Description
| Product ID: | 9781032722979 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Worlds of Classical Chinese Aesthetics |
| Authors: | Author: Paul R. Goldin |
| Page Count: | 184 |
| Subjects: | Philosophy, Philosophy, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Philosophy: aesthetics, History of ideas, Non-Western philosophy, Philosophy: aesthetics, History of ideas, China |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This book presents the foundations of classical Chinese aesthetic discourse - roughly from the Bronze Age to the early Middle Ages - and considers the reasons why music, poetry, calligraphy and painting were the arts that garnered the most theoretical attention during this period. 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. Key Features
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| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2024-03-12 |
