书名：The Power of Art艺术的力量 

作者：Simon Schama 

出版社名称：Bodley Head 

出版时间：2009 

语种：英文 

ISBN：9781847921185 

商品尺寸：19.1 x 3.1 x 24.6 cm 

包装：平装 

页数：448

《艺术的力量》是一部充满哲理与激情的艺术史作品。八位历史上伟大的艺术家，几十件受人尊崇或是已遭遗忘的艺术作品，八个杰作诞生前的戏剧性瞬间以及无数张力交织而成的、巨大的内心之网…… 《艺术的力量》所要捕捉并为我们呈现的，正是这样一些细碎而又无比饱满的片断。它没有按照历史时序全面讲解绘画或雕塑领域的术语、技法或流派更迭，也不曾一板一眼地分析艺术家的生平、创作及其对后世的影响，这或许会令一位认真的艺术专业的学生失望，但是它能够震撼那些身处艺术场域内外的、对艺术与生活怀着热爱又时常感到疑惑的心灵。   《艺术的力量》不算是一本中规中矩的艺术史，而是极为个人化的故事书——它的取材源自作者西蒙·沙马的个人偏好，它关注那些隐藏在画作背后的个体的欢愉与痛苦，直达个体的内心——我们是作为单个的读者被感动、被击中，而不是作为一群艺术爱好者而被吸引、被满足。 也正是因此，在某种意义上，The Power of Art《艺术的力量》这本书又堪称好的艺术史，因为它是原初意义上的历史写作——它给了我们故事，让我们手握着故事留下的遗迹，认识了故事中的人。 媒体评论： “这并不是沉寂的周日下午在艺术馆里的一次闲逛，或在历史记忆中对美的一次游历，而是对创造性想象力这座活火山的一次侵袭，并深入到那些人类所创造出来的、曾风靡世界的伟大的作品。”——西蒙·沙马 艺术是一个谎言，它令你认识真实。——巴布罗·毕加索  'Great art has dreadful manners...' Simon Schama observes at the start of his epic 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...' The embattled heroes - Caravaggio, Bernini, Rembrandt, David, Turner, Van Gogh, Picasso and Rothko - faced crisis with steadfast defiance. The masterpieces they created challenged convention, shattered complacency, shifted awareness and changed the way we look at the world. With powerfully vivid story-telling, 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, Power of Art traces the extraordinary evolution of eight 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?"' Review "Packed with noisy enthusiasm, punchy arguments and verbal agility... An excessively gifted communicator, [Schama] knows how to sweep facts and argument into a powerful, fluent narrative" (The Independent) "Power of Art feels as if it has been written in one breathless burst of enthusiasm, in a prose style that crackles like electricity" (Sydney Morning Herald) "A stunning work, resounding with profound insights which rivet the attention... A beautifully conceived and presented book from the professor of art history at Columbia University, New York. There must be few others in the world who could equal it" (Western Daily Press) "Powerfully vivid story-telling... Schama is a powerful communicator, and it is a joy to witness him explore the extraordinary evolution of eight world-class works of art" (Good Book Guide) "Politics, religion, war, sex and love are the inspirations behind the paintings chosen, and each takes on a new life under Schama's gaze" (First magazine)The Power of Art《艺术的力量》揭开西方艺术史的光辉一页，深入了解艺术家的故事，感受艺术中独特而又震撼的力量。 八位艺术大师拥有自成一派的创作风格和鲜明的个性，本书将剖析艺术大师们鲜为人知、扣人心弦的故事。回到危险又以救世主自居的罗马、富裕如暴发户般的阿姆斯特丹、偏执狂般而又富有革命性的巴黎、维多利亚女王时代在富足和正义的表象下令人窒息的英格兰、普罗旺斯的精神病院和妓院、西班牙内战时的大屠杀，以及20世纪50年代同时陷入冷战的神经过敏与曼哈顿浮华的纽约。在每一个地方，伟大的艺术家都会被逼入困境，而面对危机时，他们又一次获得了挫败他们的对手、敌人和反对者的机会…… 《艺术的力量》促使我们踏上一段大开眼界又激动人心的复归之旅，从卡拉瓦乔的《大卫与歌利亚》到毕加索的《格尔尼卡》，全书聚焦于八件非凡的杰作。这些处于困境的英雄，卡拉瓦乔、贝尼尼、伦勃朗、大卫、透纳、凡·高、毕加索以及罗斯科，每一位都以极为自我的方式，在面对危机时怀着坚定的反抗、战斗的激情和对抗一切嘲讽与短视的信念。他们创造的杰作，挑战了习俗，打破了人们的自满，转变了认知，并改变了我们看待这个世界的方式。 同时，它们也在不容置疑且庄严地回答每一个被迫接触艺术的人提出的问题——“好吧，好吧，可艺术的意义究竟是什么呢？”西蒙·沙马将枯燥的艺术史知识转化成引人入胜的故事，期待着您对艺术的探寻！ 西蒙·沙马是位睿智严谨的学者，曾执教剑桥、牛津、哈佛等名校，现在任教于哥伦比亚大学艺术史系，主攻17世纪荷兰艺术、18世纪法国的绘画与政治、16-21世纪英国视觉艺术等方向。他的研究不限于艺术史，同时还涉及欧洲史、文化史等方面，尤其擅长将艺术家及其作品的内部精神世界与外部的社会文化变迁加以联系，相互阐释。不仅如此，他也是讲故事的行家、深受大众喜爱的电视明星，他与BBC合作的《英国史》一度改写纪录片的收视率纪录，据说甚至击败了当年红极一时的剧集《欲望都市》（Sex and the City）。 Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University in New York, and was awarded a C.B.E. in the 2001 New Year's Honours List. Since 1995 he has been art and culture critic for The New Yorker and essayist for The Guardian. His award-winning books include Citizens; Rembrandt's Eyes and the History of Britain trilogy. His most recent book, The American Future, was published in 2008.

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