Introduction to Aesthetics

Author: Zhang Fa
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Publish Date: 1999-04-01
Features: Based on critical thought in the history of world aesthetics, this book absorbs the essence of ancient Chinese aesthetics and Western new aesthetic achievements. It reconstructs the aesthetic principles system in accordance with the requirements of the contemporary discipline system. It offers new reflections and discussions on important aesthetic issues, such as the essence of beauty, the aesthetic process, the basic types of beauty, cultural models of beauty, the anthropological origins of beauty, and the cosmological basis of beauty. The book presents profound issues within the context of specific aesthetics and art, while also elevating the discussion of concrete aesthetics and art to a theoretical level.