THE GREAT IMAGE HAS NO FORM, OR, ON THE NONOBJECT THROUGH PAINTING |
Book Category:
Art > Techniques > Painting
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Author:
Jullien, Francios; tr. By Jane Marie Todd
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Binding:
Hardcover
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ISBN 13:
9780226415307
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Price:
USD 48.00
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Publication Year:
2009
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Publisher Info
Carol Kasper,
University of Chicago Press,1427 E. 60th Street,
Chicago ,
Illinois - 60637,USA
Web: www.press.uchicago.edu Inquiry
Book Description
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, The Great Image Has No Form explores the "nonobject"--a notion exemplified by paintings that do not seek to represent observable surroundings.
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