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文学与艺术

本文是一篇说明文。文章是对一本书的介绍，主要介绍了印刷书籍和阅读对人类的重要意义。

Reading Art: Art for Book Lovers is a celebration of an everyday object — the book, represented here in almost three hundred artworks from museums around the world. The image of the reader appears throughout history, in art made long before books as we now know them came into being. In artists’ representations of books and reading, we see moments of shared humanity that go beyond culture and time.

《阅读艺术：书籍爱好者的艺术》是对日常物品——书籍的庆祝，在这里，来自世界各地博物馆的近三百件艺术品中都有所体现。读者的形象出现在历史上，出现在我们现在所知道的书籍出现之前很久的艺术中。在艺术家对书籍和阅读的表现中，我们看到了超越文化和时间的共同人性时刻。

In this “book of books,” artworks are selected and arranged in a way that emphasizes these connections between different eras and cultures. We see scenes of children learning to read at home or at school, with the book as a focus for relations between the generations. Adults are portrayed (描绘) alone in many settings and poses — absorbed in a volume, deep in thought or lost in a moment of leisure. These scenes may have been painted hundreds of years ago, but they record moments we can all relate to.

在这本“书中之书”中，艺术品的选择和排列方式强调了不同时代和文化之间的联系。我们看到孩子们在家或学校学习阅读的场景，这本书是代际关系的焦点。成年人在许多场景和姿势中都是独自被描绘的——全神贯注于一本书，陷入沉思，或者迷失在闲暇的时刻。这些场景可能是几百年前画的，但它们记录了我们都能感同身受的时刻。

Books themselves may be used symbolically in paintings to demonstrate the intellect (才智), wealth or faith of the subject. Before the wide use of the printing press, books were treasured objects and could be works of art in their own right. More recently, as books have become inexpensive or even throwaway, artists have used them as the raw material for artworks — transforming covers, pages or even complete volumes into paintings and sculptures.

书籍本身可以在绘画中象征性地用来展示主体的智力、财富或信仰。在印刷机广泛使用之前，书籍是珍贵的物品，本身就可以成为艺术品。最近，随着书籍变得便宜甚至被丢弃，艺术家们将它们用作艺术品的原材料——将封面、页面甚至整卷书变成绘画和雕塑。