Translator: Wang, Wang
Publishing House: Jiangsu Phoenix Fine Arts Publishing House
Publication date: 2065438+June 2008
Charlotte and Peter Phil are famous British design historians. They all have professional education background and rich academic experience in art history and design history. From 1993 to 2008, they co-edited Taschen. In 2008, they set up their own publishing company Goodman Fiell, and the book The Story of Design was published by the company.
The Story of Design is a very popular professional book, in which the two authors give full play to their editing experience and are very friendly to readers. The book has clear logical structure, simplified knowledge and easy-to-understand language. The development process of the whole design from the primitive period to the first decade of 2 1 century is described. The research objects are concentrated in product design, furniture design, transportation and graphic design, and the fields are mainly concentrated in Europe, America and Japan, the pioneers of industrialization. The content arrangement not only takes care of the important stages or movements that people are familiar with in the history of design, such as art and handicraft movement, new art, modernism and pop design, but also combines the division of social process and design development, such as "American manufacturing system and Fordism", "design for war" and "environmental awareness and product ethics", forming the response of design in the historical context. The author emphasizes that design will not be produced in a cultural vacuum, but a reflection of human civilization and a carrier of various ideas, viewpoints and value judgments.
Design and Reality
Translator: jing yuan
Press: China Academy of Fine Arts Press.
Release time: 20 18 10 month.
Robert Grudin, Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley, teaches English at the University of Oregon. As a researcher of Shakespeare, I have written many articles on political philosophy and noticed the important role of design thinking in human life.
This book liberates "design" from the narrow professional concept and puts it into various behaviors of modern human life, analyzing how design activities play a role in human spirit. "Design shapes, regulates and guides energy, so that power can play its role in an orderly manner". In addition to product design and architectural design in the usual sense, the author discusses the design of personal time arrangement, knowledge structure, company management mode and social system (how to realize freedom) with a lot of pen and ink. This paper attempts to explore how the free creation of the whole society and human spirit can be carried out through design thinking, forming a response to the upsurge of interdisciplinary humanities research. In addition to cars and furniture, there are a large number of works of art, literary works and even social cases. In a scheme or a work of art, the energy faced by design is meaning. In the book, the deep collision between design and civilization brings a refreshing vision to design practitioners.
Only Pink: Gender Politics of Aesthetic Interest
Translator: Teng Xiaobo Liu
Publishing House: Jiangsu Phoenix Fine Arts Publishing House
Release date: 20 18 1 1 month.
The first edition of this book was published in 1995, and the Chinese version was translated according to the revised edition of 20 10. The research results embodied in this book highlight the importance of interdisciplinary research methods. In the narrative texts of classic design history, the research on design history is mostly male. For example, the theme of public space in Bauhaus and modernist design will be particularly strengthened, while the design related to female culture and family private space will be ignored.
The research of British scholar Penny Spark found that female designers are in a neglected position, largely because in modern society, women are often regarded as consumers rather than creators. In her book Only Pink: Gender Politics of Aesthetic Interest, Penny Spark explores the different experiences of women in the historical period from 65438+ 1930 to 1970, and how women's culture can be passed down through family skills. The author hopes to reveal the material culture of Britain and America from modernism to postmodernism from a brand-new perspective, and re-analyze and explain the development of modern design history.
Different from the previous research on design history and theory, this is Penny Spark's reflection on her previous design theory, and for the first time, she systematically expounds her new perspective of understanding design from the standpoint of women, and also responds to the hot spots and frontier topics in the current international design theory research.
Cultural Anthropology and Intangible Cultural Heritage
Publishing House: Life Reading Xinzhi Sanlian Bookstore
Release time: 2065438+0865438+February.
In recent years, intangible cultural heritage has become a hot issue in government management and academic research. However, due to the long-term limitation of the theory and practice of various disciplines and administrative boundaries, the systematic study of intangible cultural heritage with overall concern has been weak. In the new era, Socialism with Chinese characteristics's cultural self-confidence puts forward new and higher requirements for theoretical exploration, policy innovation and protection and activation of intangible cultural heritage, and urgently requires the emergence of research results that integrate historical logic, theoretical logic and practical logic.
Cultural anthropology and intangible cultural heritage face the practical problems faced by the theory and practice of intangible cultural heritage in China, and bring them into the theoretical system of anthropology for dialogue and reflection. The book is deeply combed and discussed from the perspectives of concept, field, cultural characteristics, cultural administration, protection practice, the relationship between new socialist tradition and cultural and creative industries. In particular, the overall concept of cultural anthropology, big tradition and small tradition, center and edge, and cultural production and reproduction run through the book, instead of being regarded as some kind of discussion and dialogue between anthropological theory and intangible cultural heritage practice, it is regarded as a realistic observation of China traditional culture by anthropology.
