《论摄影》不仅是一本论述摄影者的经典著作，而且是一本论述广泛意义上的现代文化的经典著作。它不是一本专业著作，书中也没有多少摄影术语，尽管有志于摄影者，应人手一册。它的对象主要是知识分子、作家和文化人。
桑塔格深入探讨摄影的本质，包括摄影是不是艺术，摄影与绘画的相互影响，摄影与真实世界的关系，摄影的捕食性和侵略性。摄影表面上是反映现实，但实际上摄影影像自成一个世界，一个影像世界，企图取代真实世界。
对读者而言，这本书的丰富性和深刻性不在于桑塔格得出什么结论，而在于她的论述过程和解剖方法。这是一种抽丝剥茧的论述，一种冷静而锋利的解剖。精彩纷呈，使人目不暇接。桑塔格一向以庄严的文体著称，但她的挖苦和讽刺在这本著作中亦得到了充分的发挥。
《论摄影》出版于一九七七年，轰动一时，引起广泛的讨论，并荣获当年的全国图书批评界奖，至今仍被誉为“摄影界的《圣经》”。
本版配以60余幅世界摄影史上的珍贵照片，推出极具艺术品位与收藏价值的“插图珍藏本”，使《论摄影》真正成为图文并茂的文化经典。

超越时空的音乐通史，
60年来在世界各地不断再版的音乐史典籍
才、学、识兼备的大师巨著
作者将音乐置于“大文化”背景中，用独特的诠释性批评和富于感召力的文字考察了音乐如何参与、改变和塑造西方文化面貌的历史进程。此书被公认是美国音乐学走向成熟的里程碑著作。六十年来，该书不仅已成为音乐史学领域的大师级经典论著，而且也被证明对文化史研究作出了突出贡献。就单个学者所著的单卷本音乐通史而论，在体现史家的“才、学、识”方面堪与本书比肩的同类书寥寥无几。该书中译本亦获得国内翻译界一致好评。
在本书中，作者所展示的不是一个专门家细致周密的考据钩稽，而是一个不可多得的最高水平的综合家在把握时代精神脉搏上的独到功力，在全方位联系各种人文、艺术、精神现象时的雄才大略，在洞察音乐风格和理解音乐思维上的内行眼光，以及表述文风上的华美修辞。

作者一向主张对古代中国的研究要跨出传统的专业局限，从史学、考古、美术史、古地理学、思想理论等方面进行跨学科的整合，而此书正是他本人所做的一次最彻底的试验。本书利用考古学、人类学、历史学和神话学的各种材料，对中国文明的起源和它早期的特征作了精辟的阐述，可以看作是作者一生研究古代中国的综合性成果。近三十年来，先后有英、中、日三种文字的译本在世界各地流传。

徐复观所著的《中国艺术精神》，一个基本的意思，是说明庄子的虚、静、明的心，实际就是一个艺术心灵；艺术价值之根源，即在虚、静、明的心。简单来说，艺术要求美的对象的成立。
正是基于这一思路，徐复观在《中国艺术精神》正文十章中，仅在前两章着重从哲学上对以孔子为代表的儒家艺术精神和以庄子为代表的道家艺术精神进行阐发，凸显出只有以庄子为代表的道家艺术精神构成了中国艺术精神的主体；而在后八章则着重通过对汉以后的绘画与画论的解读，揭示以庄子为代表的道家艺术精神对中国古代绘画与画论演变的深刻影响。

在这个视觉震撼的节目中，着名的艺术评论家马修·科林斯带我们对艺术美的主题进行了深思熟虑的非凡探索。科林斯探索永恒的原则，解释了我们从皮耶罗·德拉·弗朗西斯卡，米开朗基罗，马格利特，高更和美国艺术家罗伯特·劳森伯格等人的作品中的美丽艺术所带来的愉悦。

本书作者高居翰是著名中国艺术史专家，美国加州伯克利大学荣休教授；黄晓、刘珊珊为北京清华大学建筑学院博士研究生。三人的“远程合作”造就了本书。
本书纪念的是一个业已逝去的世界。往昔的胜景不在，但幸由中国古代的那些伟大画家，借助他们的杰作，我们得以感受那些美好乐园的流风余韵。三位作者一起首次对中国绘画作为视学记录和美学再创造的功能做了探讨，该功能在书中的落实点——便是中国园林。

