【内容简介】
这是目前市面上
最薄、 最有体系、 最容易阅读的一本艺术史
从原始人的野牛到赫斯特的鲨鱼
从希腊罗马到中国日本
从古典主义到行为艺术
以艺术作品为点
以时代风格纵向分期
以国家地域横向对比
用点线交织出艺术发展史的网络
是最适合初学者建立艺术概念的入门艺术史
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人类社会从不缺少艺术。一如讲故事和歌唱，描绘、装饰也是人之天性，就像鸟儿筑巢般自然。在不同的社会和文化情境影响下，在不同的时代与地域，艺术的表现形式大相径庭。这些艺术作品的创作意图是什么？如今我们又该怎样去解读？为什么在某些历史年代，艺术得以繁荣，而在其他的时段则没有？某些艺术作品又为何如此重要？
本书开篇深刻的历史综述将艺术置于社会与文化演变的时代情境中来观照。从国家政权社会形成之前及至现在，这种社会与文化的变迁一直在全球各地延续。按照年代顺序，它逐一回溯了各个时期、各种流派的艺术演进。书中配以丰富的插图，遴选的代表作品浓缩了每个时代或艺术流变的显著特征，极具深度的评述触及了几乎所有艺术品类，从绘画、雕塑到观念艺术和行为艺术。它对史上重要艺术家的理念与作品都给以深入阐述与评价，揭示出艺术家们如何彼此影响以及其作品所蕴涵的意义。关于时代文化和各位艺术家的详尽大事记，让本书的历史情境视野更加清晰。
从用色、视觉隐喻到技法创新和传统的延续，本书对入选杰作从多重层面进行详尽分析与阐释，让读者对这些传世名作的完整意义达成前所未有的解读。读者将惊叹于印度莫卧儿王朝细密画的精妙复杂，将了解19世纪日本浮世绘的价值，将懂得修拉那幅非凡杰作《大碗岛周日午后》是基于色彩理论背后的科学依据，将明白毕加索的《阿维尼翁少女》在当年为何引起巨大震撼。
自最古老的史前时期雕塑和洞穴画开始，人类便求诸艺术以记录自己的创作冲动。今天，我们绘画、印刷和雕塑的欲望比以往任何时候都更强烈，这种内心的愿望在继续揭示我们是谁、我们如何生活。如果你爱好并希望更好地理解艺术，翻阅此书将是你的不二选择。
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【编辑推荐】
◎ 全球艺术博物馆馆长、艺术史学者、艺术评论家联手打造，均是最前沿的艺术研究成果；
◎ 编写体例充分考虑读者需求，网络化的信息架构、全面系统的内容梳理、精简易读的语言呈现，成就史上最得心应手的世界艺术史；
◎ 全球已有二十多种语言的译本，累计销售上百万册，是艺术史类图书的准经典。与市面上那些来源于教材的艺术史类图书不同，本书的编撰宗旨是提高普通读者的艺术鉴赏力。图片与设计在艺术史类图书中是最好的； ◎ 从作品欣赏入手，适合初学者，圈点作品细节，实用性强，一目了然；
◎ 同类型中价格最便宜，性价比最高；
◎ 超过1100幅高清图片，哑粉纸全彩印刷，完美呈现。
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【媒体推荐】
一部信息量充沛的新作，即将成为经典。
——《书商》（The Bookseller）
史蒂芬•法辛做了一项伟大的工作，这本厚实的读物是对世界艺术史的全面概述。
——《RA》杂志
你将跟随时间的脚步，开始盛大的艺术之旅。……本书是必不可少的一站式参考指南。
——《艺术家与插画师》（Artists & Illustrators）
对于正在研习艺术史课程的学生来说，这是一份完美的礼物。
——《星期日泰晤士报》（The Sunday Times）
一本超乎想象的好书！
——《东盎格鲁每日时报》（East Anglian Daily Times）

BBC“电视史上的里程碑”，当代艺术历史最具雄心壮志的纪录片拍摄工作，由著名艺术历史学家克拉克爵士担任编剧与主持，探讨西欧文明，而爵士更在本片中界定了人类文明发展中的几个重要阶段。《文明的轨迹》历时两年才拍摄完毕，剧组跨越13个国家，曾走访百多个城市拍摄，本纪录片首年播出时更被喻为电视史上的代表作。克拉克爵士引人入胜的对白，再加上欧洲地标动人画面，带领我们探索自罗马帝国沦亡至工业革命用其后的文明发展。这种通过艺术、音乐来呈现历史观点的做法，成为日后无数纪录片看齐并努力超越的基准。
"Kenneth Clark's sumptuous,magisterial,one-man servey of the achievements of bumanistic civilisation is a TV landmark" The daily mail
In 1966 BBC Television embarked on its most ambitious documentary series to date.The eminent art historian Lord Clark was commissioned to write and present an epic examination of Western Eyuopean culture,defining what he considered to be the crucial phases of its development.Civilisation:A personal View by Lord Clark would be more than two years in the making,with filming in over 100 locations across 13 countries.The lavish series was hailed as a masterpiece when it was first transmitted in 1969.
From the fall of the Roman Empire to the Industrial Revolution and beyond,Clark's compelling narrative is accompanied by breathtaking colour photography of Europe's grearest landmarks.This "history of ideas as illustrated by art and music'remains the benchmark for the numerous programmes it inpired.
特别收录 Special Feature
大卫·艾登堡禄爵士回忆《文明的轨迹》制作过程 Sir David Attenborough remembers the making of Civilisation
剧相馆 Photo gallery of behind-the-scenes stills

