The Great Image Has No Form, or on the Nonobject Through Painting

by François Jullien (Author), François Jullien (Author), Jane Marie Todd (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2012

  $44.22

  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, this book explores the nonobject - a notion exemplified by paintings that do not seek to represent observable surroundings.