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The Worlds of Classical Chinese Aesthetics

The Worlds of Classical Chinese Aesthetics

Goldin, Paul R.

Paperback

PhilosophyGeneral Eastern Religions

ISBN10: 1032722975
ISBN13: 9781032722979
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 12 2024
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.42 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English

This book presents the foundations of classical Chinese aesthetic discourse - roughly from the Bronze Age to the early Middle Ages - with the following animating questions:

What is art?

Why do we produce it?

How do we judge it?

The arts that garnered the most theoretical attention during this time period were music, poetry, calligraphy, and painting, and this book considers the reasons why these four were privileged. Whereas modern artists most likely consider themselves musicians or poets or calligraphers or painters or sculptors or architects, the pre-modern authors who produced the literature that established Chinese aesthetics prided themselves on being wenren, cultured people, conversant with all forms of art and learning. Other comparisons with Western theories and works of art are presented at due junctures.

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