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Times are changing. The new era, new economic lifestyle, and new technical conditions have also prompted profound changes in the literary and artistic life of the people. When literature and art encounter new situations, what should we do? Some Western scholars have put forward the views of "the end of literature" and "the end of art". This "view of the end" actually reflects the changes in the three relationships between literature and art and aesthetics, the relationship between literature and art and the media as its carrier, and the relationship between literature and art and the concepts it reflects. Therefore, literature and art must adapt to new situations, and understanding literature and art also requires new knowledge. The necessity of letting the people master the knowledge about literature and art, and letting the people understand the new situation of contemporary literature and art, is becoming more and more urgent nowadays. Use easy-to-understand language to teach literary and artistic knowledge. It is actually not easy to turn the crystallization of experts' research results into the literary and artistic common sense of the people. It is very difficult to be light-weighted, popular but not superficial, cutting-edge but not impetuous, profound but not obscure. The principle of organizing the "Literary and Art General Books Series" is to ask everyone to write short books. The authors invited by the "Literature and Art General Series" are all famous scholars in related fields in academia. They are well-educated and have an in-depth understanding of the ins and outs of the subject. At the same time, they are academically able to both get in and get out. The purpose of the "Literary and Art General Books Series" is to build bridges from professional academics to the people in a language that the people can understand.