Aesthetics Three Books (The Journey of Beauty): The Journey of Beauty

Author: Li Zehou
Publisher:
Publish Date: 1999-01-01
Features: Aesthetics Three Books collects three works on aesthetics. The Journey of Beauty provides a macroscopic and bird's-eye view of Chinese literature and art over thousands of years, proposing important concepts such as "Dragon Flying and Phoenix Dancing," "Savage Beauty," "Confucianism and Taoism Complementarity," "Chu-Han Romanticism," "The Awakening of Humanity (Culture)," Buddha sculptures, and the three categories of landscape painting, among others, which were previously unexplored. Huaxia Aesthetics starts from traditional theories and delves deeper than the previous book into the non-Dionysian characteristics of Huaxia culture, which emphasizes the fusion of reason and desire. Four Lectures on Aesthetics is a systematic treatise on the author's aesthetic thought. Through concepts such as "accumulation" and "cultural psychological structure," it explains Marx's idea of "the naturalization of man" and constructs the author's own anthropological ontology philosophy, responding to various philosophical and aesthetic ideas from abroad.