Description
Book SynopsisThe purpose of Chinese Philosophy and Contemporary Aesthetics is simple and straightforward: to discuss empty, nothing, opening, white, nature color, blankness, and different delicate senses, in ink-water painting and calligraphy, around discourses of poetics, philosophy ideas, and art critics.
Because xu has inner plasticity and re-generation, which are crucial for its aesthetic discourse, the relation between nature or naturalness and emptiness approaches a fundamental question of modernitythe relation between event revolution and silent transformation.
Table of ContentsList of Figures – Acknowledgments – Introduction: Infra-White—An Impossible Beginning – Color and White, the Blank Canvas: The Reverse Reconstruction of Non-Dimension – Remnant and White, Color and Blankness, Qi and White – Empty and White, Empty—Empty—Substance—Substance, the Empty Room Filled with Light – The White Layout of the "Woodcutters Fighting for the Path": The Ethics of Remnant Yielding – Jade and White, Snow and White, Light and White – "Black-and-Blankism" and the Silent Transformation of Invisibility – Appendix: The Ink Art of Chen Guangwu: Fasting of the Mind and Interval-Blankness of Chora – Index.
