Naive art first became popular at the end of the 19th century. Until that time, this form of expression, created by untrained artists and characterised by spontaneity and simplicity, enjoyed little recognition from professional artists and art critics. Influenced by primitive arts, naive painting is distinguished by the fluidity of its lines, vivacity, and joyful colours, as well as by its rather clean-cut, simple shapes. Naive art counts among it artists: Henri Rousseau, Séraphine de Senlis, André Bauchant, and Camille Bombois. This movement has also found adherents abroad, including such prominent artists as Joan Miró, Guido Vedovato, Niko Pirosmani, and Ivan Generalic.

工艺美术曾触发了英格兰实用艺术的真正改革，形成了一场独特的运动。工艺美术运动由约翰·拉斯金（John Ruskin）发起，威廉·莫里斯（William Morris）付诸实践，推动了维多利亚时代英格兰的革命思想。工匠和设计师因而成为了新的意识形态的核心人物，影响了全世界的风格，将工艺美术运动的关键思想体现在了设计、建筑和绘画之中。

The Baroque period lasted from the beginning of the seventeenth century to the middle of the eighteenth century. Baroque art was artists’ response to the Catholic Church’s demand for solemn grandeur following the Council of Trent, and through its monumentality and grandiloquence it seduced the great European courts. Amongst the Baroque arts, architecture has, without doubt, left the greatest mark in Europe: the continent is dotted with magnificent Baroque churches and palaces, commissioned by patrons at the height of their power. The works of Gian Lorenzo Bernini of the Southern School and Peter Paul Rubens of the Northern School alone show the importance of this artistic period. Rich in images encompassing the arts of painting, sculpture and architecture, this work offers a complete insight into this passionate period in the history of art.

Les Demoiselles d’Avignon: five young women that changed modern art forever. Faces seen simultaneously from the front and in profile, angular bodies whose once voluptuous feminine forms disappear behind asymmetric lines - with this work, Picasso revolutionised the entire history of painting. Cubism was thus born in 1907. Transforming natural forms into cylinders and cubes, painters like Juan Gris and Robert Delaunay, led by Braque and Picasso, imposed a new vision upon the world that was in total opposition to the principles of the Impressionists. Largely diffused in Europe, Cubism developed rapidly in successive phases that brought art history to all the richness of the 20th century: from the futurism of Boccioni to the abstraction of Kandinsky, from the suprematism of Malevich to the constructivism of Tatlin. Linking the core text of Guillaume Apollinaire with the studies of Dr. Dorothea Eimert, this work offers a new interpretation of modernity’s crucial moment, and permits the read

“我画我所见，而非他人所想见。”难道还有什么能比 爱德华马奈（Edouard Manet）的这句话更能诠释印象主义运动了。马奈的这句话似乎与莫奈（Monet）或雷阿诺（Renoir）的情感表达完全不同。莫奈在去世前不久曾写道：“印象主义之名源我而起，但却冠以了一群并非印象主义者的群体，对此我深表遗憾。” 在这本书中，Nathalia Brodskaia考察了这场十九世纪末期的印象主义运动的矛盾之处，分析了印象主义群体在艺术家个人的主张之下形成了的连贯整体的悖论。学术艺术和现代抽象绘画之间的道路漫长而艰辛。作者逐一分析这场艺术运动的基本元素，通过每位艺术家的作品考察了个人的需求是如何催生出现代绘画。

印象主义彻底改变了备受学术规范桎梏的艺术媒介，标志着向现代绘画迈出的步。后印象主义则更加革命性，完全解放了色彩，带我们进入了新的未知的视野领域。乔治·修拉（Georges Seurat）在新时代起锚启航，通过研习谢弗勒尔（Chevreul ,Michel Eugene）的色彩法则，将色彩的化学原理融入到点绘中，创造了全新的形象。梵高也通过浓墨重彩的画笔来表现正午的太阳，而塞尚（Cézanne）则摒弃了线性透视法。正是这些艺术家们的多元化和奇特性，后印象主义成为了二十世纪著名绘画大家的华美乐章。Nathalia Brodskaa的这本《印象主义》正是基于此，以飨读者。

维也纳分离派预示着一场变革。这一学派拥有约二十位才华横溢的艺术家，他们持不同意见，反对保守的学院派画风，认为学院派的风格僵化了维也纳和当时的奥匈帝国。受到新艺术运动的影响，克林姆（Klimt）、莫尔（Moll）和霍夫曼（Hoffmann）在1897年创造了分离派，这并非是一场匿名的艺术革命。因为本质上的不同，分离派将自身定义为“完全艺术”。没有受到任何政治或商业的限制，分离派运动更加类似于哲学运动，是一种以意识形态的风暴来影响工匠、建筑师、图形艺术家和设计师。艺术家们从功成名就的艺术中抬起头来，将目光投放在大量装饰性的植物、仙女之中。他们拥抱唯美主义；当然，这些情色的力量只会冒犯当时的官僚阶级。在这本书中，作者谈到了绘画、雕塑、建筑，强调了分离派运动的多样性和丰富性，正如他们那明确有力的口号：“为时代的艺术，为艺术应得的自由”，阐释了创新性和创造力。

