乍暖还寒的暮冬北京,中国工艺美术史家田自秉先生停止了他从未间断过的思考。对我们这些晚辈后学来说,田先生是一座思想的大山。作为一位杰出的艺术史家,他三十年前出版的《中国工艺美术史》畅销不衰,几乎伴随着新时期成长起来的几代设计史学者在学术路途上的最初启蒙。在田先生数十年笔耕不辍的背后,是他殚精竭虑的学术生涯和工艺美术存现代中国的坎坷历程。田自秉先生出生在湖南石门的一个土家族家庭。虽然出身贫寒,但他在少 Twilight turns warm again Beijing, China’s history of art and craftsman Tian Zibing stop his never stopped thinking. For those of us who are later juniors, Mr. Tian is a mountain of ideas. As an outstanding art historian, the history of Chinese arts and crafts published thirty years ago has been sold well, almost with the initial enlightenment of several generations of design historians who grew up in the new era on the academic route. Behind Mr. Tian’s decades of pragmatism is his painstaking academic career and arts and crafts surviving the bumpy course of modern China. Tian Zibing was born in a Tujia family in Shimen, Hunan Province. Although born poor, but he is less