The first book highlighting the historical roots and contemporary implications of the silhouette as an American art form Before the advent of photography in 1839, Americans were consumed by the fashion for silhouette portraits. Economical in every sense, the small, stark profiles cost far less than oil paintings and could be made in minutes. Black Out, the first major publication to focus on the development of silhouettes, gathers leading experts to shed light on the surprisingly complex historical, political, and social underpinnings of this ostensibly simple art form. In its examination of portraits by acclaimed silhouettists, such as Auguste Edouart and William Bache, this richly illustrated volume explores likenesses of everyone from presidents and celebrities to everyday citizens and enslaved people. Ultimately, the book reveals how silhouettes registered the paradoxes of the unstable young nation, roiling with tensions over slavery and political independence. Primarily tracing the rise of the silhouette in the decades leading up to the Civil War, Black Out also considers the ubiquity of the genre today, particularly in contemporary art. Using silhouettes to address such themes as race, identity, and the notion of the digital self, the four featured living artists--Kara Walker, Kristi Malakoff, Kumi Yamashita, and Camille Utterback--all take the silhouette to unique and fascinating new heights. Presenting the distinctly American story behind silhouettes, Black Out vividly delves into the historical roots and contemporary interpretations of this evocative, ever popular form of portraiture. Published in association with the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC

This long awaited second publication by the highly recognized film actor and artist/poet, Viggo Mortensen melds his acutely sensitive ability to intertwine words, paintings and photography into one lyrical conceptual landscape. Working like a personal diary, SignLanguage, takes us on a visual journey into the soul of Mortensen's creative forces. His diary-based photographs, taken while filming 'The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Rings' become dream-like landscapes shrouded in mystery and suspense while his multi-layered paintings entwine themselves around stanzas of poetry. The melding of all three forces allows the reader to become acutely aware of the details surrounding the artists existence, a multiple of split-second images burned into the mind of a thousand different places. SignLanguage exquisitely features extensive color and black and white reproductions of both his photographic works and his intensely personal collage based paintings, partly intertwined in an informative essay by international critic and poet, Kevin Power. Special highlights also include unique photographs by Mortensen while on location during the filming of 'The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring'.

《巨匠素描大系:克里姆特》内容简介：古斯塔夫·克里姆特1862年7月14日生于奥地利维也纳市郊的包伽登，父亲是来自波西米亚农庄的金饰雕刻师，母亲则一生喜欢歌唱却未得到登台演出的机会。家境贫寒的克里姆特从小就显露出绘画的天赋，而且对金饰技艺耳濡目染。14岁时，他以优异的成绩考入维也纳的两所公立美术学校之一——奥地利艺术工艺博物馆附属工艺学校，从此开始了其绚丽多姿而波澜迭起的艺术生涯。

《克里姆特速写全集》是大师杰出的创造才能，赋予素描以各种美的形式，“有多少种探求幸福的方式，就有多少种类型的美。”他们为后人开启了一扇扇通向素描艺术高峰的大门，人们深知，沿着大师的足迹就有可能进入大师们的创造天地，从而受到启迪。会让读者充分领略大师素描的精彩魅力。

This volume, with more than 400 reproductions, will be the most comprehensive publication to date on Lucian Freud, covering a span of seventy years and including many works not previously reproduced. The result is a corpus of great works that reveal him to be the premier heir today of Rembrandt, Courbet, and Cézanne. The book includes not only Freud’s paintings but also his sketches, woodcuts, and powerful etchings. While the bulk of his paintings are female nudes, his cityscapes, plant studies, and interiors, executed in his distinctive muted palette and visible brushwork, are all included. Freud, who has lived in London ever since his family left Berlin in 1933 when he was ten, has achieved preeminence through his ruthless perception of the human form. His importance has long been recognized in England, but his present super-celebrity status dates from a retrospective at the Hirshhorn in Washington, D.C., in 1987. William Feaver, painter and for many years art critic for The Observer, provides a unique account of Freud’s preoccupations and achievement. Startling, moving, profoundly entertaining, the book lives up to Freud’s advice to students when getting them to paint self-portraits: “To try and make it the most revealing, telling, and believable object. Something really shameless, you know.”

