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Chinese aesthetics : the ordering of literature, the arts, and the universe in the Six Dynasties / edited by Zong-qi Cai.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aesthetics.
- Chinese literature--220-589--History and criticism.
- Chinese literature.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 359 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, [2004]
- Summary:
- This singular work presents the most comprehensive and nuanced studies available in any Western language of Chinese aesthetic thought and practice during the Six Dynasties (A.D. 220-589). A prologue details the historical context in which Six Dynasties aesthetics arose and sketches out its major stages of development. The ten essays that follow bring fresh perspectives to bear on important writings on literature, music, painting, calligraphy, and gardening. Grounded in close readings of primary texts, they reveal the complex, dynamic interplay between life and art, the sensuous and the metaphysical, and the artistic and the philosophical/religious that lies at the heart of the aesthetic thought and practice of the time.
- Contents:
- A historical overview of Six Dynasties aesthetics / Zong-Qi Cai
- Replication and deception in calligraphy of the Six Dynasties period / Robert E. Harrist Jr.
- The essay on painting by Wang Wei (415-453) in context / Susan Bush
- Xie He's 'Six laws' of painting and their Indian parallels / Victor H. Mair
- A good place need not be a nowhere: the garden and utopian thought in the Six Dynasties / Shuen-Fu Lin
- The unmasking of Tao Qian and the indeterminacy of interpretation / Kang-I Sun Chang
- Crossing boundaries: transcendents and aesthetics in the Six Dynasties / Rania Huntington
- Literary games and religious practice at the end of the Six Dynasties: the Baguanzhai poems by Xiao Gang and his followers / François Martin
- Shishuo xinyu and the emergence of aesthetic self-consciousness in the Chinese tradition / Wai-Yee Li
- Nature and higher ideals in texts on calligraphy, music, and painting / Ronald Egan
- The conceptual origins and aesthetic significance of 'shen' in Six Dynasties texts on literature and painting / Zong-Qi Cai.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0824827910
- OCLC:
- 54537099
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