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給中小學生的藝術史【西方家庭必備,經典英語學習版】A Child’s History of Art

A Child’s History of Art

作者:維吉爾‧希利爾 Virgil Mores Hillyer

出版品牌:小樹文化

出版日期:2018-11-28

產品編號:9789865837983

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台灣唯一,經典英語學習版

跟著美國最會說故事的校長爺爺,一起擴充你的英語字彙!

全美中小學生指定讀物,西方家庭必備經典

50位教育人士、讀者一致推薦,國中小學生必讀「跨領域」、「知識性」讀物

 

◎台灣唯一,經典英語學習版,讓你從故事中擴充重要的英語字彙。

全球超過10,000,000萬人讀過的藝術史,遍及美國、韓國、日本、中國

◎獲選美國中小學最佳讀物

1924年首印後,不斷再版,至今仍然是美國卡爾維特學校的明星課程

 

世界這麼大、藝術看起來好難,要了解這些偉大藝術品,是不是覺得很難呢?

原來,藝術欣賞也可以這麼簡單有趣!

 

Q1:你知道,你在課桌椅上的塗鴉,可能是以後成為藝術家的基礎?

Q2:你知道,埃及人畫人像時,雖然人臉是側面對著我們,眼睛卻可以盯著我們看?

Q3:你知道,古羅馬人喜歡把半身像做得像真人一樣,就算有雙下巴或鷹勾鼻也會雕刻出來?

Q4:你知道,米開朗基羅的〈摩西像〉頭上刻了角,是因為早期《聖經》把「頭上的光環」翻譯成了「牛角」?

Q5:你知道,「哥德式建築」其實跟「哥德人」一點關係也沒有?

Q6:你知道,因為當時的教堂太多了,所以文藝復興式建築都是宮殿、辦公大樓或圖書館?

 

擅長將知識化做篇篇動人故事的校長爺爺,以孩子的視角、帶你搭時光機一起穿越古今與名畫家、雕塑家、建築師做朋友。嚴肅、艱深的藝術知識、建築概念,也瞬間變得親切可愛了!

 

【本書特色】

1. 美國知名校長爺爺帶你快樂學英文。

本書作者為美國知名的校長爺爺,運用符合912歲孩子能理解、簡單、有趣的英文用詞,描述對古今藝術的所見所聞。用經典作品學習英文,加強孩子的英文字彙、學習生活實用、正確的英文用語。

 

2. 西方家庭必備經典書

本書運用簡單、易懂的藝術概念,讓大人也能從書中發現自己所不知的美學知識、藝術家小故事。當孩子在學習上遇到問題與困難時,家長也可以利用這本書,解答孩子的疑惑。

 

3. 結合藝術知識和快樂博物館之旅

作者將藝術分為三大部分:繪畫、雕塑、建築,運用簡單、親切的方式講述枯燥的藝術概念與藝術史。讓孩子彷彿在書中拜訪了世界各地知名博物館、名建築,潛移默化培養孩子的美學概念。

 

4. 以孩子的視角進行描述

如果你把一枝鉛筆放到一個人手中,他絕對忍不住要畫些東西。不管他是在聽老師講課還是接電話,如果有本子,他總會在本子上畫些圓圈、臉蛋、三角形或正方形。沒有本子就在桌面上或牆上畫,總之他就是忍不住要畫點什麼。

想想看,哪本電話簿上不是塗滿了東西?我們把這叫做人之本性。只要是人,就會這麼做。

如今,動物也可以學習許多人類會做的事,但是畫畫是動物學不會的。

作者運用可愛、有趣的方式,並且用孩子能理解的話語與生活概念結合藝術知識,讓孩子快樂閱讀的同時,也能輕鬆,卻深度的了解。圖像性的思考模式,拉近孩子與知名藝術作品、概念的距離。

 

5. 以孩子能否理解為書寫標準

作者寫這套書時,將重點放在:知識講述要符合孩子的認知方式,並依此讓孩子建立藝術概念。所以在書中,作者並不著重在我們認為「重要」的藝術概念講解,而是從生活中的美學體驗敘述。這種與眾不同的思維,讓這套書變得更生動有趣。

維吉爾.希利爾(Virgil Mores Hillyer

    美國傑出教育家,畢生從事中小學教育,酷愛歷史和藝術,喜歡旅行。出生於麻州韋茅斯鎮。哈佛大學教育系畢業後,在紐約的白朗寧學校教了兩年書,隨後遷往巴爾地摩,擔任卡爾維特學校的第一任校長。希利爾創建的小學函授教育系統,即「卡爾維特學校體系」,惠及世界各地的政府雇員、領事、軍官和傳教士的子女。  

