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

by François Jullien

Book Overview

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 surroundings.

Fran ois Jullien argues that this nonobjectifying approach stems from the painters' deeply held...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226415309
• ISBN13: 9780226415307
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"