The Worlds of Classical Chinese Aesthetics

By: Goldin, Paul R.

This book presents the foundations of classical Chinese aesthetic discourse - roughly from the Bronze Age to the early Middle Ages - with the following animating questions:

What is art?

Why do we produce it?

How do we judge it?

The arts that garnered the most theoretical attention during this time period were music, poetry, calligraphy, and painting, and this book considers the reasons why these four were privileged. Whereas...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032722983
• ISBN13: 9781032722986
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 184 Pages