无论中外,凡涉及美术史方面的书籍,读者总是很少的。事实上,这类书籍的发行往往限制在一个极小的学术圈子里。不要说一般的读者,就是专门的美术家、批评家平日里也很少去看此类书籍,除非有人要撰写相关的书籍或文章,才会出现例外。面对这样的现实情况,我们在着手编辑《新中国美术60年》时,有意回避了传统美术史的写作模 No matter at home and abroad, readers who are involved in the history of art are few and far between. In fact, the distribution of such books is often limited to a very small academic circle. Not to mention the average reader, a specialized artist, critics seldom visit such books on weekdays, except when someone writes a related book or article. Faced with this reality, when we started editing the “New China 60 Years of Art,” we deliberately avoided the traditional model of art writing