纪录片讲的是让5名中国老师在英国南部汉普郡的一所中学实施4周中国式教学试验的故事。
中国式教学的特点是严厉，时间长。中国学生在一些知名的国际考试中总是名列前茅。
但是，用中国的教学方法来教育英国的中学生可行吗？参加试验的老师和学生又是怎么想的呢？他们有什么体会？
首先，作为试验的一部分，中国老师接管了一个由50名学生组成的9年级的班。
这些学生在四个星期的时间里，要穿统一的校服，每天早上7点到校，在校时间长达12个小时，中间有两次吃饭休息时间。每周还要举行一次升中国国旗的仪式。
而课堂上主要以记笔记为主。同时，还要参加集体练习。学生们还要负责打扫教室等。

Twenty years after the original The Lovers' Guide exploded into the lives of the UK public, the ground-breaking guide is back with anot her no-holds-barred exploration of the pleasures of love-making.
To mark the anniversary of the series that has brought adult sex advice firmly into the mainstream, the latest instalment has been created using cutting edge 3D technology as the next stop in the sexual revolution. Here the audience is engaged with a never-before-seen sense of intimacy and massively richer viewpoint.
After selling 1.5 million copies and being distributed in 22 countries and in 13 languages over its colourful 20-year history, The Lovers' Guide 3D - Igniting Desire will debut in UK cinemas in January 2011 and be available to purchase on DVD and Blu-ray on February 7, 2011 in time for Valentine’s Day gifting.
Now bigger, better and bolder than ever before, The Lovers' Guide 3D - Igniting Desire features the voices of Gemma Bissix (Eastenders, Hollyoaks, Dancing on Ice) and Jeremy Edwards (Hollyoaks, Holby City) and will take audiences to an altogether new level of love-making enlightenment.

《艺术的故事》概括地叙述了从最早的洞窟绘画到当今的实验艺术的发展历程，以阐明艺术史是“各种传统不断迂回、不断改变的历史，每一件作品在这历史中都既回顾过去又导向未来。
继1997年三联版《艺术的故事》后，英国费顿出版社授权广西美术出版社独家出版，也是国内唯一合法授权的版本。

这部具有“交响乐式”结构的纪录片，是英国纪录片学派领袖格里尔逊亲自执导的唯一一部作品。影片反映了北海捕捞鲱鱼的渔民的日常生活。漂网渔船从灰雾蒙蒙的港湾驶向大海，渔网从颠簸摇曳的船上撒开，渔夫们紧张繁忙地劳作着，同汹涌的恶浪搏斗着，日复一日，年复一年……
影片当年在伦敦上映时，赢得了观众的欢迎和广泛的好评。本片的成功既在主题内容方面，也在艺术技巧方面。当时的英国电影被束缚在摄影棚内进行创作，这部在真实生活场景中摄制的影片，在制片方式上具有革命性意义。在艺术技巧方面，格里尔逊运用了由爱森斯坦和普多夫金发展的交响乐式的影片结构原则和强有力的剪辑手法，令本片富有诗情画意。

Though James Williamson had already made at least 122 one-shot films since 1897 (mostly comedies such as Washing the Sweep or actualities like Early Fashions on Brighton Pier, both 1898, Attack on a China Mission - Bluejackets to the Rescue (1900) was a quantum leap forward in style, content, technique and ambition.
In The Beginnings of the Cinema in England, historian John Barnes claims it had "the most fully developed narrative of any film made in England up to that time". While most dramatic films of the era consisted of one or two shots and single-figure casts, Williamson's film had four shots (including a reverse angle cut, showing the entrance to the mission from two different perspectives) and at least two dozen performers.
It was based on the Boxer Rebellion of the early months of 1900, with the secret 'Boxer' society attempting to expel of foreigners in general and Christian missionaries in particular from their native China. Williamson was following in the footsteps of Georges Méliès, whose eleven-scene dramatised documentary L'Affaire Dreyfus (1899) was very influential on British film-makers, many of whom made similar dramatisations of the events of the ongoing Boer War. But Williamson's film comfortably outstripped them in scale and ambition.
Though the Warwick Trading Company had distributed moving images of China that same year, there was no actual footage of the Boxer Rebellion. In order to meet perceived public demand, Williamson made his film in Hove at a derelict house called Ivy Lodge (which would also be the main location for Fire!, 1901). He went to considerable lengths to ensure that his film appeared to be authentic, kitting out the house with a bilingual Anglo-Chinese 'Mission Station' sign and drawing on his background as a chemist in order to fake gunshots and explosions.
The full film ran 230 feet, or roughly four minutes at contemporary projection speeds. Just under half of this footage survives, though thankfully it includes material from all four shots. Despite some obvious trims (the initial forcing of the gate is missing, and the wife's appeal on the balcony to the sailors must surely have lasted more than one second), enough remains to give a good account of what the original audience must have seen.
The premiere was held on 17 November 1900 at Hove Town Hall, and was such a success that the audience (fruitlessly) demanded a repeat screening there and then.

