The Great Image Has No Form, Or On the Nonobject Through Painting

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.


The Great Image Has No Form, Or On the Nonobject Through Painting
Language: en
Pages: 297
Authors: François Jullien
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-12 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-07-15 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-07-09 - Publisher: Northwestern University Press

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Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-02-24 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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