Professor Patricia Mainardi教授,作为美国常青藤联盟艺术领域最有威望的专家教授之一,70多岁高龄的她此次来Special A 特优生,已经是暑期来华的第3个年头。
作为纽约大学的正牌Professor,Mainardi还曾在哈佛大学、耶鲁大学和普林斯顿大学任教,在艺术研究上收获颇丰,曾获得国家国际的众多奖项,收到过国家人文基金会、学术团体美国委员会、视觉艺术高级研究中心、国家艺术画廊国家艺术研究所的奖金与奖励、同时作为拥有意大利血统的美国人,因在艺术上的的辉煌成就,还在早年荣耀获封为意大利爵士……那么,跟这样一位咖级教授学习艺术课,会是怎样的一段人生体验呢?
就是这样一位老教授,这个暑假在Special A 特优生,给孩子们带来了精彩的艺术史课程,从古代到中世纪,从文艺复兴到现代,其中包含了学生很感兴趣的新旧石器时代、木乃伊文化、希腊艺术等等,用听课孩子们的话来说:“这简直是一场艺术的盛宴,老师讲的太棒了,而且很有趣。”而Professor Mainardi也是很喜欢中国从古至今的文化,每次必到的地方就是“国家博物馆”,而这次除了以往的线路,SA特优生的暑校负责老师更是带教授去听了京剧,并且去了一次年轻人都爱去的地方-798艺术区,教授对于中华文化的热爱溢于言表,激动的只会用一句话去形容了:“It’s amazing ……”
目前暑期的课程已经开始第二周,孩子们会在这样的氛围里继续着艺术的熏陶,跟着“大牛”教授继续他们的艺术之旅。而Professor Mainardi也表示她很喜欢在SA讲课,无论环境还是学生都是她很喜欢的,所以明年她还要来。
而教授本次前来也提到了她的新书《Another World》即将于2016年由耶鲁大学出版,而此次来到中国,孩子们也有福利了,Professor Mainardi亲自写了关于书的简介与具体信息分享给大家(下方简介出自教授亲笔,翻译来自SA特优生TOEFL项目负责人孙炜老师)
Patricia Mainardi, Another World
另一个世界
Professor Patricia Mainardi has a new book in production, to be published in 2016 by Yale University Press. It is entitled Another World, and it discusses the development of printed imagery in the Western World. Richly illustrated with 200 images, 40 of them in color, it reveals to twenty-first century readers the origins of our own world where we are bombarded with images on a daily basis, from television and the cinema, books, magazines and daily newspapers. This revolution took place during the nineteenth century, which was, in terms of printed imagery, “another world.” Between the late-eighteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth, more prints, illustrated books, magazines and newspapers were produced than in all previous centuries combined. Her book is about that tidal wave of imagery that ushered in the modern world where photographic imagery has swamped all the rest.
Patricia Mainardi教授的新书,《另一个世界》将于2016年由耶鲁大学出版社出版。该书收录了200幅画作,其中40幅为彩色画,针对西方印刷版画作的变迁进行探讨。该书向21世纪的读者展示出从19世纪开始,这段时间也是被印刷界称之为的“另一个世界”,我们世界中如何出现了在日常生活中的随处可见的图片,无论是电视到电影,图书,杂志还是每日新闻。从18世纪后期到20世纪初,人们生产出的印制品,带有插图的图书,杂志和报纸的数量比在此之前所有类似产品的总和还多。她的书中探讨了引领现代思潮的图片之风,并由此开启照片在我们生活中大行其道之势。
The book is organized chronologically to highlight the invention of each new illustrated print medium: caricature and lithography; the illustrated press and wood engraving; the sequential narration of comics; the proliferation of illustrated books; and popular prints. It reveals a vast quantity of visual imagery that is rich and rewarding, and explains how our world of images, from tabloid newspapers to comics to the nightly news, came into being.
该书以时间数序展开,并突出了每次图媒介质的重要变革,例如讽刺画和平板印刷,插图印刷和木板刻印,连环漫画,插图书籍的普及和流行印刷等。书中还提供了大量的相关资料来帮助我们了解这些内容的形成过程。
Patricia Mainardi is an art historian who specializes in the art of the modern period. Her books include Art and Politics of the Second Empire: The Universal Expositions of 1855 and 1867 (Yale University Press), which received the Charles Rufus Morey Award from the professional art history society of the United States as the best art history book of its year; The End of the Salon: Art and the State in the Early Third Republic (Cambridge University Press); and Husbands, Wives, and Lovers: Marriage and Its Discontents in Nineteenth-Century France (Yale University Press), an interdisciplinary study of the development of modern ideas of marriage. She has taught art history at Harvard, Princeton, Williams, NYU, and for many years chaired the Doctoral Program in Art History at the City University of New York. Her honors include, most recently, being named Chevalier (Knight) de l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the government of France, research fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and the Yale Center for British Art.
Patricia Mainardi是一位专攻现代艺术的历史学家。她的著作包括Art and Politics of the Second Empire: The Universal Expositions of 1855 and 1867 (耶鲁大学出版社出版)。该书荣获美国专业艺术史学会Charles Rufus Morey大奖;还有The End of the Salon: Art and the State in the Early Third Republic (牛津大学出版社);以及跨学科研究婚状况的Husbands, Wives, and Lovers: Marriage and Its Discontents in Nineteenth-Century France (耶鲁大学出版社)。她执教的学校有哈佛大学,普林斯顿大学,威廉姆斯大学,纽约大学等世界名校。他所获得的奖项有:最近刚刚被法国政府认可为Chevalier (Knight) l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques,美国国家人文基金会研究员,美国学术界委员会会员。