    當希利爾校長於1899年到美國卡爾維特學校(Calvert School)走馬上任時,他還是一個年僅24歲的年輕人。然而,他有天生的教學異能,了解孩子需要什麼,知道如何講孩子才能聽明白,以及孩子成長的規律。

    希利爾校長認為,孩子們寫作、閱讀和數學的基礎必須紮實。在此基礎上,他認為學生應當接受歷史、藝術、地理和科學的系統教育,意在培育熟悉周遭世界得全方位學生。希利爾深感傳統教科書的枯燥無味,立志為孩子編寫一套讀起來興味盎然的歷史、地理和藝術讀物,這便是這套書的由來。

1. The Oldest Pictures in the World

 

I WAS listening to the teacher, but I had my pencil in my hand. There were two little dots about an inch apart on my desk lid. Absentmindedly I twisted my pencil point into one dot and then into the other. The two dots became two little eyes. I drew a circle around each eye, then I joined the two circles with a half-circle that made a pair of spectacles.

The next day I made a nose and a mouth to go with the eye and spectacles.

The next day I finished the face and added ears and some hair.

The next day I added a hat.

The next day I added a body, with arms, legs, and feet.

The next day I went over the drawing again, bearing heavily on my pencil. Over and over again I followed the lines till they became deep grooves in my desk lid.

The next day my teacher caught me and I caught it!

The next day my father got a bill for a new desk and I got—Well, never mind what I got.

Perhaps he’s going to be an artist,” said my mother.

Heaven forbid!” said my father. “That would cost me much more than a new desk.” And heaven did forbid.

I know of a school that has a large wooden tablet in the hall for its pupils to draw upon. At the top of the tablet is printed:

 

IF YOU JUST MUST DRAW, DON’T DRAW ON YOUR DESK,

DRAW ON THIS TABLET.

 

If you put a pencil in any one’s hand, he just must draw something. Whether he is listening to a lesson or telephoning, he draws circles and faces or triangles and squares over the pad—if there is a pad. Otherwise he draws on the desk top or the wall, for he just must draw something. Have you ever seen any telephone pad that was not scribbled upon? We say that’s human nature. It shows you are a human being.

Now, animals can learn to do a good many things that human beings can do, but one thing an animal can’t learn is to draw. Dogs can learn to walk on two legs and fetch the newspaper. Bears can learn to dance. Horses can learn to count. Monkeys can learn to drink out of a cup. Parrots can learn to speak. But human beings are the only animals that can learn to draw.

Every boy and girl who has ever lived has drawn something at some time. Haven’t you? You have drawn, perhaps, a horse or a house, a ship or an automobile, a dog or a cat. The dog may have looked just like a cat or a cat-erpillar, but even this is more than any animal can do.

Even wild men who lived so long ago that there were no houses, only caves, to live in—men who were almost like wild animals, with long hair all over their bodies—could draw. There were no paper or pencils then. Men drew pictures on the walls of their caves. The pictures were not framed and hung on the walls. They were drawn right on the walls of the cave and on the ceiling too.

Sometimes the pictures were just scratched or cut into the wall and sometimes they were painted in afterward. The paints those men used were made of a colored clay mixed with grease, usually simply red or yellow. Or perhaps the paint was just blood, which was red at first and then turned almost black. Some of the pictures look as if they had been made with the end of a burned stick as you might make a black mark with the end of a burned match. Other pictures were cut into bone—on the horns of deer or on ivory tusks.

Now, what do you suppose these cave men drew pictures of? Suppose I asked you to draw a picture of anything—just anything. Try it. What you have drawn is probably one of five things. A cat is my first guess, a sail-boat or an automobile is my second, a house is my third guess, a tree or a flower is my fourth, and a person is my fifth. Are there any other kinds?

Well, the cave men drew pictures of only one kind of thing. Not men or women or trees or flowers or scenery. They drew chiefly pictures of animals. And what kind of animals, do you suppose? Dogs? No, not dogs. Horses? No, not horses. Lions? No, not lions. They were usually big animals and strange animals. But they were pretty well drawn, so that we know what the animals looked like. Here is a picture a cave man drew thousands of years ago.

