Contemplating the Beauty: Preliminary Thoughts on Chinese Artistic Thought

Author: Jiang Xun
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: In the chaotic and uncertain historical context of China's past century, to take the time to reflect on the life ideals and aesthetic principles that the ancient China once upheld and persisted in, one might even begin to doubt oneself. However, those jade, pottery, bronze, bamboo slips, silk paintings, stone carvings, Dunhuang, and landscapes are still vividly before our eyes. How could they not have passed through the turmoil of wars and conflicts, striving to gaze upward from the dark and somber depths of history, yearning for the eternal and unceasing radiance of beauty? And this work of [Contemplation on Beauty] is my promise to myself, a vow I have made to this nation.