and other works, including his best known and most controversial images. Mapplethorpe's choices were both innovative and bold, and his work has continued to resonate since his early death in 1989. His cutting-edge use of homoerotic and other challenging themes has become embedded in our culture, with pervasive echoes not only in the work of other artists but in mainstream advertising as well.

Reprint edition of Robert Frank: The Americans, Scalo Publishers 1998.
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The Flemish artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525-1569) is considered the first Western landscape and genre painter. He has been especially beloved through the centuries for his paintings of peasant scenes. With an illuminating text by Manfred Sellink, this superb monograph, now available at a new affordable price, reprints the first biography of Bruegel, in facsimile and translation, written by Karel van Mander around 1604. This stunning book reproduces all 40 paintings and 70 drawings attributed to Bruegel in lush full color, with numerous close-up details, as well as his 75 prints.

In 1997 Belgian artist Francis Alys (b. 1959) created a performance work called "The Loop for InSITE", a biennial group exhibition held in Tijuana, Mexico. Addressing the idea of international borders and the contemporary ease/unease of global travel, Alys' contribution was a journey that started in Tijuana and ended in the nearby border town of San Diego - never, however, crossing the Mexico-U.S. border. The artist instead took the long way, skirting the Pacific rim from Mexico to Panama, Sydney, Bangkok, Vancouver, Los Angeles and finally San Diego. The Loop took Alys one month and five days rather a few minutes - an absurd journey that called attention to Mexico and America's frought attitudes to their shared border. Combining humour, sensitivity and an extremely personal connection to the people and places where he works, Francis Alys often employs the basic human activity of walking to create performances, photo documentation, videos, slide projections and paintings. The artist first came to international attention with a performance work called "Narcotourism" ('NowHere', Lousiana Museum, 1996) in which he walked the city of Copenhagen over the course of seven days, each day under the influence of a different drug. Alys here underlined the wholly personal experience of artmaking, as well as the hyperreal and unnatural experience of contemporary tourism, reducing his travels to completely interiorized, personal 'trips'. A very independent artist belonging to no particular group, Alys' is a unique and truly international voice in today's global art world.

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.

安塞尔姆•基弗（ANSELM KIEFER，1945— ）是现今最受好评，也是最有影响力的艺术家之一，在塑造战后德国乃至全球艺术景观方面起到了重要作用。
基弗的艺术视域包括哲学、历史、文学、政治和紧迫的道德问题——其范围从探讨德国身份认同问题的私人书籍到大型的公共雕塑装置艺术。在观念上，基弗鼓励观众挑战被普遍接受的关于战争、身份、宗教、道德、记忆和历史的叙述。而在视觉上，他的艺术充满一种史诗的悲怆感。他的画作提升了物理规整度，融入了一些有机物如麦秸、沙子和铅，展现出自然元素的特性。基弗的一贯主题包括大地、星星、建筑以及能够让人想起毁灭、变形和重生主题的炼金符号象征。

弗朗西斯•培根（FRANCIS BACON，1909—1992）的艺术——他关于尖叫的人物和扭曲变形的人体的戏剧化图像——似乎体现了“二战”后人类体验到的黑暗与绝望。
培根的这些画集中象征了现代人类生存状况中内在的焦虑，并且运用丰富的示意技巧暗中指涉了提香、委拉斯克斯、伦勃朗等前辈大师。尽管作为一个肖像画家出名——主要是画一些朋友，如卢西安•弗洛伊德和培根后来迁入的伦敦苏荷区波西米亚艺术圈的成员——培根的艺术视域跨越了不同的时空。事实上，他的主题包括了风景、神话、诗歌、电影和他自己戏剧化的生活。凭借高超的艺术造诣，培根将这些主题整合进富有暗示性而又晦涩难懂的复杂图像中。

安迪•沃霍尔（ANDY WARHOL，1928—1987）对艺术界产生了重要的影响，他预示着我们对大众传媒形象的视觉感知会发生根本性的转变。在对名望和财富的追求中，沃霍尔把自己也塑造成一个大众传媒的超级明星。本书对沃霍尔的整个艺术生涯作出了一个全面的评述，主要探讨了他从20世纪50年代的商业插画家为创作起点，到60年代的波普明星，从70年代上流社会的肖像画画家，到最后的十年间，把艺术创新和创作中令人惊叹且精妙绝伦的多种创作技巧加以融会贯通的创作历程。通过研究沃霍尔的工作室—著名的“工厂”的发展变化，以及他在电影和大众传媒“偶发艺术”领域的各种尝试，旨在对这位有划时代意义的艺术家的生活和创作进行一个完整的介绍。

