本书内容丰富，涉及艺术总论、绘画、雕塑、设计、环境艺术、民间艺术、音乐舞蹈、戏剧、影视、摄影等几乎所有艺术门类……全书中英文对照,适合高等院校的艺术专业生学习使用。

Part One：Art Theory艺术概论

Lesson 1 Differences Between Creative Art And Creative Science

艺术论：论艺术创造与科学创造的区别

Lesson 2 The Sensibility Of A Critic

艺术论：论艺术评论家的素质

Lesson 3 The Same Characteristics Between Music And Painting

艺术心理学：关于音乐作品和美术作品综合特征的

共性和特性

Lesson 4 The Intuitiveness Of Benedetto Croce

艺术论：评意大利美学家克罗齐的直觉论

Lesson 5 American Folk Art

美国民间艺术

Exercise

Passage 1 Techniqiue Is From Training

Passage 2 Hispanic Arts And American Indian Arts

Passage 3 Contemporary Western American Art 

Part Two：Fine Arts And Design美术及设计

Unit One绘画

Lesson 1The Development Of Watercolor Painting In America

美国水彩画的发展

Iesson 2 Colonial Artists

殖民地艺术家

Lesson 3 Hudson River School

哈得逊河画派

Lesson 4 The Collage Of Romare Bearden

评黑人艺术家比尔登的拼贴画

Lesson 5 Panel Painting

板面油画

Exercise

Passage 1 Georgia O Keeffe And Her Art

Passage 2 Mark Weber 

Passage 3 Museum’S Space Problems 

Passage 4 The Whitney Museum Of American Art 

Unit Two雕塑

Lesson 1 Sculpture Of The United States

美国雕塑

Lesson 2 Italian Sculpture Today——DiVersity Of Approach

To The Central Problem

今日的意大利雕塑——对中心问题个别不同的探讨

Lesson 3 Direct Carving

直接雕刻

Lesson 4 Louise Nevelson’S Art

论内凡尔森的废料艺术

Exercise

passage 1 Frederic Remington——An Artist Of The Western America

Passage 2 Marisol Escobar 

Passage 3 Louise Nevelson And Her Environmental Sculpture 

Unit Three设计理论

Lesson 1 A History Of Design

设计史

Lesson 2 What Is A Designer?

什么是设计师? 

Exercise

Passage 1 Design And Culture

Passage 2 Asian Design 

Unit Four环境设计

Lesson 1 A New Housing Form In The United States

美国新建筑形式

Lesson 2 City Reforms In The United States

美国城市改革

Lesson 3 City In The United States

美国城市

Lesson 4 Hotels In The United States

美国旅馆

Lesson 5 The Furniture Of The Early English Colonists

早期英国殖民者的家具

Exereise

Passage 1 Rockefeller Center 

Passage 2 Art Deco 

Passage 3 Rehabilitation OfThe City 

Passage 4 The First Subway Of New York 

Unit Five民艺

Lesson 1 The Basketry Of Northern Callfornia

土著美国人的编织工艺

Lesson 2 How Shadow Puppets Are Made

怎样制作皮影

Lesson 3 Quilts In Colonial America

殖民地时期美国的被子

Exercise

Passage 1 Grandma Moses(1)

Passage 2 Grandma Moses(2)

Part Three：Music And Dance音乐及舞蹈

Unit One音乐

Lesson 1 The Piano

钢琴

Lesson 2 Jazz(1)

爵士乐

Lesson 3 John Cohrane’S Study In Jazz

评科尔特兰在爵士音乐领域的探索

Lesson 4 Popular Art

音乐史：评意大利威尔迪的歌剧

Lesson 5 Ragtime

论拉格泰姆黑人音乐

Exercise

Passage 1 The Cajun Music

Passage 2 Jazz(2)

Passage 3 Oratorio 

Passage 4 Ballad

Passage 5 Conducting 

Unit Two舞蹈

Lesson 1 Isadora Duncan

评伊萨多拉邓肯的舞蹈理论

Exercise

Passage 1 Dance：A Fusion Of Body，Mind，And Spirit

Passage 2 Isadora Duncan And Modern Dance

Passage 3 Lucinda Childs

Passage 4 Martha Graham(1)

Passage 5 Martha Graham(2)

Part Four：Drama And Film戏剧及影视

Unit One戏剧

Lesson 1 The Beginning Of Drama In Ancient Greece

古希腊戏剧的起源

Lesson 2 Luis Valdez And The Renaissance Of Mexican

American Theatre

评瓦尔德斯的复兴墨西哥风格的美国戏剧运动

Lesson 3Romeo And Juliet

罗密欧与朱丽叶

Exercise

Passage 1 Comic Art 

Passage 2 Drama-Setting The Stage 

Unit Two影视

Lesson 1 Film

电影的发展

Lesson 2 The Achievement Of David WGriflfith

评美国格里菲思在电影艺术创作中的成就

Exercise

Passage 1 Marx Brothers

Passage 2 Making A Film

Passage 3 The Director

Unit Three摄影

Lesson 1 Photograph And Art

论摄影与艺术

Lesson 2 The Modem Photographic Art

论当代摄影艺术

Exercise

Passage 1 Bathara Kasten And Her Photographs

Of Constructions

Passage 2 The Additives And Subtractive In Photograph 

Passage 3 Alice In Wonderment

附录一 专业词汇表

附录二 参考译文

参考书目

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