Great Image Has No Form, Or on the Nonobject Through Painting

Informationen zum Autor Francois Jullien is professor of Chinese philosophy and literature at the University of Paris VII and director of the Institut Marcel Granet. Jane Marie Todd is a full-time translator and copy editor who has translated some forty books in the fields of art criticism! philosophy! history! biography/autobiography! literary criticism! and women's studies. Klappentext In premodern China, elite painters used imagery not to mirror the world around them, but to evoke unfathomable experience. Considering their art alongside the philosophical traditions that inform it, this book explores the "nonobject" - a notion exemplified by paintings that do not seek to represent observable surroundings. Zusammenfassung In premodern China! elite painters used imagery not to mirror the world around them! but to evoke unfathomable experience. Considering their art alongside the philosophical traditions that inform it! this book explores the "nonobject" - a notion exemplified by paintings that do not seek to represent observable surroundings.

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• Authors: Fran?ois Jullien, Francois Jullien, François Jullien, Francois (Universit Paris-Diderot) Jullien, Francois/ Todd Jullien, Jullien Francois
• Assisted by: Jane Marie Todd (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.11.2012
• EAN: 9780226415314
• ISBN: 978-0-226-41531-4
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Malerei und Gemälde, Kunsttheorie, Theory of art, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, ART / Criticism & Theory, Philosophy: aesthetics, Painting & paintings, Paintings and painting