Aesthetics: Four Lectures Revised Illustrated Edition

Author: Li Zehou
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Publishing Date: 2001-11-01
Features: Professor Li Zehou once delivered four influential lectures on aesthetics, which were revised and supplemented to become this volume, "Four Lectures on Aesthetics." Unlike other obscure and profound aesthetic monographs, this book is a popular reading for ordinary readers. Like his renowned work "The Journey of Beauty," it boasts a broad perspective and clear viewpoints. It is now accompanied by exquisite illustrations, guiding readers into the splendid palace of aesthetics. The entire book is divided into four parts, answering four questions in sequence: What is aesthetics? What is beauty? What is aesthetic feeling? What is art? With concise and powerful, highly condensed prose, the author cites various sources and speaks engagingly, leading readers through careful reading and deep reflection to enter the splendid palace of aesthetics. This revised illustrated edition is based on the author, Professor Li Zehou's, "Three Books on America," with all the text newly corrected. The selection of illustrations in the book focuses on contemporary works to highlight its forward-looking features for the 21st century, forming a complete, unified, and richly diverse aesthetic landscape together with the revised illustrated editions of "The Journey of Beauty" and "Chinese Aesthetics."