Known for his spectacular pyrotechnic displays, Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang creates his most ambitious project yet: Sky Ladder, a visionary, explosive event that he pulls off in his hometown in China after 20 years of failed attempts.

★内容介绍： 对科克托来说，毕加索“有一种魅力……（他）有奇迹做伴，挑起微不足道的东西……家具、动物和人就像爱人的躯体那样交缠在一起”。科克托带领毕加索走进了戏剧界，使他重新培养起对造型的兴趣，与他一起走在“恢复秩序”和恢复传统价值观运动和回归——这是20世纪20年代一项决定性的事实——的前列，科克托将其视作一生的荣耀。《遇见毕加索》展现了科克托与同时代的创作者在艺术上的契合，毕加索对他决定性的影响，他与萨蒂、阿波利奈尔等大师的联系——科克托是他们的同路人，有时也是他们的发现者。这就是本书讲述的内容。 ★编辑推荐： 法国著名作家让•科克托又一部重要著作《遇见毕加索》的中文版面世。科克托是瘾君子、双性恋者，是享誉文坛的才子，是集作家、诗人、编剧、导演、演员、设计师于一身的变色龙。与其作者一样，《遇见毕加索》堪称一部变色龙式的作品，集格言、回忆、诗歌于一体。科克托与毕加索过从甚密，得以用立体主义绘画般诡谲另类的方式呈现这位大师，在其他传记作者与评论者那里实难得见：被毕加索黑色的眼睛吞噬的世界，从他的手上出来，被随意摆弄，饱受折磨。在科克托笔下，萨蒂、阿波利奈尔等艺术界响当当的人物也纷纷露面，在剧院、画廊、街头，抽烟、闲逛、思考。打开这本书，就能和科克托一起回到毕加索的时代，一睹那个活色生香的世界。《遇见毕加索》中不仅有科克托的妙语连珠，更有毕加索的珍贵画作，装帧精美别致，不论从内容还是形式来看，本书都是值得珍藏的艺术品。 ★名人推荐： “这些现在看来显得如此突兀、简练甚至尖锐的文论，或许正代表了战后批评领域所留存的最具召唤性的事物……这些文论的作者不单是伟大的创造者，更是在视觉、听觉甚至模仿方面有着特殊天赋的杰出见证人。”——安德烈•费尔米热尔，法国艺术评论家、历史学家 “让•科克托从来都很清楚，‘在所有时期，艺术总会引起误解’。而这‘艺术’，当然是指波德莱尔所说的‘最新表达’，而非泛指。也正因如此，从‘遇见毕加索’时起，让•科克托就笃定地认为，自己理应担起毕加索的艺术与时代、社会乃至大众的‘中间人’重任。事实证明，他做到了。”——赵松，作家、诗人、《抚顺故事集》《积木书》的作者

本收录了著名诗人里尔克论画家的两篇杰作。《沃尔普斯维德画派》对于人们认识沃尔普斯维德画派的艺术特点和意义起了重要的作用。时至今日，它仍然是人们了解沃尔普斯维德画派不可多得的作品。里尔克关于罗丹的散文，也像罗丹的艺术一样，成了艺术史和文学史上的瑰宝，读者不仅可以从中认识罗丹和他的艺术，也可以认识里尔克作为散文作家的风采。

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。

In this book, Claire Reddleman introduces her theoretical innovation "cartographic abstraction" - a material modality of thought and experience that is produced through cartographic techniques of depiction. Reddleman closely engages with selected artworks (by contemporary artists such as Joyce Kozloff, Layla Curtis, and Bill Fontana) and theories in each chapter. Reconfiguring the Foucauldian underpinning of critical cartography towards a materialist theory of abstraction, cartographic viewpoints are theorised as concrete abstractions. This research is positioned at the intersection of art theory, critical cartography and materialist philosophy.

