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THE GREAT IMAGE HAS NO FORM, OR, ON THE NONOBJECT THROUGH PAINTING
THE GREAT IMAGE HAS NO FORM, OR, ON THE NONOBJECT THROUGH PAINTING
Book Category:
Art > Techniques > Painting
Author:
Jullien, Francios; tr. By Jane Marie Todd
Binding:
Hardcover
ISBN 13:
9780226415307
Price:
USD 48.00
Publication Year:
2009

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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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