Spirit of Original Chinese Art

Author: Zhang Xiaoling
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: Comrade Zhang Xiaoling's book The Spirit of Chinese Primitive Art is a notable achievement in the study of primitive art by young Chinese scholars in recent years. This book was completed under the guidance of Comrade Wang Zhaowen, who edited A History of Chinese Art·Primitive Volume. Comrade Zhang Xiaoling was also Wang Zhaowen's doctoral student, known for his diligent studies and outstanding performance. During his thesis writing period, I was commissioned by Comrade Wang Zhaowen and the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Arts to supervise Comrade Zhang Xiaoling's doctoral dissertation. This book has the following characteristics: The author of this book devoted great effort to extensive field investigations of ancient Chinese art along the Yangtze and Yellow River basins, as well as in Yunnan and Guizhou, and wrote the book based on a wealth of practical materials. The content includes the methodology of primitive art research, the aesthetic consciousness of prehistoric humans and the emergence, development, and evolution of art, as well as its connotations, functions, creative behavior, and aesthetic mentality. The author has extensively absorbed Western modern theories on primitive thought and primitive art, conducting valuable explorations in areas that previous scholars had not paid attention to.