作为20 世纪杰出的美国雕塑家，大卫•史密斯（DAVID SMITH，1906—1965）是强有力的革新者。通过在艺术家工作室中引入工业生产中使用的焊接技术和诸如钢铁等材料，他彻底改变了媒介的可能性。因此，史密斯能够把金属处理成极富想象力和多样化的构图，确确实实地用金属“在空间中画画”。
史密斯制作的分层平面和充分抛光或上漆的表面把抽象雕塑带到了新的高度，要知道雕塑在他之前还是一种具象的表现方法。史密斯深居简出，他把工作室和铸造间建在纽约州北部阿迪朗达克山脉的博尔顿渡口地区，周围的田野里满是他纪念碑式的建筑。尽管他主要被看做雕塑家，这本书还不可多得地介绍了史密斯丰富的素描、速写、文章和摄影照片。

美国艺术家布莱斯•马登（BRICE MARDEN，1938— ）对今天的绘画影响深远。在他的艺术生涯中，艺术界从复兴具象绘画到走出工作室，发生了急剧变化，但是马登在处理光、空间和表面时仍然毫不动摇地坚持现代主义的抽象原理。纵观马登在早期20 世纪60 年代和70 年代期间创作的单色油画，从巧妙地运用油画颜料和吸光的蜂蜡层层敷彩到受亚洲艺术和文化启发的主题，他的作品具有个人深度，融合了来自艺术史和文化方面的灵感。他处理的颜色细腻到位、引人共鸣，与其精湛非凡的素描技巧分不开，在处理颜色的过程中他对情感、观念和感知之间的互动关系进行了探索。

《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。

《聆听音乐(第5版)》主要结构分三部分，音乐元素、音乐史和美国通俗音乐。在讨论任何音乐概念的同时都结合具体作品分析，并有一目了然的图表作必要辅助。存在于每一章节中的“聆听指南”和“聆听训练”两个部分是本书最具特色的精华。分成41个短小的章节，便于学生阅读、学习和消化。在这个过程中，爵士乐现在占了两章，摇滚和叮盘巷各占一章。此外，开始的新部分预习每个历史时期，并把各时期的音乐和历史事件为学生做成了插图丰富的年表。在每个部分的结尾，你可以看到一个“音乐风格列表”，回顾每个时期的风格内部的音乐要素，并列举具有代表性的作曲家和主要体裁。《聆听音乐(第5版)》所有的列表都在第七章的结尾给予预告，在那里风格的概念被引入了。

The most exciting names in design and illustration today apply their talents to some of the most important and influential films of all time. This volume gathers highlights from designs commissioned by the Criterion Collection, featuring covers, supplemental art, and never-before-seen sketches and concept art plus a gallery of every Criterion cover since the collection's first laserdisc in 1984. From avant-garde experiments to big-budget blockbusters, cult favorites to the towering classics of world cinema, the depth and breadth of what film can be is on display in these striking images. Whether painstakingly faithful re-creations or bold re-imaginings, the stunningly diverse designs collected here offer new ways for cinephiles and design aficionados alike to engage with the world's greatest filmmakers.

No photographer is more closely associated with a city than Brassai (1899-1984) is with Paris. From the moment he moved there in 1924, he devoted his life and art to immortalizing his adopted city—capturing the street life by day, the cafés and the Seine by night. A friend of Picasso and Henry Miller, Brassai knew and photographed the leading figures of his day—Giacometti, Sartre, Dalí, Matisse, and Mann among them. His most famous portraits and cityscapes, collected in this volume, form a unique vision of life in pre- and post-war Europe.
The Photofile series brings together the best work of the world’s greatest photographers in an attractive format and at an affordable price. Handsome and collectable, the books are produced to the highest standards. Each volume contains some sixty full page reproductions, a critical introduction and a full bibliography. The series was awarded the first annual prize for distinguished photographic books by the International Center of Photography.

纪录片关于法国野兽派画家亨利-马蒂斯的色彩。发现他的画搭配萨第的钢琴配乐真是绝配。。。：）
The film, recording pictures gathered from all over the world for the London exhibition in 1968, traces the idyllic quality in Henri Matisse's work "When I started to paint I felt transported into a sort of paradise - starting to paint I felt gloriously free, quiet and alone". The paintings are shown chronologically, culminating the large paper cut-outs.
A film made, during a 1968 exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, of the paintings and painted paper cut-outs (gouaches découpées) of French artist, Henri Matisse (1869-1954). From the exhibition at the Hayward Gallery London. Directed by Lawrence Gowing and John Jones; with quotations from Matisse and music by Erik Satie. Photography Nic Knowland; Assistant Jim Dibling; Music by Erik Satie; Played by Aldo Ciccolini, Jean-Joel Barbier; Editor John Ralph; Production Manager Judith Marriott; Directed by Lawrence Gowing, John Jones. Produced by Allan King Associates for The Arts Council of Great Britain. Colour by Technicolor.