History of Western Art: Illustrated Edition

Author: Feng Zikai
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: This book is divided into three parts: Ancient Art, Modern Art, and Contemporary Art, explaining the development and evolution of Western art in the long history of human civilization in chronological order. It encompasses various fields of art such as architecture, sculpture, and painting, introducing, analyzing, and commenting on them by country, region, and artistic movement. For students of art, other art enthusiasts, or those who are "a little impatient to live on the first floor," it is an invaluable introductory book. Moreover, with the prose style of Mr. Feng Zikai, an artist's perspective, even though written in the language and script of the 1930s, and even though it discusses the theory of art history, it remains clear, fluent, and easy to understand. It can be said that A History of Western Art is the ladder Mr. Feng Zikai built for the general "mortals living on the first floor" to ascend to the "artistic palace on the second floor."