Aesthetic Contemplation: Preliminary Thoughts on Chinese Artistic Thought

Author: Jiang Xun
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: In the chaotic and bewildered historical context of China in the past century, to take the time to reflect on the life ideals and aesthetic principles that the ancient China once upheld and adhered to, one might even have to doubt themselves. 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 struggled to gaze upward through the ages of war and turmoil, striving to look up at the eternal and unceasing radiance of beauty? And this work of [Contemplation on Beauty] is my promise to myself, to this nation.