The Great Image Has No Form, or On the Nonobject through Painting

François Jullien (Universit Paris-Diderot), Jane Marie Todd

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University of Chicago Press
01 December 2009

Theory of art; Painting & paintings; Philosophy: aesthetics

In premodern China, elite painters used imagery not to mirror the world around them, but to evoke unfathomable experience. Considering their art alongside the philosophical traditions that inform it, The Great Image Has No Form explores the “nonobject”—a notion exemplified by paintings that do not seek to represent observable surroundings.

François Jullien argues that this nonobjectifying approach stems from the painters’ deeply held belief in a continuum of existence, in which art is not distinct from reality. Contrasting this perspective with the Western notion of art as separate from the world it represents, Jullien investigates the theoretical conditions that allow us to apprehend, isolate, and abstract objects. His comparative method lays bare the assumptions of Chinese and European thought, revitalizing the questions of what painting is, where it comes from, and what it does. Provocative and intellectually vigorous, this sweeping inquiry introduces new ways of thinking about the relationship of art to the ideas in which it is rooted.

By: François Jullien (Universit Paris-Diderot)
Translated by: Jane Marie Todd
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 2nd ed.
Dimensions: Height: 24mm, Width: 17mm, Spine: 2mm
Weight: 624g
ISBN: 9780226415307
ISBN 10: 0226415309
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 01 December 2009
Audience: College/higher education , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Francois Jullien is professor of Chinese philosophy and literature at the University of Paris VII and director of the Institut Marcel Granet. Jane Marie Todd has translated many books for the University of Chicago Press, including The Forbidden Image, by Alain Besancon, and Conversations with Picasso, by Brassai.

Reviews for The Great Image Has No Form, or On the Nonobject through Painting

This is one of those rare, precious, and necessary books that, once you have completed a first reading, you realize you have only just begun. -- Magazine Litteraire