Newly available in paperback, this critically acclaimed book addresses important questions about Bacon's painting practice and sheds new light on his life and work. With the aid of over 250 source images and documents, it reveals how photography, film, mass-media imagery and other sources informed Bacon's painting and, in particular, how lens-based images helped to trigger the most significant turning-point in his stylistic development. The books analysis of elements of Bacon's biography and psychology leads to some startling and original insights into the man and the unique iconography of his art.

- 编辑推荐 - •从格罗托夫斯基到全息影像，现场艺术都发生了什么？ •本书理论密致，例证丰富，直抵现场艺术内核。 •如果您对现场艺术，尤其是表演艺术感兴趣，请一定不要错过这部条分缕析的前沿佳作。 - 名人推荐 - 此书涉及多学科，又不流于浅尝辄止，为关心相关问题的理论学者和艺术家、艺术管理者、策展人提供了一定的理解基础和信息资源。——朱青生 该书虽是理论著作，但密切联系实践，并不是纯粹抽象的理论探讨，所以很多基于理论分析而得出的美学结论，对于艺术实践者更加具有意义。——付晓东 - 内容简介 - 本书试图通过现象学方法对当代艺术中的现场性进行一次（理论意义上的而非实践或艺术史意义上的）全面考察。也就是说，通过考察当代艺术，尤其是现场艺术中的肉身化和非肉身化问题，给现场艺术一个现象学式的、表演性的定义，在这些理论推证的基础上，为相应领域的实践者提供一种相当个人化的实践方法。

Rudolf Arnheim has been known, since the publication of his groundbreaking "Art and Visual Perception" in 1974, as an authority on the psychological interpretation of the visual arts. Two anniversary volumes celebrate the landmark anniversaries of his works in 2009. In "The Power of the Center", Arnheim uses a wealth of examples to consider the factors that determine the overall organization of visual form in works of painting, sculpture, and architecture. "The Dynamics of Architectural Form" explores the unexpected perceptual consequences of architecture with Arnheim's customary clarity and precision.

这是一部有关图画再现心理学研究的论文集，引人注目而发人深省，是作者另一部具有广泛影响的著作《艺术与错觉》的有益补充。《通过艺术的视觉发现》介绍了透视问题；关于动作、表现、手势和运动的再现问题，关于视觉图像在信息交流中的地位问题，关于再现中的真实性标准问题，贡布里希教授将一位艺术史家的洞察力与知觉心理学家严谨的研究方法紧密结合。 长久以来，《艺术与错觉》不但启发了艺术专业学生，也对科学家颇有启迪。在这部补充论文集中，作者仍旧以其清晰而热忱延续着艺术史与科学的对话。

These essays on the pychology of pictorial representation form a companion volume to the author's influential "Art and Illusion". Writing on the central problems of perspective, on visual discoveries in art, on the representation of movement, expression, gesture and action, on the role of visual images in communication, on standards of truth in representation, Professor Gombrich combines the insights of the art historian with the rigorous approach of the experimental psychologist. In these complementary essays the fruitful dialogue between art history and science is continued, with the author's characteristic wisdom, enthusiasm and clarity.

Stimulating, thought-provoking guide shows how to discover a rich new design source in the abstractions inherent in natural forms. Lines of growth and structure, water and liquid forms, weather and atmospheric patterns, luminosity, earth colors, many other elements are shown to be wellsprings of creative abstraction. Over 370 photographs, scientific illustrations, diagrams and reproductions of works by the masters. Bibliography.

For thirty-five years Visual Thinking has been the gold standard for art educators, psychologists, and general readers alike. In this seminal work, Arnheim, author of "The Dynamics of Architectural Form", "Film as Art", "Toward a Psychology of Art", and "Art and Visual Perception", asserts that all thinking (not just thinking related to art) is basically perceptual in nature, and that the ancient dichotomy between seeing and thinking, between perceiving and reasoning, is false and misleading. This is an indispensable tool for students and for those interested in the arts.