RA:The Book - The Recording Architecture Book of Studio Design was first published as a single, hardcover volume in 2011 and which has sold in over fifty countries to critical acclaim. A necessarily large format dictated by the detailed drawings it contained, RA:The Book was unavoidably heavy and costly to produce and ship. This iBook version is the first of three stand alone volumes which will hopefully make this essential guide to recording studio design more accessible. It includes a new introduction with previously unavailable photographs. The following de*ion is for the original hardcover: Established by Roger D'Arcy and Hugh Flynn on April 1st 1987 Recording Architecture has risen to become one of the premier recording studio design companies in the world. First Commissioned by ex Def Leppard guitarist Pete Willis for Blue Room studios In Sheffield swiftly followed by projects such as Hulgrave Hall, for composer Keith Hopwood the company has grown to design key installations around the world. Now for the first time they will be publishing a history of these ground breaking designs covering all aspects of architectural, acoustic and interior design of these studios and spaces specifically related to sound on a project by project basis. In a Career spanning Three decades Recording Architecture has virtually unrivalled experience in the design of studios which range in size and purpose from classical orchestral, residential, mixing, mastering, post production, film dubbing, video editing and rehearsal studios over 40 countries worldwide. Stating his desire to expand awareness with the new book Roger D Arcy states Over the years, and perhaps surprisingly, the only available books on recording studio design seem to have been written by individuals with little or no qualified background in Architecture or design in the field - we are trying show the detailed architectural/acoustic input behind a successful design with each studio study showing drawings in large format . This is not a theoretical guide but a detailed presentation of tried and tested techniques as applied to real, built projects in many of the case studies, the actual drawings issued for construction are reproduced. The examples illustrate not only what we think should be done but what was in fact physically (and successfully) implemented in a wide variety of situations from small, private project studios to large, commercial land mark studios such as Lansdowne and CTS. Examples range in scope from individual spaces and rooms to multi studio facilities and cover the two principal strands of recording and mixing: MUSIC studios recording (tracking), mixing and mastering (including cutting) project to orchestral in scale examples have been taken from the private, commercial and educational sectors. POST PRODUCTION studios voice over (dubbing), FX recording ( Foley ), film mix studios (dubbing theatres) from small voice over studios for TV to large Dolby Premier Certified film mix theatres. Contents include hundreds of photographs together with detailed plans and construction drawings - including comprehensive specifications of materials and techniques - showing exactly how these environments were created.

Mega Square Sculpture spans over 23,000 years and over 120 examples of the most beautiful sculptures in the world: from prehistoric art and Egyptian statues to the works of Michelangelo, Henry Moore and Niki de Saint-Phalle. It illuminates the wide variety of materials used and the evolution of styles over centuries, as well as the peculiarities of the most important sculptors.

让我们去发现保罗·塞尚（Paul Cezanne）的作品，他对于技巧和形式的探讨定义了绘画的后印象主义运动，也为立体主义的出现搭建了艺术的舞台。他大胆地运用亮丽的色彩，影响了之后好几代艺术家，也让今天的我们感到惊喜和愉悦。这本Mega Square收录了大量这位重要的法国画家的作品——当然，对于任何一位艺术粉丝来说，都是一份至上的礼物。

浮世绘是日本江户时代繁荣时期（1615-1868）兴起的一种独特的民族艺术。浮世绘是这一时代的特色，它是艺术家、雕刻家和印花家共同创作的成果。因为技术进步、创作成本降低，浮世绘的创作展示了人们的日常生活，女人、歌舞伎甚至是相扑手，还有美景也都是浮世绘作品所偏爱的主题。菱川师宣（他享有浮世绘始祖的桂冠）、胜川春章、喜多川歌麿、葛饰北斋，甚至是歌川广重都是这场运动中负盛名的艺术家。1868年，日本明治维新，对西方开放。浮世绘精湛的技艺、细腻的作品、生动的刻画，深深地吸引了西方世界，影响了印象主义的大师，例如梵高，例如克林姆。这就是所谓的“日本主义”时期。冯赛德利茨（Woldemar von Seidlitz）和多拉·阿姆斯登（Dora Amsden）含蓄地强调了这一运动对于整个西方艺术的重大影响。这本书中重要的作品勾勒了女性理想、上帝之位和顺应山水自然之景的重要性，而这些同样成为了对于早期社会的不可多得的见证。

