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The Artist As Creator: The Theory Of Art In Du Fu's Poems About Paintings, James H. Edwards
The Artist As Creator: The Theory Of Art In Du Fu's Poems About Paintings, James H. Edwards
Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014
Du Fu is one of China's most celebrated and influential poets. His poems about paintings are a highly innovative subset of poems rich with imagery and emotion. Received ideas about these poems fail to account for any role played in them by Du's aesthetic ideas. This study analyses Du's poems about paintings in order to bring to light Du's theory of art. Du's theory of art combines ancient Chinese ideas about aesthetics, literature and the nature of humanity's relationship to the universe. These traditional ideas serve as the foundation for a unique theory. Du's theory of art posits the painter …