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咖啡桌书(英语：coffee table book)是一本尺寸较大、通常带有硬封面的书，其用途是摆放在专为招待客人的桌子上，用来激发对话或打发时间。书中的内容主要是非小说类和以图片为主（类似照片集），页面主要由照片和插图组成，并附有说明文字和少量文字说明，而非长篇散文。由于这类书籍面向任何可能随意翻阅以求轻松阅读的人群，其内部分析往往较为基础且行话较少，与其他同主题书籍相比更为简单。正因如此，“咖啡桌书”这一术语有时也会被贬义地用来形容对该主题的肤浅处理。[1]

在数学领域中，咖啡桌书通常是一本文集形式的笔记本，内含由在特定地点聚会的社群或因共同科学兴趣而聚合的多个数学问题和定理。例如，20世纪30至40年代由利沃夫大学的数学家创作的《苏格兰书》（英语：Scottish Book)便是这样的一个例子。

历史

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According to different estimations, the 1992 book Sex by Madonna (pictured) is both the fastest-selling and best-selling coffee table book in publishing history.[2][3]

The concept of a book intended essentially for display over perusal was mentioned by Michel de Montaigne in his 1581 essay "Upon Some Verses of Virgil": "I am vexed that my Essays only serve the ladies for a common movable, a book to lay in the parlor window..."[4] Almost two centuries later, Laurence Sterne in his 1759 comic novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman advanced the more lighthearted view that "As my life and opinions are likely to make some noise in the world, and... be no less read than the Pilgrim's Progress itself- and, in the end, prove the very thing Montaigne dreaded his Essays should turn out, that is, a book for a parlour window..."[5]

Beginning in the late 1940s, publisher Albert Skira and a few others, such as Cailler and Editions Tisné, Éditions Mazenod, and Harry N. Abrams, began producing large folio and quarto (4to) format art books, illustrated with tipped-in color plates, that were significant in the development of coffee table books as known today.[6][7][8]

David Brower is sometimes credited with inventing the modern coffee table book.[9] While serving as executive director of the Sierra Club, he had the idea for a series of books that combined nature photography and writings on nature, with, as he put it, "a page size big enough to carry a given image’s dynamic. The eye must be required to move about within the boundaries of the image, not encompass it all in one glance." The first such book, This Is the American Earth, with photographs by Ansel Adams and others and text by Nancy Newhall, was published in 1960; the series became known as the "Exhibit Format" series, with 20 titles eventually published.[10]

The term "coffee table book" appeared in Arts Magazine in 1961,[11] and in the title of The Coffee Table Book of Astrology, published in 1962.[12]

They have also found uses in propaganda, such as a book on the life of East German leader Walter Ulbricht[13] and another on Albanian leader Enver Hoxha.[14]

As of 2011, Madonna's 1992 book Sex remained the most searched for out-of-print coffee table book.[15]

一种本质上以展示为主而非细读的书的概念，在米歇尔·德·蒙田1581年的散文《论维吉尔的几句诗》中已有提及：“我感到烦恼的是，我的《随笔》仅仅成了女士们用作普通摆设的移动物，一本放在客厅窗边的书……”[1] 几乎两个世纪后，劳伦斯·斯特恩在1759年的幽默小说《崔斯特拉姆·香迪绅士生平及观点》中提出了较为轻松的看法，他认为“既然我的生活和观点很可能在世上引起些许波澜，而且……不亚于《天路历程》本身的阅读量——最终证明了蒙田所惧怕的，他的《随笔》会变成那种书，即一本摆在客厅窗边的书……”[2]

自1940年代末起，出版商阿尔伯特·斯基拉与其他一些机构，如凯勒（Cailler）及泰斯内出版社（Editions Tisné）、马泽诺出版社（Éditions Mazenod）和哈利·N·艾布拉姆斯（Harry N. Abrams），开始制作大尺寸的双开本及四开本（4to）艺术书，这些书籍配有嵌入彩色平版插图，在现代咖啡桌书的发展中具有重要意义。[3][4][5]

大卫·布劳尔有时被认为是现代咖啡桌书的发明者。[6] 在担任锡耶拉俱乐部执行董事期间，他萌生了推出一系列结合自然摄影与自然文学的书籍的构想，正如他所说，“书页尺寸必须足够大，以呈现某一图片的动态效果。眼睛必须在图片的范围内移动，而非一瞥之间就将其全然收入视野。”第一本此类书籍《这就是美国大地》于1960年出版，书中收录了安塞尔·亚当斯等人的摄影作品以及南希·纽霍尔的文字；该系列后来被称为“展览格式”系列，最终共出版了20本书。[7]

“咖啡桌书”一词最早于1961年出现在《艺术杂志》中，[8] 并于1962年出现在《占星学咖啡桌书》的书名中。[9]

此外，这类书籍也曾被用于宣传，如一本介绍东德领袖瓦尔特·乌尔布里希特生平的书[10]以及另一部关于阿尔巴尼亚领袖恩维尔·霍查的书。[11]

截至2011年，玛丹娜1992年的书籍《性》仍是最常被搜索的绝版咖啡桌书。[12]

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Coffee table books have been featured in several areas of popular culture.

