The Great Image Has No Form, Or On the Nonobject Through Painting
Author | : François Jullien |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2009-12 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0226415309 |
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In premodern China, painters used imagery not to mirror the world, but to evoke unfathomable experience. Considering this 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.