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.
"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?'"
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评分读这本书的感觉不仅是被艺术作品吸引,更吸引我的是因为西蒙选择的对象都是那么的富有争议,这些艺术家原本可以选择另一种更轻松更优渥的生活,但他们不约而同的走上了这条自己坚持的道路,我想这些艺术家本身也就很好的解读了何为艺术的力量吧
评分山巅之上,石头垒砌的塔楼孤单矗立,那道光,像是神的启示,护佑着崇高静穆的孤独,离开这个世界,进入天堂。 这是威尔士王子的象征,他渴望自由,却被禁锢在山巅,唯有死去,才能完成反抗,拥抱自由。 如此高远孤洁的隐喻,已然预示着透纳不同流俗的心灵,向往着悲剧性的崇高...
评分读这本书的感觉不仅是被艺术作品吸引,更吸引我的是因为西蒙选择的对象都是那么的富有争议,这些艺术家原本可以选择另一种更轻松更优渥的生活,但他们不约而同的走上了这条自己坚持的道路,我想这些艺术家本身也就很好的解读了何为艺术的力量吧
评分这本书的书名本身就是一个值得反思的问题——艺术的力量。 在这之前我已记不得有多少次遇到过类似的问题,比如艺术有何用?文学有何用?人文科学的阅读有何用?哲学书籍有何用? 我回答可以提高文化素养,然而这对实用主义,金钱至上的朋友来说似乎太虚化了。...
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
评分某些地方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
评分我很少推荐课本,但确实不错。
评分某些地方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
评分我很少推荐课本,但确实不错。
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