The Great Image Has No Form, or on the Nonobject Through Painting - Softcover

Jullien, Francois

 
9780226415314: The Great Image Has No Form, or on the Nonobject Through Painting
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0226415317 ISBN 13: 9780226415314
Verlag: The University of Chicago Press, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

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.

François Jullien argues that this nonobjectifying approach stems from the painters’ deeply held belief in a continuum of existence, in which art is not distinct from reality. Contrasting this perspective with the Western notion of art as separate from the world it represents, Jullien investigates the theoretical conditions that allow us to apprehend, isolate, and abstract objects. His comparative method lays bare the assumptions of Chinese and European thought, revitalizing the questions of what painting is, where it comes from, and what it does. Provocative and intellectually vigorous, this sweeping inquiry introduces new ways of thinking about the relationship of art to the ideas in which it is rooted.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

François 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. 

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Verlag
The University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226415317
ISBN 13 
9780226415314
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
288
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