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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.

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The Great Image Has No Form or On the Nonobject

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A Paperback / softback by François Jullien, Jane Marie Todd

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    Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
    Publication Date: 05/11/2012
    ISBN13: 9780226415314, 978-0226415314
    ISBN10: 0226415317

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    Book Synopsis
    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.

    Trade Review
    "This is one of those rare, precious, and necessary books that, once you have completed a first reading, you realize you have only just begun." (Magazine Litteraire)"

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