Tag: Changping Zha
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Comparative Relational Aesthetics: Zha Changping’s “World Relational Aesthetics” and Nicolas Bourriaud’s “Relational Aesthetics”
This is an article I’ve wanted to write for over a decade now, ever since I began translating texts written by Professor Zha Changing on the theory of world relational aesthetics. These translations from Chinese into English were never easy, despite my acquaintance and later friendship with the author. Texts on world relational aesthetics introduced…
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The History of Ideas in Pioneering Contemporary Chinese Art: Being a History of Nature and a History of Society
After having discussed other forming factors of the world-picture logic as histories – the history of language, the history of time, the history of self, this article points out the fourth and fifth ways of exploring the history of ideas in pioneering contemporary Chinese art are as a history of nature and a history of…
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The History of Ideas in Pioneering Contemporary Chinese Art: Being a History of Self
Changping Zha DOI: 10.64212/JRDQ5878 Abstract After having discussed other forming factors of the world-picture logic as histories—the history of language, the history of time, this article points out the third way of exploring the history of ideas in pioneering contemporary Chinese art is as a history of self. Then, it suggests the reasons why the history of ideas in…
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The Redemptive Aesthetics of Water
Based on the Ark Project, a work conceptualized by contemporary Chinese artists Wang Xieda and Liu Chuyun, this paper discusses many works involving water in contemporary Chinese art and Noah’s flood as a historical event in the Bible. Comparing the Hebrew religious tradition with the secular tradition of Chinese thought, suggests that the flood will…
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A History of Ideas in Pioneering Contemporary Chinese Art: Being a History of Language and Time
Begun with discussing the value of history, this article points out the subjective value judgements in the study of history and their significance for human free existence. Then, it suggests the reasons why the history of ideas in pioneering contemporary Chinese art should be a kind of history of language and a kind of history…