The Story of Art

Sir Ernst Gombrich, C.B.E., was, until 1976, Director of the Warburg Institute and Professor of the History of the classical Tradition of the University of London. He has been Slade Professor of Fine Art at both Oxford and Cambridge, Professor of the History of Art at University College, London, Mellon Lecturer at the National Gallery, Washington, Visiting Professor at Harvard, Wrightsman Lecturer at the Institute of Fine Art, New York, and Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell, and has taught at many other universities and institutions. He has been elected to the membership of many learned societies and has received numerous decorations, honorary degrees and prized, including the Praemium Erasmianum of the 1975. His publications include Art and Illusion, Meditations on a Hobby Horse, Norm and Form, Symboli Images and The Heritage of Appelles.

出版者:Phaidon Press

作者:Ernst Hans J. Gombrich

页数:512

出版时间:1979. 13th edition

价格:$5.50

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780714818207

图书标签:艺术艺术史论艺术史ARTernstgombrichGombrich经典文化

The Story of Art is a unique book. One of the reasons why it has been so successful, and so widely admired, is the unsurpassed clarity and vividness with which the author speaks of artistic creation. By clearly showing how every artist builds upon, or sometimes reacts against, the achievements of his predecessors, Professor Gombrich makes us responsive to the values of bygone civilizations embodied in individual works of art, without having to resort to generalizations.

The author's theme is the entire history of artistic creation: the first stirrings in cave and rock paintings: the magical art of the 'primitive' tribes; the old civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome; the Christian arts of the Middle Ages; the Renaissance and the immortal masterpieces created in Italy, the Netherlands and Germany; the splendor of the Baroque and the golden age of Dutch painting; the Rococo; the Age of Reason, which gave birth to the glories of English painting; the 'perpetual revolution' in the nineteenth century and the rise if Impressionism, Expressionism, Cubism and Abstract Art: and in a penetrating last chapter the manifold experiments of our own time. Indian, Chinese, Japanese and Pre-Columbian art of the Americas also form part of the story. The narrative thread running through this book takes the reader up to the present day.

The book maintains a harmonious balance between text and illustrations: the 398 reproductions include many masterpieces. The integration of word and image is made fully effective by the fine quality of reproduction. The tremendous value put on this great book throughout the world is shown by the fact that is has been translated into seventeen languages.

An important new feature of this thirteenth edition is the chronological charts, which are intended to facilitate comparison of the time intervals covered by the periods and styles discussed in the book. The bibliography has also been expanded and updated, and the number of color plates almost trebled.

读后感

比较了李春的《西方美术史》教程和德比奇等人著的《西方艺术史》，就是贡布里希给我的收获最大。也难怪会有出到十六版，要不是他在1995年过世，我们还会看到他最新的补记呢。 李春的是典型美院式的教材，用马克思主义的唯物史观一一分析了艺术流派和艺术家产生的社会历史条件，...  

《艺术的故事》是一个流传了五十多年的老故事。贡布里希开始讲述这些故事的时候才25岁，他本想把这本书写给“刚刚独自发现了这个艺术世界的少年读者”，没想到这本书甫一出版，就被当作大学的教科书。在它出版五十年多后，被翻译成34种文字，在全球销售了700万册，至今仍被...  

爱好美丽的题材也爱好平淡的。 首先理解手法，然后才是感情。 逼真可美，粗略也可美。 不要随意指责画家画得不正确。 摒弃陋习和偏见，接受新画法。 艺术创作都有特定场合和目的。 美和观念曾经不是艺术家的考虑。 而是努力地追求合适的平衡。 有一颗赤子之心，捕捉每个暗示，...  

用户评价

无论是语言，评价，态度，思路，都是非常非常值得一读再读的介绍艺术史的书！但最后两张Contemporary Art实在写得有些混乱，论证也非之前明确缜密，也怪当代艺术的发展本来就分支众多又互相影响。

一本不错的世界艺术史入门书。诚然gombrich关于非西方艺术和现代艺术的看法有失偏颇，但是他对于自然主义的探讨是很有价值的。

无论是语言，评价，态度，思路，都是非常非常值得一读再读的介绍艺术史的书！但最后两张Contemporary Art实在写得有些混乱，论证也非之前明确缜密，也怪当代艺术的发展本来就分支众多又互相影响。

深入浅出 梳理了自埃及开始到20世纪上半叶艺术的发展 着眼于每个时代艺术的任务和艺术家们所力图解决的问题

无论是语言，评价，态度，思路，都是非常非常值得一读再读的介绍艺术史的书！但最后两张Contemporary Art实在写得有些混乱，论证也非之前明确缜密，也怪当代艺术的发展本来就分支众多又互相影响。