You know it’s a picture of some animal, and it’s one a cat or a caterpillar. It is some animal of the kind they had in those days. It looks like an elephant and it was a kind of elephant—a huge elephant. But its ears were not big like our elephants’ ears and it had long hair. Elephants now have skin or hide, but hardly any hair. This animal we call a mammoth. It had long hair because the country was cold in those days and the hair kept the animal warm. And it was much, much bigger even than our elephants.

There are no mammoths alive now, but men have found their bones and they have put these bones together to form huge skeletons. We still call any very big thing “mammoth.” You’ve probably heard of Mammoth Cave in Kentucky. It was called Mammoth, not because mammoths lived in it, because they didn’t, but just because it is such a huge cave.

The cave men drew other animals besides the mammoth. One was the bison, a kind of buffalo. You can see a picture of a buffalo on our five-cent piece. It looks something like a bull. A little girl had gone to a cave is Spain with her father, who was searching for arrow-heads. While he was looking on the ground, she was looking at the ceiling of the cave and she saw what she thought was a herd of bulls painted there. She called out, “See the bulls!” and her father, thinking she had seen real bulls, cried: “Where? Where?”

Other animals they drew were like those we have now—reindeer, deer with big antlers, and bears and wolves.

It was quite dark in the caves where the cave men drew these pictures, for of course there were no windows, and the only light was a smoky flame from a kind of lamp. Why, then, did they make pictures at all? Such pictures couldn’t have been just for wall decorations, like those you have on your walls, because it was so dark in the cave. We think the pictures were made just for good luck, as some people put a horseshoe over the door for good luck. Or perhaps they were to tell a story or make a record of some animal the cave man had killed. But perhaps the cave man just had to draw something, as boys and girls nowadays draw pictures on the walls of a shed or even sometimes on the walls of their own houses or, worse yet, on their desk tops.

The pictures made by these wild men—bearded and hairy cave men—are the oldest pictures in the world, and the artists who made them have been dead thousands of years. Can you think of anything you might ever make that would last as long as that?

PART I PAINTING

1 The Oldest Pictures in the World

2 What’s Wrong with This Picture?

3 Palace Picture Puzzles

4 April Fool Pictures

5 Jars and Jugs

6 Pictures of Christ and Christians

7 The Shepherd Boy Painter

8 The Angel-like Brother

9 Born Again Painters

10 Sins and Sermons

11 A Great Teacher and a “Greatest” Pupil

12 The Sculptor Who Painted Pictures

13 Leonardo da Vinci

14 Six Venetians

15 A Tailor’s Son and a Master of Light

16 Flemings

17 Two Dutchmen

18 Ü and Jr.

19 Forgotten and Discovered

20 Speaking of Spaniards

21 Landscapes and Sign-boards

22 Stirring Times

23 A Late Start

24 Three Englishmen Who were Different

25 Some Very Poor Painters

26 The Most Important Person

27 Post-impressionism

28 Nons and Surs

29 More Modern Painters

 

PART II SCULPTURE

1 The First Sculpture

2 Giants and Pygmies

3 Cherubs and Kings

4 Marbles

5 Standing Naturally

6 The Greatest Greek Sculptor

7 After Phidias

8 Plaster Casts

9 Tiny Treasures

10 Baked Earth Sculpture

11 Busts and Reliefs

12 Stories in Stones

13 The Gates of Paradise

14 A Treasure Hunter and a Secret

15 Next Best and Best

16 Four in One

17 Cellini Makes His Perseus

18 A.M.—or After Michelangelo

19 An Italian and a Dane

20 On a Postage Stamp

21 A Lion, a Saint, and an Emperor

22 A Handsome Present

23 Thoughts for Thinkers

24 Modern Sculpture

 

PART III ARCHITECTURE

1 The Oldest House

2 Houses for Gods

3 Mud Pie Palaces and Temples

4 The Perfect Building

5 Woman’s Style Building

6 New Styles in Buildings

7 Rome was not Built in a Day

8 Trimmings

9 Early Christian

10 Eastern Early Christians

11 Lights in the Dark

12 Round Arches

13 Castles

14 Pointing Toward Heaven

15 In Praise of Mary

16 Country Cathedrals

17 Here and There

18 Open Sesame

19 Dome Trouble

20 Backward and Forward

21 The Homes of England

22 Trade-marks

23 Breaking Rules

24 The English Renaissance

25 From Huts to Hourse

26 Al and Ol

27 Rainbows and Grape-vines

28 The Scrapers of the Sky

29 New Ideas

書籍代號:1HAA0074

商品條碼EAN:9789865837983

ISBN:9789865837983

印刷:黑白

頁數:432

裝訂:平裝

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