20世纪初，由于义和团运动和辛亥革命的影响，大量中国文物向海外流失。本书作者在大量海外的原始资料和调查研究的基础上，考察了中国文物于近代的各种流出形态，阐明其复杂的历史背景，特别围绕其与日本的关系加以探讨，并着眼于日本古董商对中国文物的传播与收藏的形成所起的作用，阐明其意义，其中尤其突出的是山中商会的会长山中定次郎所处的决定性地位。此外，书中还分别通过对中国古陶瓷器和青铜器的典型事例，考察了日本近代中国美术鉴赏成立的过程和意义。全书资料翔实，尤其是使用到许多国内难得一见的原始资料，视角独特，分析透彻，是一部具有极高学术意义和参考价值的有关中国艺术品流转与鉴赏史的专著。

Julia Andrews's extraordinary study of art, artists, and artistic policy during the first three decades of the People's Republic of China makes a major contribution to our understanding of modern China. From 1949 to 1979 the Chinese government controlled the lives and work of the country's artists—these were also years of extreme isolation from international artistic dialogue. During this period the Chinese Communist Party succeeded in eradicating most of the artistic styles and techniques it found politically repugnant. By 1979, traditional landscape painting had been replaced by a new style and subject that was strikingly different from both contemporary Western art and that of other Chinese areas such as Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Through vivid firsthand accounts, Andrews recreates the careers of many individual artists who were forced to submit to a vacillating policy regarding style, technique, medium, and genre. She discusses the cultural controls that the government used, the ways in which artists responded, and the works of art that emerged as a result. She particularly emphasizes the influence of the Soviet Union on Chinese art and the problems it created for the practice of traditional painting. This book opens the way to new, stimulating comparisons of Western and Eastern cultures and will be welcomed by art historians, political scientists, and scholars of Asia.

本书收集20世纪至今具有代表性的西方艺术理论文献27篇，主要涉及艺术理论基本问题、现代主义与先锋派、艺术与其社会语境、艺术史及其社会体制、艺术的符号与风格等五个方面，囊括了现代西方艺术思想领域较为重要的主题，展现了一幅西方艺术理论发展的现当代图景。每篇文献之前，附有简短介绍，以便读者能对相关作者、思想有更深的了解。

19世纪60和70年代的巴黎向来被认为是一个崭新的城市，一个到处都是林荫大道、咖啡店、公园和郊外娱乐场所的地方，一个构成了“现代生活”的商业与休闲风俗的诞生地。T.J.克拉克通过质疑那些仅仅从技法上来看待印象派画家的史学家，着重描绘了马奈、莫奈、德加、修拉及其他画家试图赋予现代性以形式，并寻找现代生活中最具典型特色的代表——不管他（她）们是酒吧女、划船者、妓女、观光客，还是在草地上用午餐的小资产阶级。本书的核心问题是：现代绘画的出现究竟是一场拿破仑三世时期巴黎消费文化的庆典，还是对这一消费文化的批评性探索？这部经典著作的修订版包含了作者撰写的新序，以及148帧高质量的插图（其中30幅是附有高清局部的彩图）。

Sociology of Art provides students with an introduction to the fundamental theories and debates in the sociology of art, using extracts from the core foundational and most influential contemporary writers in the field. The book is divided into five sections exploring key themes in the sociology and social history of art. These are: classical sociological theory and the sociology of art the social production of art the sociology of the artist museums and the social construction of high culture sociology aesthetic form and the specificity of art. With the addition of an introductory essay that not only contextualises the readings within the traditions of sociology and art history, but which also draws fascinating parallels between the origins and development of these two disciplines, this book opens up a productive interdisciplinary dialogue between sociology and art history as well as providing a fascinating introduction to the subject. This book will be essential reading both for students of the sociology of art and for students of art history.

柯提斯•卡特(Curtis Carter)，美国著名哲学家和美学家，Temple University荣誉教授，国际美学协会国际美学协会会长，致力于分析美学与新实用主义哲学的研究。《艺术与社会变迁：国际美学年刊》是卡特主编的新一期美学年刊，中外十来位学者就这一主题展开深度讨论，从艺术与政治的关系、艺术与技术的关联、艺术在教育、文化中的地位与意义，还有艺术与女性主义等话题，分别论述了社会在各个领域中的拓展及价值表现，对我们从事艺术与美学研究提供了诸多启发。