The shape of time: a brief study of the history of creation
Translator: Guo Weiqi
Publishing House: Commercial Press
Release time: 2065438+0965438+1October.
The book was first published in English in 1962. Combined with the new achievements in linguistics, biology, physics, mathematics and other fields at that time, this paper criticized the research modes of art history such as artist biography, iconology and style research, and put forward enlightening opinions, which had an important influence in academic circles. "We assume that the concept of art can be extended to artifacts in all fields, including all tools and literary works except those that are not practical, beautiful and poetic in the world." The "shape of time" mentioned by the author is reflected in at least two aspects: first, time, such as space, is generally presented by everything that fills it. As far as art history is concerned, it is the constant change of man-made form that reflects the form of time; Secondly, the various forms of time are also various fiber forms and continuous series artifacts. These different forms not only challenge the traditional historical stage, but also reveal the basic ways of morphological evolution.
The book is divided into several parts: the historical study of creation, the classification of works of art, the spread of works of art and several durations, which provides a brand-new method for the study of art history and is a sober, profound, quiet and exciting meditation on the position of various works of art in the flow of time and space.
Footprints of tools
Translator: Yang
Publishing House: Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House
Release time: 2065438+0965438+1October.
There are many people in Japan who are engaged in handcrafting, creating freely and creating their ideal living utensils. "Setouchi Life Craft Festival" is a gathering of such a group of life craft creators and users, which is held in Takamatsu, Shikoku for two days every autumn. Seto Inland Sea not only has charming scenery, but also is the center of Japanese life craft. There are folk art traditions left by Liu Zongyue and Noguchi Yong, and it is also a gathering place for contemporary craftsmen. Commodity economy and folk art tradition collide here, which breeds the integration of utensils into daily life.
Taking this as the origin, Footprints of Objects interviewed dozens of Japanese craftsmen, writers and designers to share stories about objects and people. Designers, popular food designers, writers, brand designers and famous craftsmen who are active in the forefront of industrial design have formed such a "map of daily necessities" through sincere dialogue. An article contains the story of the creator and the story of the user Exploring the "footprint of artifacts" and listening to stories about artifacts, whether it is the lovely footprint left by handmade works or mechanical products at home or the small philosophy displayed in them, the prospects of living artifacts seem to be particularly broad. Each interviewee has a different definition of "good", but in common, the object that can be recognized must be beautiful and warm enough to light up life.
The Land of Yunxiu: Garden Culture of Ming Dynasty in China
Translator: Kong Tao
Press: Henan University Press
Release date: 20 19 65438+ 10 month.
Based on the understanding and mastery of the garden art in China in the Ming Dynasty (1369- 1644), the famous sinologist Kruger put forward the following questions: Who owns the garden? Who visits the garden? How do they convey the meaning of gardens through painting or visual forms? What are the differences between these statements and people of different social classes in China? After studying the theory of generalized culture, Kruger interprets China's garden culture from the perspective of history and materialism for the first time: "What I am trying to do is to provide a narrative that deviates from convention. I wrote this book to describe the gardening thoughts and ubiquitous gardening activities of the upper class in southern China during the period of 1450- 1650. These construction activities are shown in the visual presentation of the text and in the form of maps, paintings and illustrations in the literature. "
The book is divided into five parts: resplendent court, ornamental garden, Wen's garden, garden image and garden figures. On the basis of absorbing the latest cultural theories, the author creates a critical perspective, explains China's garden culture from the perspective of history and materialism, excludes abstract generalization and oriental fantasy, and regards it as "a unique and controversial material and cultural carrier with rich historical and social content", which convincingly describes the role of gardens in social life.
A brief history of red porcelain
Publishing House: Century Wenjing Shanghai People's Publishing House
Publication date: 2065438+March 2009
"A Brief History of Zisha" takes a comprehensive inventory of the history of China Zisha art from the Song Dynasty to the present. It can be divided into six stages: initial stage, rising stage, mature stage, developed stage, declining and reviving stage, newborn stage and heyday, from which we can see the social atmosphere, cultural background and artistic concept in different periods, as well as the corresponding pot-making knowledge, appreciation wind direction, famous pot display and tea culture details. It can be said that the world is condensed in a pot.
