Aesthetics and Art: Traditional and Contemporary China in a Comparative Perspective

By Jianping Gao

Book Overview

To Begin With A Beautiful Line.- The Relationship Between Writing and Painting in Ancient China.- Significance of Analogy-Drawing Between Go and Painting.- Theoretical Significance of Painting as Performance.- Difficulties in Reading Images: Diversity and Internationality in Image Reception.- Who Are True Artists? -- An Art ?litism in Ancient China.- An Introduction to the Aesthetic Ideas of Confucius.- Man and His Relations with Society and Art: A Case Study of On Music.- The Original Meaning of the Chinese Character for "Beauty".- The "Aesthetics Craze" in China -- Its Cause and Significance.- Chinese Aesthetics: From 1978 to the present.- The Stories of Three Words.- Chinese Aesthetics in the Context of Globalization.- The Growth and Construction of Cultural Diversity in Cyberspace.- Traditional Culture: Salvation or Revitalization?.- The Beauty of a City: Thoughts from an Ecological Perspective.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3662566990
• ISBN13: 9783662566992
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"