Description: Great Image Has No Form, or On the Nonobject Through Painting, Hardcover by Jullien, Francois; Todd, Jane Marie (TRN), ISBN 0226415309, ISBN-13 9780226415307, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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. Franois 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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Book Title: Great Image Has No Form, or On the Nonobject Through Painting
Item Length: 9.3in
Item Height: 1.1in
Item Width: 6.3in
Author: François Jullien
Publication Name: Great Image Has No Form, or ON the Nonobject Through Painting
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication Year: 2009
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 18.5 Oz
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
