The Power of Art

Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University in New York. His award-winning books include The American Future: A History; Rough Crossings; The Power of Art; The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age; Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution; Dead Certainties (Unwarranted Speculations); Landscape and Memory; Rembrandt's Eyes; and the History of Britain trilogy. He has written and presented forty television documentary films for the BBC, PBS, and The History Channel—including the Emmy-winning Power of Art—on subjects that range from John Donne to Tolstoy.

出版者:Ecco

作者:Simon Schama

页数:448

出版时间:2006-11-7

价格:USD 55.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780061176104

图书标签:艺术SimonSchamaBBC英国art历史Simon_Schama英文版

"Great art has dreadful manners," Simon Schama observes wryly at the start of his epic and explosive exploration of the power, and whole point, of art. "The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are polite things; visions that soothe, charm and beguile, but actually they are thugs. Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed in short order to re-arrange your sense of reality. . . ."

With the same disarming force, The Power of Art propels us on an eye-opening, breathtaking odyssey, zooming in on eight extraordinary masterpieces, from Caravaggio's David and Goliath to Picasso's Guernica. Jolting us far from the comfort zone of the hushed art gallery, Schama closes in on intense make-or-break turning points in the lives of eight great artists who, under extreme stress, created something unprecedented, altering the course of art forever.

The embattled heroes—Caravaggio, Bernini, Rembrandt, David, Turner, Van Gogh, Picasso and Rothko—each in his own resolute way, faced crisis with steadfast defiance, pitting passion and conviction against scorn and short-sightedness. The masterpieces they created challenged convention, shattered complacency, shifted awareness and changed the way we look at the world.

With vivid storytelling and powerfully evocative descriptive passages, Schama explores the dynamic personalities of the artists and the spirit of the times they lived through, capturing the flamboyant theatre of bourgeois life in Amsterdam, the passion and paranoia of Revolutionary Paris, and the carnage and pathos of Civil War Spain.

Most compelling of all, The Power of Art traces the extraordinary evolution of eight "eye-popping" world-class works of art. Created in a bolt of illumination, such works "tell us something about how the world is, how it is to be inside our skins, that no more prosaic source of wisdom can deliver. And when they do that, they answer, irrefutably and majestically, the nagging question of every reluctant art-conscript . . . 'OK, OK, but what's art really for?'"

读后感

总体还行，印刷色彩细节还是可以的，就是有点反光。边看边用小日历记一下每一章的简单感受几个字，最后发现和人家的封面风格还挺配呢，都红红，留存。 卡拉瓦乔和贝尼尼的两章最精彩，文字有力也比较流畅。当然首先是人家的作品有力量。 梵高和毕加索的也还行。觉得伦勃朗和透...  

在读ing，6折买到，16开，纸张和图片都不错，总体性价比可以。 和纪录片并不完全相同，书的内容、分析应该是更为详细。 但看到错字错句时还是如眼中进沙： 第26页：“他才不会描绘那种喜剧式的吵吵闹闹的人群，才目及他刻画很少几个人物，将其画得如真人大小......” ‘第78页...  

特别喜欢梵高的话，短而粗的斑纹，非常的具有冲击力而且直白，鲜活的就像刚刚被画家创作出来一样，他画笔下肮脏的指甲、花香、头发和皮肤清晰可感的触感，都在让我们感受到梵高是在用绘画感触生命，用充满生命力的饱满情绪将它点亮，那瞬间的光亮便是永恒  

《艺术的力量》里,说的是八位艺术大家的艺术生涯，也许，这本书内容叫艺术剪影，会更为确切些吧。 这里先给想读的人打下预防针。常言近朱者赤，近墨者黑。若我们以庸常世俗的读书眼光，去粗看这本书，乱评这八个人，很可能，就愧对这八大仙人，不小心看走眼这本书。嗨，那可...  

特别喜欢梵高的话，短而粗的斑纹，非常的具有冲击力而且直白，鲜活的就像刚刚被画家创作出来一样，他画笔下肮脏的指甲、花香、头发和皮肤清晰可感的触感，都在让我们感受到梵高是在用绘画感触生命，用充满生命力的饱满情绪将它点亮，那瞬间的光亮便是永恒  

用户评价

某些地方Simon Schama的看法是有偏颇的,然而既然艺术的成就在于观点和角度,那么艺术评论就是关于观点之观点,关于角度之角度, 无法评论正确与否. 就表达技巧和感染力而言, 算是Simon Schama数十年经验的完美表现鸟

某些地方Simon Schama的看法是有偏颇的,然而既然艺术的成就在于观点和角度,那么艺术评论就是关于观点之观点,关于角度之角度, 无法评论正确与否. 就表达技巧和感染力而言, 算是Simon Schama数十年经验的完美表现鸟

我很少推荐课本，但确实不错。

某些地方Simon Schama的看法是有偏颇的,然而既然艺术的成就在于观点和角度,那么艺术评论就是关于观点之观点,关于角度之角度, 无法评论正确与否. 就表达技巧和感染力而言, 算是Simon Schama数十年经验的完美表现鸟

某些地方Simon Schama的看法是有偏颇的,然而既然艺术的成就在于观点和角度,那么艺术评论就是关于观点之观点,关于角度之角度, 无法评论正确与否. 就表达技巧和感染力而言, 算是Simon Schama数十年经验的完美表现鸟