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

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 title 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 title explores the 'nonobject' - a notion exemplified by paintings that do not seek to represent observable surroundings.

Product details

• Authors: Fran?ois Jullien, Francois Jullien, François Jullien, Francois (Universit Paris-Diderot) Jullien
• Assisted by: Jane Marie Todd (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2009
• EAN: 9780226415307
• ISBN: 978-0-226-41530-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Theory of art, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, ART / Criticism & Theory, Philosophy: aesthetics, Painting & paintings, Paintings and painting