Biographies of Western Artists

Author: Si Qi
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Publish Date: 2004-12-01
Features: A language is not just a tool for communication, but also a carrier of thought—and ultimately, of civilization. Such a key can not only open the door to your future life but also unlock another quite novel and sufficiently fascinating civilization. This unique civilization has its own language, thought, literature, history, and legends, its own heroes and giants, colors, and glories. Through its language, you become more likely to truly touch the pulse of this civilization and breathe its distinctive air. From this perspective, a foreign language is closer to a kaleidoscope—through it, you can see how many colorful and utterly novel things there are! In this book, let’s abandon the progression of history and trace back from modern art to the Renaissance, looking at the traces left by artists on this reverse timeline of Western civilization’s development. These traces blend the art of their lives with the lives they lived. Reading their lives in bilingual (bilingual parallel text) allows you to learn English and connect with them while paying a unique tribute to these great artists. Reading this book will enable you to answer the question I raised at the beginning of the article. By examining the lives of these Western artists, you’ll understand—just because life is unknown, it can be full of anticipation and truly extraordinary. This book is presented in English-Chinese (bilingual parallel text) and features biographies of over twenty Western artists, with annotations on unfamiliar words and allusions in each biography to help readers better understand the original text.