"The Story of Art", one of the best-known and best-loved books on art ever written, has been a world bestseller for over half a century. Professor Gombrich's clear and engaging text combines with hundreds of full-colour illustrations to trace the history of art in an unfolding narrative, from primitive cave paintings to controversial art works of the present day.
【作者简介】
Sir Ernst Gombrich's (1909-2001) standing in the world of art and his popularity with experts and a vast general readership alike remain unrivalled. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages and many titles have become classics. Ernst Gombrich was born in Vienna and came to England in 1936. He spent the larger part of his working life at the University of London's Warburg Institute, where he was Director from 1959 until his retirement in 1976. His 'retirement' saw the publication of numerous books, reviews, and articles, and the conferring of many international honors, including a knighthood and the Order of Merit. In 1994 the city of Frankfurt awarded him the Goethe Prize. Professor Gombrich's books are models of good art-historical writing, and reflect his deep and abiding concern with the standards and values of our cultural heritage.
【目录】
Introduction: On Art and Artists Strange Beginnings: Prehistoric and Primitive Peoples; Ancient America Art for Eternity: Egypt, Mesopotamia, Crete The Great Awakening: Greece, Seventh to Fifth Century BC The Realm of Beauty: Greece and the Greek World, Fourth Century BC to First Century AD World Conquerors: Romans, Buddhists, Jews and Christians, First to Fourth Century AD A Parting of Ways: Rome and Byzantium, Fifth to Thirteenth Century Looking Eastwards: Islam, China, Second to Thirteenth Century Western Art in the Melting Pot: Europe, Sixth to Eleventh Century The Church Militant: The Twelfth Century The Church Triumphant: The Thirteenth Century Courtiers and Burghers: The Fourteenth Century The Conquest of Reality: The Early Fifteenth Century Tradition and Innovation I: The Later Fifteenth Century in Italy Tradition and Innovation II: The Fifteenth Century in the North Harmony Attained: Tuscany and Rome, Early Sixteenth Century Light and Colour: Venice and Northern Italy, Early Sixteenth Century The New Learning Spreads: Germany and the Netherlands, Early Sixteenth Century A Crisis of Art: Europe, Later Sixteenth Century Vision and Visions: Catholic Europe, First Half of the Seventeenth Century The Mirror of Nature: Holland, Seventeenth Century Power and Glory I: Italy, Later Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Power and Glory II: France, Germany and Austria, Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries The Age of Reason: England and France, Eighteenth Century The Break in Tradition: England, America and France, Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries Permanent Revolution: The Nineteenth Century In Search of New Standards: The Late Nineteenth Century Experimental Art: The First Half of the Twentieth Century A Story without End: The Triumph of Modernism Another Turning of the Tide The Changing Past A Note on Art Books Chronological Charts Maps List of Illustrations by Location Index and Glossary Acknowledgments
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