1. The Birth Of Rock (Blues-based Rock 1963-70)
Jimi Hendrix,The Rolling Stones,Cream ,The Who,Bob Dylan,The Beatles
2. White Light White Heat (Art Rock 1966-80)
Pink Floyd,The Velvet Underground,David Bowie
3. Blank Generation (Punk 1973-80)
The Sex Pistols,The Clash,Ramones,Television,Patti Smith,The Damned,Buzzcocks
4. Never Say Die (Heavy Metal 1970-91)
Black Sabbath,Deep Purple,Judas Priest,Iron Maiden,Metallica
5. We Are The Champions (Stadium Rock 1965-93)
Queen,Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band,The Police,Dire Straits,U2
6. Left Of The Dial (Alternative Rock 1980-94)
REM,Nirvana
7. What The World Is Waiting For (Indie 1980-2007)
The Smiths,the Stone Roses,Suede,Blur ,Oasis,The Libertines, Franz Ferdinand ,The Arctic Monkeys

1982 British live-action/animated musical drama film

There is just one week until Kate Mercer's 45th wedding anniversary and the planning for the party is going well. But then a letter arrives for her husband. The body of his first love has been discovered, frozen and preserved in the icy glaciers of the Swiss Alps. By the time the party is upon them, five days later, there may not be a marriage left to celebrate.

A cryptic message from Bond’s past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organization. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind SPECTRE.

As a country arms itself for war, a family tears itself apart. Forced to avenge his father's death but paralyzed by the task ahead, Hamlet rages against the impossibility of his predicament, threatening both his sanity and the security of the state.

李尔王（伊恩·麦克莱恩 Ian McKellen 饰）年事已高，他决定将广袤的国土分给自己的三个女儿科迪莉亚（萝玛拉·嘉瑞 Romola Garai 饰）、格纳利尔（弗兰西斯·巴贝 Frances Barber 饰）和里根（莫妮卡·杜兰 Monica Dolan 饰）。李尔王让三个女儿说出各自心中对父王的爱戴，格纳利尔和里根极尽花言巧语之所能，得到了李尔王的赞赏，小女儿科迪莉亚质朴而诚实，反而遭到了无情的驱逐。
失去了家园的科迪莉亚成为了法国的王后，而得到了父亲大片疆土的大女儿和二女儿则将李尔王赶出了家门。直到流落荒野无处可去，李尔王才明白自己犯了天大的错误，他一边责怪自己的愚昧，一边心痛科迪莉亚的遭遇。得知了李尔王的境遇，科迪莉亚组织了军队准备向老家进攻，不幸的是，军队遭遇惨败，科迪莉亚也遭到了逮捕。最终，科迪莉亚被处死，年迈的李尔王在痛苦中亦追随而去。

骁勇善战的奥赛罗（艾德里安·莱斯特 Adrian Lester 饰）爱上了元老的女儿苔丝狄蒙娜（琳赛·马歇尔 Lyndsey Marshal 饰），然而奥赛罗的身份卑微，两人的感情注定要经受风雨的打击。尹阿古（罗里·金奈尔 Rory Kinnear 饰）是奥赛罗手下的旗官，阴险狡诈的他妒忌奥赛罗的成就，想将其除之而后快。

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson find themselves in 1890s London in this holiday special.

失物招领处工作的大爷每天都会迎来一位老妇人，每天她都在找不同的物品。为了尽可能的帮助她，大爷每天都更加尽心努力，失物存储室也因而变得越来越让人惊喜。只是似乎这些都不是她在寻找的......From Asa Lucander
When you lose something dear to your heart, there is only one place it can be found. The Lost Property office.

Brandon, a thirty-something man living in New York, eludes intimacy with women but feeds his deepest desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his younger sister temporarily moves into his apartment, stirring up bitter memories of their shared painful past, Brandon's life, like his fragile mind, gets out of control.

2008 film by Guy Ritchie

这是一部扎根于纯真的本性和它的失去这一主题的电影短片。Teo描述了一个少年因为家中不速之客——电视机的出现，而丧失血肉与淳朴灵魂的故事。

Norman Pugg 带着自己的任务抵达了英国海岸的一座小镇：宣传山村里星星的孩子 但是由于几位预定客户在他们自己家中被肢解死亡，Norman发现当地的居民有着比精神困惑更加严重的问题。Norman被警方误认为是连环杀手而遭到通缉，但是为了给这座一切都没有意义的小镇带来清白和幸福，Norman必须坚持下去。