ARTH 458 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Entrust, Oracle Bone Script, Small Seal Script
Document Summary
Lother ledderose (ten thousand things: module and mass production in chinese art, Zhou dunyi (11th century chinese philosopher)"s basic assumptions about the principles of creation in nature: production happens: by combining parts, and by reproducing, varying , and transforming established categories of units without end. Observations about modules they are interchangeable parts they have different levels of complexity they are all individually executed and hence display small differences in their shapes. Why not an alphabet? the chinese did not want to entrust their cherished texts to the fleeting sounds of the spoken language (precisely what the europeans did). Characters are symbols of meaning: script: the most powerful medium for preserving cultural identity and stabilizing political institutions; to guarantee the coherence of china"s cultural and political traditions. Writing the unwritten: chinese calligraphy beyond text, image, and art (traces of words: art and calligraphy from asia)
