Venus Tour - An Overview of Western Art History

Author: Chen Wangheng
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Publish Date: 2006-04-01
Features: It is a book of dynamism. Beautiful images, beautiful texts, and beautiful sentiments will make you pause: Venus with full breasts and hips—Venus, enchanting birth—Botticelli, the aroma of milk tea by the window—Vermeer, but with melancholy—Watte, "stone" shaping heroes—Rodin, when sorrow turns into happiness—Gauguin, adult fairy tales—Joan Miró, he is the natural protagonist of this book. Not to be overlooked are Goethe, Taine, Hegel, Winckelmann, these masters who wander in the realm of art, offering viewers feasts of words and thoughts, are also delicacies. It is a book of comfort. Wang Xiaobo said, "What is the passage of time?" "It's like a person who is possessed lying at the bottom of a river, watching the flowing water, shimmering light, falling leaves, floating wood, empty glass bottles, one by one, flowing past." Touching the Eternal, Early-Ripened Aristocrat, Smiling from the Other Shore, Ode to Splendor and Joy, Drunkenness of Honey, Embrace and Farewell, The Never-Ending Show. These are the rich chapters of the history of beauty that come along the axis of time; are those geniuses with overflowing talent in the clouds? No, they also have the joys and sorrows of the human world—there is aesthetics outside the history of art, and life tea outside the history of academia. A book of comfort is for this very purpose.