《中国艺术精神》共分十章，除第一章论上古音乐艺术之精神以外，其余九章均为论绘画艺术及其所蕴涵的中国艺术精神。书中颇多真知灼见，义理明晰，风骨超然。徐复观深入研究庄子讲的学道、体道及成道的境界，发现其与现代、近代西方思想家所讨论的美与艺术的情况颇多近似或相同，从而认定庄子的道正是中国的艺术精神。这对研究中国艺术精神具有开创性的作用。

Gang of Four
Episode 1 of 4
Duration: 1 hour
Art writer Waldemar Januszczak explores the revolutionary achievements of the Impressionists. In the first episode, Waldemar delves into the back stories of four of the most influential Impressionists - Pissarro, Monet, Renoir and Bazille - who together laid the foundations of the artistic movement. He finds out what social and cultural influences drove them to their style of painting, how they were united and how ultimately they challenged and changed art forever.
Waldemar journeys from the shores of the West Indies, to the progressive city of Paris to the suburbs of South London, where these four artists drew inspiration from the cities and towns in which they lived. Whether it be the infamous spot on the river Seine - La Grenouillere - where Monet and Renoir beautifully captured animated people, iridescent light and undulating water or the minimalist, non-sensationalised illustrations of Pissarro's coarse countryside paintings, Waldemar discovers how the Impressionists broke conventions by depicting every day encounters within the unpredictable and ever changing sights around them.
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Painting outdoors
Episode 2 of 4
Duration: 1 hour
Waldemar Januszczak continues his investigation of the Impressionists by taking us outdoors to their most famous locations. Although Impressionist pictures often look sunny and relaxed, achieving this peaceful air was hard work. Trudging through fog, wind and rain, across treacherous coastal rocks and knee-deep snow, Waldemar shows how the famous spontaneity of the Impressionists is thoroughly misleading.
This episode visits the French riverside locations that Monet loved to paint, and where Renoir captured the bonhomie of modern life. Waldemar also introduces a number of technical and practical developments of the age which completely revolutionised Impressionist painting - the invention of portable easels; the use of hog's hair in paint brushes; as well as the introduction of the railway through France. And a scientific demonstration in a Swedish snowdrift explains just how right the Impressionists were to paint brightly coloured shadows in their winter scenes, despite being accused of 'hallucinating' at the time.
Finally, Januszczak explains Cezanne's part in the Impressionist story from his dark and challenging early work to his first rural landscapes in France, and then his departure from Paris and separation from the Impressionist gang.
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Painting the People
Episode 3 of 4
Duration: 1 hour
Waldemar Januszczak continues his investigation of the Impressionists, focusing this time on the people they painted and in particular the subjects of Degas, Caillebotte and the often forgotten Impressionist women artists. The Impressionists are famous for painting landscape but they were just as determined to paint people.
Looking closely at one of Impressionism's finest painters, Edgar Degas, Waldemar reveals how he consistently challenged traditions and strove to record real life as it appeared in the city, from sculpting the contorted movements of horses in motion at the Longchamp race course in Paris to encapsulating extravagant 3D viewpoints of the ballet dancers at the Paris Opera.
Waldemar also uncovers the intoxicating haziness the pastel produced in Degas' work when visiting his supplier Pastels de Roche. He also reveals the unusual viewpoints and dramatic perspectives of Caillebotte's paintings from the Place de L'Europe and the rebellious and revolutionary art of Morisot, Bracquemond and Cassatt, three impressive female artists who were eagerly embraced by the progressive movement of Impressionism
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Final Flourish
Episode 4 of 4
Duration: 1 hour
This episode takes a closer look at the late years of Impressionism, using the last show these artists did together as a starting point.
Waldemar looks in considerable depth at the work of Georges Seurat, taking into consideration his academic training at the Beaux-Arts School in Paris and the artists that influenced him, such as Piero della Francesca and Puvis de Chavannes.
There is also an insight into the complex but fascinating world of optics and art, and the ways in which the Impressionists were using the new discoveries in light and eyesight to influence their work. A fascinating 'after-image' experiment brings to life the ways in which our own eyes see colour, both in its presence and its absence.
Van Gogh's time in Paris, a period very little is known about, is also covered, charting the incredible journey the artist made from his brown and dull canvases to the splendid colour and light that pervaded his work on the cusp of his departure for the South of France.
The film finishes with a revisiting of Monet and his later waterlily paintings in the Orangerie in Paris. Waldemar investigates how a bad case of cataracts was responsible for a seismic shift in his colour palette and his brushstrokes. Spending time with an ophthalmologist, he finds out how old age and a fairly common ailment of the eyes caused Impressionism to shift and become radical again at the turn of the century and into the 20th century