This book gives a comprehensive account of the history of purple sand since the Song Dynasty, which not only reflects the social background and art of the times, but also shows the technical details and cultural details. Illustration 139 introduces the famous works and aesthetic details of purple sand to 60 pot-making masters and representative craftsmen. It is not only professional and systematic, but also easy to understand, clear in organization and rich in details. At the moment when tea culture is booming, many fans have a strong interest in purple sand, but they can't enter the door. Readers can use this book as an introductory guide to appreciate and identify purple sand pottery, and also get profound historical and aesthetic nutrients from it.
Technology should keep pace with the times —— Taking the revival of traditional technology as an example
Editor: Chen Anying
Press: China Light Industry Press
Publication date: 2065438+April 2009
This book is the result of "China Traditional Craft Revitalization Plan" entrusted by the Intangible Cultural Heritage Department of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism to the project team of Tsinghua University Academy of Fine Arts. In the new era, different regions and different types of traditional crafts have different development laws, and traditional craft enterprises at different stages of development also have different situations and choices. The project team selected 20 different types of cases nationwide, trying to extract general rules through case studies and form experiences and models that can be popularized. The final research results of the project first make a macro analysis of the era, policy background, development path and direction of revitalizing China's traditional crafts, forming the introduction part of this book. Subsequently, the case analysis is summarized into four groups, and four issues are discussed in turn: intergenerational inheritance and development and innovation, enterprise operation and brand building, regional culture and industrial revitalization, manual education and rural revitalization.
Chen Anying, editor, is currently the director of the Department of Art History Theory of Tsinghua University Academy of Fine Arts, and the executive deputy director of the Key Laboratory of Traditional Arts and Materials Research, Culture and Tourism. Based on the first-hand information collected and sorted by the research team under its leadership, the book is very concrete and vivid, which provides a useful reference for government work, industry practice and academic research related to the intangible cultural heritage of traditional crafts.
Entering London Design Museum: Interpreting Classic Design
Translator: Success is still valid.
Publishing: Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House
Publication date: 2065438+May 2009
This book contains a large number of design examples and case studies for future designers, engineers, technical experts, manufacturers and educators, and makes in-depth research on product design practice. The author is a lecturer at the Royal Academy of Art, curator of Victoria and Albert Museum, contemporary design critic and writer. His works conform to the public education curriculum of London Design Museum, and combine case analysis and theoretical exploration to introduce the basic knowledge of design, so that readers are influenced by design practice and design culture.
The cases in the book involve many fields, including but not limited to: paper clips, Olympic torch, London bus, Apple iPhone, Obama campaign poster, Dyson vacuum cleaner, Nike sports shoes, Nintendo game consoles, mobile 3D printers and so on. The author introduces many materials and manufacturing methods that transform design ideas into good products, expounds the product design from the initial stage of design to the complete product life cycle, and discusses the development trend of future design. Understand how famous designers who are in the leading position in the design industry work, discuss the influence and opportunities brought by different materials to design, and cover other topics related to product design, such as ergonomics, computer-aided design, manufacturing and prototyping.
Thesis Extending for a Thousand Years —— Tuoba Collection of Ancient Objects Collected in the National Library
Editor: National Library
Publishing House: Shanghai Painting and Calligraphy Publishing House
Publication date: 2065438+June 2009
The National Library has collected more than 3,000 inscriptions of ancient cultural relics and holograms. The book is included in the 87-axis full-size extended inscription collected by the National Library of the United States, involving 89 kinds of cultural relics, including bronzes, pottery and bones. Among them, you can see all kinds of common ritual vessels, musical instruments, weapons and utensils, such as ding, GUI, Jue, horn, pot, plate, clock, sword, lamp, stove and so on. A relatively large number are 12 ding, 8 GUI, 7 pots, 7 statues and 6 bells. Most of these mounted axes were inscribed by famous epigraphists and collectors in modern times, among which there were many excellent works, such as Eight Screens of Yi Snake Scenery, Twelve Screens of Yi Scenery in Shang and Zhou Dynasties, Eight Screens of Chen Copper and Mo Tuotu and so on. The content of the stele involves textual research and interpretation, the spread of artifacts and rubbings, and the friends of scholars after the late Qing Dynasty. It is a rare and precious historical material. The book provides high-definition pictures of important parts such as the whole mounting shaft, overall shape, inscriptions, inscriptions, seals and inscriptions, interprets the ink of famous artists, records the relevant information of rubbings and corresponding objects, and makes a simple textual research on some of them, so as to show the rubbings to readers as completely as possible.