本教材的编写是以西方艺术与设计理论史各时期具有代表性的理论文章作为阅读文本,并为每篇课文补写汉语导读和注解。从第九篇选文开始逐步增写英文注解,以使本教材适应于专业理论课程的双语教学。每篇选文后面的“阅读本文的参考读物”,一方面是向读者提供编者写作注解时所采用的参考书目,另一方面是向读者提出对“西方设计理论史”课程所需书目控制的基本要求。为了让读者熟悉西方学者的研究方式,全部的选文均保留原作者、译者或编者的英文注释,插图编号及说明也按照原著面貌保留。书后附有中英文索引,方便读者查找专业术语和相关人物。
本教材在课程设置的衔接上,要求读者应当修完“西方艺术史”(包括建筑史和设计史)、“艺术概论”和“设计美学”等专业理论课程,英语水平要求相当于“大学英语”四级程度。既可用于设计专业英语精读课程,也可用作专业英语泛读材料;还可用于“设计理论”或者“西方设计经典文献导读”课程的双语教学。
- UNIT 1 MARCUS VITRUVIUS POLLIO
- “The Origins of the Three Otders,and the Proportions of the Corinthian Capital”(c.27 BC),from The Ten Books on Architecture
- UNIT 2 CENNINO D’ANDREA CENNINI
- “Methods of Casting”(c.1400),from The Craftman’s Handbdbook.
- UNIT 3 GIORGIO VASARI
- “Preface to the Third Part”(1550),from The Lives of the MOst Excellent Painters,Sculptors,and Architects.
- UNIT 4 WILLAM HOGARTH
- “Preface”(1753),from TheAnalysis of Beauty.
- UNIT 5 A.WELBY PUGIN
- “on MetaL-worr”(1841),from The True Principles of Pointed or Christian Architecture.
- UNIT 6 GOTTFRIED SEMPER
- “Science,Art,and industry”(1852),from Gottfried Semper: The Four Elements of Architecture and Other Writings.
- UNIT 7 OWEN JONES
- “General Princlples in the Arrangement of Form and Colour in Architecture and the Decorative Arts”(1856),rom The Gram-mar of Ornament.
- UNIT 8 JOHN RUSKIN
- “Modem Manufacture and Design”(1859),from The Two Paths:Being Lectures on Art,and Its Application to Decoration and Manufacture.
- UNIT 9 WILLIAM MORRIS
- “The Lesser Arts”(1877),from Wlliam Morris: Selected Writings andDesigns.
- UNIT 10 ALOIS RIEGL
- “The Geometric Style”(1893),from Prob lems of style:Foundations for a History Of Ornament.
- UNIT 11 ADOLF LOOS
- “Ornament and Crime”(1908),from Pro-grams and Manifestoes on 20th-Century Architecture
- UNIT 12 WALTER GROPIUS
- “The Theory and Organization of the Bau-hans”(1923),from Idee und Aufbau des Staatlichen Bauhauses Weimar
- UNIT 13 LE CORBUSIER
- “Type-Needs:Yype-Furniture”(1925),from The Decorative Art of Today.
- UNIT 14 HENRI FOCILLON
- “Forms in the Realm of Space”(1934),from The Life of Forms in Art
- UNIT 15 SIBYL MOHOLY-NAGY
- “Introduction”(1953),from Paul Klee’s Pedagogical Sketchbook
- UNIT 16 NIKOLAUS PEVSNER
- “Art and Industry”(1968),from The Sources of Modern Architecture and Design.
- UNIT 17 E.H.GOMBRICH
- “Motifsand Meanings”(1979),from The Sense Of Order: A Study in the Psychology of Decorative Art.
- UNIT 18 ADRIAN FORTY
- “Design,Designers and the Literature of Design”(1986),from OBiects of Desire:Design and Society since 1750.
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