A Preliminary Discussion on Chinese Artistic Thought: Contemplation on Beauty

Author: Jiang Xun
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: In the turbulent and uncertain historical context of China over the past century, to take the time to reflect on the life ideals and aesthetic principles that the ancient China once upheld and insisted upon, 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 ages of war and turmoil, striving to gaze upward, gazing upward at the eternal and unceasing radiance of beauty? And this work of [Contemplation on Beauty] is my promise to myself and to this nation.