工艺美术的产生与人类的出现几乎是同步的。对工艺美术史进行研究,其实质就是在对人类文明的发展、演变进行研究和记录。自人类出现后的百万年中,人们创造的海量的工艺美术作品分布在全球各地。每一件工艺美术作品都是人类文明发展的重要载体。因此,工艺美术发展的历史不仅仅是体现人类成熟掌握材料技能、征服自然环境强大能力的见证,更为重要的是为人类提供了人类社会发展方式的证据。张夫也著作的《外国工艺美术史(修订版)》一书详尽地介绍 The emergence of arts and crafts and human appearance is almost synchronized. To study the history of arts and crafts, the essence is to study and record the development and evolution of human civilization. In the millions of years since the advent of humankind, vast quantities of arts and crafts created by people have been distributed all over the world. Each piece of arts and crafts is an important carrier of the development of human civilization. Therefore, the history of the development of arts and crafts not only reflects the mature knowledge of human material skills to conquer the powerful natural environment, witness, more importantly, provides human evidence of the development of human society. Zhang Fu’s book “History of Foreign Arts and Crafts (Revised Edition)” a book detailed description