商务印书馆与中国近代美术之发展

Relationship between the Commercial Press and the Development of Chinese Modern Art

作为中国第一家现代意义上的出版社,商务印书馆对中国近代美术的发展产生了重要影响。它成立专门的美术部门,延聘著名书画家主持其事;在著名期刊《东方杂志》上推出《中国美术专号》,足见其对美术之重视。商务印书馆积极组织出版美术教科书,为近代美术教育的发展做出了卓越的贡献。还出版了一批高质量、高品位的中西美术理论和美术史学著作,对中国近代美术史学的繁荣起了积极的促进作用。

As the first Press in China in the modern sense, Commercial Press has influenced the development of Chinese modern art in a significant way. It established the professional art department, and hired famous artists to take charge of it; it set Special Issue of Chinese Art in the famous periodical The Eastern Miscellany, which showed its emphasis on art. It organized to publish art textbooks, which made great contribution to the development of modern art education. It also published a set of books about Chinese and western a rt theory and art history, which promoted Chinese modern art historiography's growth.