  • In the 1980s, British comedy duo Smith and Jones released The lavishly-tooled Smith and Jones Coffee Table Book[16]—its cover was designed to look as if the book could double as a coffee table.
  • The 1987 comedy Throw Momma from the Train has a running joke about one of the character's attempts to write a "coffee table book"; the book is a list of female celebrities he'd like to have sex with.
  • The fifth season (1993–1994) of the sitcom Seinfeld included a story arc involving Kramer wanting to write a coffee table book about coffee tables which would have legs built into the back cover and coasters built into the front cover, so the book itself could be turned into a small coffee table. Elaine Benes, who worked for Pendant Publishing, did not think that Kramer's idea was any good, but her boss (Mr. Lippman) learned about it from Kramer himself and turned it into a book, much to Elaine's dumbfounded surprise and dismay.
  • In the 2012 Family Guy episode "You Can't Do That on Television, Peter", Peter states that he, Joe Swanson and Glenn Quagmire are making a coffee table book of lesbian butts in 1980s jeans.
  • Late-night talk show Conan features a sketch called "Coffee Table Books That Didn't Sell", in which Conan O'Brien reviews several fake coffee table books with odd and nonsensical premises, such as Movie Stars with Their Eyes Pushed Closer Together.

See also

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Book sources

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References

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  1. ^ 讓你的咖啡桌磚塊書變成一道通往世界的窗. Si Balcón 小阳台. [2025-02-26] （中文（繁体））. 
  2. ^ Morton 2002，第54页
  3. ^ Horswill, Ian. Madonna's Sex remains the most wanted out of print book. News.com.au. September 25, 2015 [January 20, 2021]. （原始内容存档于November 8, 2020）. 
  4. ^ Essays by Michel de Montaigne. Oregonstate.edu. [2014-03-28]. （原始内容存档于2013-10-08）. 
  5. ^ The novels of Laurence Sterne (Volume 1) (PDF). 1873 [2014-03-28]. 
  6. ^ Chilvers, Ian and John Glaves-Smith (2015) A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art (3 ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780191792229 https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100510260 (accessed 25 August 2019)
  7. ^ Dufrêne, Bernadette (2002) L'édition d'art des années 1950-1970 : des promesses non tenues ?, Communication et langages. No. 134, 4 ème trimestre 22-38 pp. [Dufrêne, Bernadette (2002). The Art Edition of the 1950s and 1970s: Unfulfilled Promises? Communication and Languages, 134(4): 22-38.]
  8. ^ Corisande Evesque. Albert Skira et ses livres d’art (1948-1973). Histoire. 2015. ffdumas-01256888. PDF: https://dumas.ccsd.cnrs.fr/dumas-01256888/document (accessed 25 August 2019)
  9. ^ Harold Wood Presentation on H.R. 2715 - LeConte Memorial Lodge. Sierraclub.org. 2003-11-15 [2014-03-28]. （原始内容存档于2012-09-10）. 
  10. ^ Natural Visions - Nature on the Coffee Table. 
  11. ^ Arts Magazine, Volume 36. Art Digest Incorporated. 1961. 
  12. ^ National Review, Volume 13. National Review, Incorporated. 1962. 
  13. ^ Walter Ulbricht — ein Leben für Deutschland, excerpts from the German Propaganda Archive, Calvin University. Calvin.edu. [2014-03-28]. 
  14. ^ Enver Hoxha: 1908-1985. Tirana: Institute of Marxist-Leninist Studies at the Central Committee of the Party of Labour of Albania. 1986.
  15. ^ Flood, Alison. Madonna's Sex most sought after out-of-print book. The Guardian. 30 August 2011 [8 February 2017]. 
  16. ^ Jones, Griff Rhys; P. R. McGrath; Clive Anderson. The lavishly-tooled Smith and Jones Coffee Table Book. 1986. ISBN 0-00-637123-X. 
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