Introduction to Aesthetics (2nd Edition)

Author: Zhang Fa
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Publish Date: 2004-10-01
Features: Based on critical thinking about the history of world aesthetics, this book particularly incorporates the essence of ancient Chinese aesthetics and the latest achievements of Western aesthetics. It restructures the principles of aesthetics according to the requirements of the contemporary disciplinary system. It offers new insights and refined discussions on important aesthetic issues, such as the nature of beauty, the aesthetic process, the basic types of beauty, cultural models of beauty, the anthropological origins of beauty, and the cosmological foundations of beauty. The book presents profound questions within the context of specific aesthetics and art, and rises to a certain theoretical level while explaining concrete aesthetics and art.