Tatarkiewicz's History of Aesthetics is an extremely comprehensive account of the development of European aesthetics from the time of the ancient Greeks to the 1700s. Published originally in Polish in 1962-7, it achieved bestseller status and acclaim as the best work of its kind in the world. The English translation of 1970-74 is a rare masterpiece. Covering ancient, medieval and modern aesthetics, Tatarkiewicz writes substantial essays on the views of beauty and art through the ages and then goes on to demonstrate these with extracts from original texts from each period. The authors he cites include Homer, Democritus, Plato, St Augustine, Boethius, Thomas Aquinas, Dante, William of Ockham, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Galileo, Bacon, Shakespeare and Rubens. His study is systematic and extremely wide, including the aesthetics of the archaic period, the classical period, Hellenistic aesthetics, Eastern Aesthetics, Western Aesthetics, the Renaissance, sixteenth-century visual arts, poetry and music, Italian, English, Spanish and Polish aesthetics of the sixteenth century, Baroque aesthetics, and theories of painting and architecture in the seventeeth century. 试译要求：译文流畅；专有名词翻译准确；稿件齐清定，无遗留问题。 试译时间：一周（从收到试译文件之日起计算）。 加入理想国译者大家庭，福利多多。 如果理想国编辑大大们对初次合作的译者反馈很好的话，就可以继续翻译他们的新书哦。能成为理想国长期合作的译者，稿费更高~大家加油吧！ 有其他问题，请联系jianghaoqian@yeeyan.com。 预期完成时间：1年

Wladyslaw Tatarkiewicz (1886–1981)，波兰人，华沙大学美学教授，著名哲学家。 另外，20世纪前半叶，Wladyslaw还是波兰最重要哲学期刊Przeglad Filozoficzny主编。