Format:
Online Ressource (vii, 359 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Online-Ausg
ISBN:
0824861841
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9780824861841
Content:
"This singular work presents the most comprehensive and nuanced study available in any Western language of Chinese aesthetic thought and practice during the Six Dynasties (A.D. 220-589). Despite a succession of dynastic and social upheavals, the literati preoccupied themselves with both the sensuous and the transcendent and strove for cultural dominance. By the end of the sixth century, their reflections would evolve into a sophisticated system of aesthetic discourse characterized by its own rhetoric and concepts. - "Chinese Aesthetics will fill a gap in Western sinological studies of the period. It will appeal to scholars and students in premodern Chinese literary studies, comparative aesthetics, and cultural studies and will be a welcome reference to anyone interested in ancient Chinese culture."--BOOK JACKET
Content:
"Chinese Aesthetics will fill a gap in Western sinological studies of the period. It will appeal to scholars and students in premodern Chinese literary studies, comparative aesthetics, and cultural studies and will be a welcome reference to anyone interested in ancient Chinese culture."--BOOK JACKET
Content:
"This singular work presents the most comprehensive and nuanced study available in any Western language of Chinese aesthetic thought and practice during the Six Dynasties (A.D. 220-589). Despite a succession of dynastic and social upheavals, the literati preoccupied themselves with both the sensuous and the transcendent and strove for cultural dominance. By the end of the sixth century, their reflections would evolve into a sophisticated system of aesthetic discourse characterized by its own rhetoric and concepts
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description based on print version record
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Prologue:A historical overview of Six Dynasties aesthetics
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PART I: IMAGES AND REPRESENTATIONS: PAINTING, CALLIGRAPHY, AND GARDEN CONSTRUCTIONReplication and deception in calligraphy of the Six Dynasties period
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The essay on painting by Wang Wei (415-453) in context
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Xie He's 'Six laws' of painting and their Indian parallels
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A good place need not be a nowhere: the garden and utopian thought in the Six Dynasties
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PART II: WORDS AND PATTERNS: POETRY AND PROSEThe unmasking of Tao Qian and the indeterminacy of interpretation
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Crossing boundaries: transcendents and aesthetics in the Six Dynasties
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Literary games and religious practice at the end of the Six Dynasties: the Baguanzhai poems by Xiao Gang and his followers
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PART III: THE PARAMETERS OF SIX DYNASTIES AESTHETICS: MODES OF DISCOURSEShishuo xinyu and the emergence of aesthetic self-consciousness in the Chinese tradition
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Nature and higher ideals in texts on calligraphy, music, and painting
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The conceptual origins and aesthetic significance of 'shen' in Six Dynasties texts on literature and painting
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Online-Ausg.
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Chinese aesthetics
Language:
English
