Analyze, understand, and appreciate. "Living with Art" provides the tools to help students think critically about the visual arts. Using a wealth of examples, the first half of the text examines the nature, vocabulary, and elements of art, offering a foundation for students to learn to analyze art effectively. The latter half sets out a brief but comprehensive history of art, leading students to understand art within the context of its time and place of origin. High quality images from a wide range of periods and cultures bring the art to life, and topical essays throughout the text foster critical thinking skills. Taken together, all of these elements help students to better appreciate art as a reflection of the human experience and to realize that living with art is living with ourselves.

馬剋·蓋特雷恩（Mark Getlein）原本在紐約硃莉亞音樂學院學習音樂，但他很快就被紐約的藝術活動和豐富的博物館收藏深深地迷住瞭。他既是鋼琴傢，也是畫傢。作為作傢和策劃編輯，他參與開發瞭一係列開創性的大學文學與藝術課本，包括《藝術史》《非洲藝術史》《哈珀柯林斯世界文學》《朗曼英國文學選》和《朗曼世界文學選》等，本書是作者獨立編寫的最有名的藝術基礎概論課本。

王瀅，北京大學藝術學院藝術學專業研究生。曾為廣西師範大學齣版社編輯，現為自由職業者。曾參與翻譯《詹森藝術史》《MoMA 亮點：紐約現代藝術博物館精選作品350 件》和《世界藝術地圖》等。