Artistic style is related and, in fact, analogous to individual human beings’ mien. The exploration of it teems with conundrums — including questions regarding its source, constituents, and patterns of transformation — that have long beset the world of academia. This book offers an in-depth analysis of pre-modern Chinese discourses on artistic styles, especially the concept of Vitality-Charm therein. Taking an interdisciplinary approach including aesthetics, stylistics, art history, and socio-cultural history, discussions in the book tackles the said conundrums about vitality-charm and a number of related topics through the levels of cosmology (in terms of heaven and earth), anthropology (in terms of male and female), and semiotics (in terms of brush-stroke, ink-effect, and other signifiers and signifié s in art and literature). The discussion also reviews relevant theories of literature, music, dance, and drama in pre-modern China. In doing so, it clarifies the confusions caused by the overlapping and indistinct demarcations between vitality-charm and a number of similar concepts. Key Features: ○The book is the first monograph where the conceptual binary of Vitality-Charm 氣韻 in traditional discourse of art is traced down to the fundamental antithesis between Qian 乾 and Kun 坤 in the Zhou Yi (Book of Changes) and hence to the root of traditional — and, to a certain extent, contemporary — Chinese culture ○The approach and perspective taken in the book lend themselves to promoting and deepening the mutual understanding between art and philosophy, science and religion, ethics and cosmology, and Eastern and Western cultures ○Availing himself of the thoughts and theories of Chinese and Western scholars including Ye Xie 葉燮 (1627–1703 AD), Zhang Yanyuan 張彥遠 (815–907 AD), Hegel, Taine, and Winckelmann, the author has constructed a cyclic model for the development of art based on his original and well-informed cosmological and philosophical views

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