The Great Image Has No Form, or On the Nonobject through Painting
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The Great Image Has No Form, or On the Nonobject through Painting

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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">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 ...more
Hardcover, 288 pages
Published December 1st 2009 by University of Chicago Press (first published 2009)
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