THE ART OF DESCRIBING: DUTCH ART IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
Book ID/图书代码： 13560015B84497
English Summary/英文概要： "The art historian after Erwin Panofsky and Ernst Gombrich is not only participating in an activity of great intellectual excitement; he is raising and exploring issues which lie very much at the centre of psychology, of the sciences and of history itself. Svetlana Alpers’s study of 17th-century Dutch painting is a splendid example of this excitement and of the centrality of art history among current disciples. Professor Alpers puts forward a vividly argued thesis. There is, she says, a truly fundamental dichotomy between the art of the Italian Renaissance and that of the Dutch masters. . . . Italian art is the primary expression of a ’textual culture,’ this is to say of a culture which seeks emblematic, allegorical or philosophical meanings in a serious painting. Alberti, Vasari and the many other theoreticians of the Italian Renaissance teach us to ’read’ a painting, and to read it in depth so as to elicit and construe its several levels of signification. The world of Dutch art, by the contrast, arises from and enacts a truly ’visual culture.’ It serves and energises a system of values in which meaning is not ’read’ but ’seen,’ in which new knowledge is visually recorded."—George Steiner, Sunday Times
"There is no doubt that thanks to Alpers’s highly original book the study of the Dutch masters of the seventeenth century will be thoroughly reformed and rejuvenated. . . . She herself has the verve, the knowledge, and the sensitivity to make us see familiar sights in a new light."—E. H. Gombrich, New York Review of Books
Chinese Summary/中文概要： “继潘诺夫斯基和贡布里希之后，艺术史学家们不仅仅需要参与充满伟大激越情感的学术活动，他还需要培养和探索位于哲学、科学以及历史本身中心地位的一系列课题。斯维特拉娜•阿尔博斯对于17世纪荷兰绘画的研究正是华丽地论证了这一种情感以及艺术史在诸多现行学科之中的中心地位。阿尔博斯教授提出了一个非常生动且值得探讨的论点。她认为，在意大利文艺复兴艺术与荷兰艺术大师们的艺术之间，确实存在着一种真正意义上的对立与分歧。。。。。。意大利艺术是对“语境文化”的一种最原始最本质的表达，也就是说，这是一种通过在系列绘画作品中寻求象征、寓言以及哲学意义的文化。阿尔伯蒂、瓦萨里以及许许多多其他意大利文艺复兴时期的理论家们教会了我们去“品读”一幅绘画作品，通过深入解读的方式去引申和解释其多种不同层次的含义。而荷兰艺术作品的世界则是截然相反的，它起源于并用于展现真实的“视觉文化”。它为某一价值系统提供服务并赋予其能量，在这一价值体系中，含义不是用来“品读”的而是用来“观看”的，而新的知识也是通过视觉的方式被记录下来。”----乔治•斯泰纳，周末泰晤士报
“毫无疑问，正是因为阿尔博斯极具原创新的研究，才能够使得荷兰17世纪艺术大师们的艺术被完完全全的改良和重新赋予活力。。。。。。她拥有者一种活力、知识和敏锐， 能够让我们以全新的眼光去看待熟悉的事物。”----E•H•格慕布里茨，纽约书评(DC)
Awards/获奖情况：阿尔博斯这部于1984年创作的经典研究作品教会了我们17世纪的荷兰艺术家们是如何采用一种与同期意大利艺术家们截然不同的方式，去“看待”艺术。虽然本书已经是一部提及荷兰艺术都会有所引用的经典作品，但其经久不衰的艺术特征还是值得每一名对视觉表现艺术有兴趣的读者去细细品读。
Alpers’ brilliant 1984 study teaches us how Dutch artists of the seventeenth century "saw" in contrast with with their Italian counterparts. Already one of the most frequently cited books on Dutch art, this ground-breaking work should be read by anyone with an interest in visual representation.
About the Author/作者介绍： 斯韦特兰娜•阿尔珀斯是伯克利加州大学艺术史系的荣誉退休教授，以及纽约大学美术系的访问学者。
Svetlana Alpers is Professor Emerita, History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley, and Visiting Scholar at the Department of Fine Arts, New York University.
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