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The Story of Art E. H. Gombrich 978-0-7148-3247-0 |
我现在把大部头都放在在家晚上的时候读，但是这两年我阅读的效率递减，晚上有点困了有点不舒服了只要不是完美的阅读心情就不读书了，所以花了大半年的时间才把这本书读完（还是一本图文并茂的）。
首先我觉得作者超级厉害，不仅是对艺术历史的了解和熟悉，还是他可以把其中的来龙去脉心路历程都串起来。艺术也是一件很有逻辑的事情，艺术的产生、演变、发展是如此，艺术家在创造艺术作品的时候也是这样。再加上作者的口吻是极简谦逊的，也让人觉得很愿意听他“洗脑”。看到很厉害的作品，虽然有的是很熟悉的，但是还是会有很震惊的惊为天人的感觉。
There really is no such thing as Art. There are only artists – men and women, that is, who are favoured with the wonderful gift of balancing shapes and colours till they are ‘right’, and, rarer still, who possess that integrity of character which never rests content with half-solutions but is ready to forgo all easy effects, all superficial success for the toil and agony of sincere work. Artists, we trust, will always be born. But whether there will also be art depends to no small extent on ourselves, their public. By our indifference or our interest, by our prejudice or our understanding we may yet decide the issue. It is we who must see to it that the thread of tradition does not break and that there remain opportunities for the artist to add to the precious string of pearls that is our heirloom from the past.
每一章我都用荧光笔划重点做笔记了，但是现在也没什么好拿出来总结的。比较触动的是接近最后的时候，作者讲到艺术和艺术家和大众的关系。先有艺术还是先有艺术家，艺术家是一些很有技术很有能力的人，他们很厉害，但是艺术是大众决定的，所以是先有大众。这样的辩证甚至有一点哲学意味了。