Mega Square的《高更》邀请读者跟随这位绘画梦想家保罗·高更（Paul Gauguin）的色彩丰富的杰作，从法国到梦幻到充满异域风情的塔希提岛。这本书既收录了这位影响深远的画家的标志性作品，也收录了他一些鲜为人知的杰作，重点强调了高更著名的情色、原始的风格和色彩的灵动。对于高更的粉丝或者是还未发掘高更作品的艺术爱好者来说，这本方便丰富的小册子就是一份*的礼物。

Mega Square版的《植物标本》是基于巴西利厄斯·贝斯莱尔（Basilius Besler）的作品。贝斯莱尔是著名的植物专家，也是历史上描写、绘画和雕刻了上千种植物的人。Mega Square将是一份理想的礼物，在一本精巧实用的小册子里充满了有趣而另类的话题。

Mega Square In Praise of the Backside celebrates the most sensual part of the female body. The insightful text by Hans-Jürgen Dpp discusses the backside as a feature that stands for both powerful eroticism and supple femininity, seducing famous artists from every genre. This title is sure to entice and delight a wide audience with its lively, provocative images.

你很难将保罗克利（Paul Klee）归类到某个艺术史上的运动。与瓦西里康定斯基（Wassily Kandinsky）和弗兰茨马尔克（Franz Marc）类似，克利曾是表现主义画家团体蓝骑士（Der Blaue Reiter）的重要成员之一。之后，他又参与到了包豪斯建筑学派之中，甚至在德绍的学校中教授绘画课程。就克利看来，艺术与生产无关，只是为了让事物更加清晰可见。在他的绘画中，克利微妙地融入了二十世纪初的趋势。对于德国的表现主义来说，克利为其注入了立体主义和奥费主义的元素，用超现实主义的忧郁的诗歌来点缀他的作品。 作者带领我们穿越克利世界中的奇迹，画中的每一笔都回响着色彩的力量。

爱是不可忽视的永恒的话题，一直以来吸引着无数艺术家。画家、雕刻家、甚至建筑师也从中获得灵感，用艺术来阐释爱。这个万古长青的话题催生了艺术家们一生的杰作。从提香（Titian）的《出世与入世之爱》（Sacred and Profane Love）到布朗库西（Brancusi）的《吻》（Kiss），爱随着时间和风格变幻无穷，但是终仍停留在永恒和普世的语言之中。这本书为我们阐释了爱的力量和变化。

Reflecting their owner’s taste and serving as an impressive exhibition space for visitors, cabinets of curiosities were a place of interest in the houses of the wealthy in the 16th an 17th centuries. Displaying rare vegetable and animal species and fossils, these cabinets were always dedicated to science and knowledge. By collecting uncommon and beautiful objects in nature, rich noblemen were able to build a microcosm expressing the diversity of God’s creation.

古斯塔夫·克林姆(Gustav Klimt)初因其采用的装饰花纹闻名（与他的兄弟及其在艺术学校的伙伴弗朗茨·马什共同创作）。因为大多剧院和重要的维也纳艺术史博物馆（在他的时代是重要的）均采用的是玛卡特（Makart）式的冷色调摄影风格。在他三十岁的时候他有了自己的工作室，并且开始了架上绘画。在三十五岁的时候，他成为了维也纳分离派的奠基人之一。在八年之后，在对自然主义日益强势的趋势倍感失望的情况下，他离开了这一领域。

在十九世纪八十年代开始转向印象主义的莫斯科艺术家都崇拜年轻的谢罗夫的作品，他田园牧歌般的景色清晰地揭示了日常生活中那些小事儿的抒情诗。谢罗夫受益于他的老师Repin和Tchistiakov，成为了当时出色的俄罗斯肖像画画家。他娴熟的技艺在他美丽的作品中显露无疑，《带桃子的少女》、《尤利西斯和风之谷》，谢罗夫创造性的作品和经历为俄罗斯绘画成为二十世纪绘画艺术的一部分打开了道路。

Universally celebrated for his rosy and concupiscent nudes, Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) was an artist whose first concern was sensuality in all its forms. This Baroque master devoted himself to a lifelong celebration of the joys and wonders of the physical realm. He felt that the human body was as lovely and natural as the many natural landscapes he painted as a young man. In a lushly illustrated text, María Varshavskaya and Xenia Yegorova explore the master at work, bringing a unique focus to Ruben’s life and work

Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) has long been considered one of the greatest artists in European history. His paintings have launched imitations and homages, including best-selling novels, a recent TV series, and even a handful of popular films. Now, for the first time, this lovely text by ?mile Michel is paired with carefully curated selections from Rembrandt’s portfolio to illuminate the history and work of this celebrated master of light.