CNPIEC Bookstore book listing
August 6, 2010 Filed under Book
The China National Publication Import and Export Corporation’s (CNPIEC) bookstore recommends these new arrivals to Beijing Today readers.
The Story of Art
By E. H. Gombrich, 688pp, Phaidon, 299 yuan
Renowned not only as the most concise introduction to art history but also as a classic of art historical literature, this book reflects the vast knowledge, insights and expertise of one of the 20th century’s greatest art historians and thinkers. Extensively illustrated, it treats the history of art – both chronologically and geographically – as a continuous unfolding story.
Michael Jackson: Number Ones
By Michael Jackson, 127pp, Alfred Publishing Company, 209 yuan
Michael Jackson’s album, Number Ones, features a new single, “One More Chance.” There are 17 more songs on the album and they are among Jackson’s top hits. Alfred Music Publishing presents this greatest hits matching songbook that features stunning full-color photos of Michael and piano, vocal and guitar arrangements of all 18 songs.
The Philistine Controversy
By Dave Beech and John Roberts, 288pp, Verso, 99 yuan
Conventionally, the philistine is assumed to have no appreciation of art and culture. But in this fascinating re-evaluation of its excluded identity, Dave Beech and John Roberts address the philistine not as an empirical phenomenon but as a relational category that operates between art and anti-art, aesthetics and anti-aesthetics, arguing that the philistine cuts to the core of art in a divided culture.
(By He Jianwei)
