by François Cheng · Siruela · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788478447695
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Vacío y plenitud is a fundamental work for understanding Chinese painting. François Cheng, a specialist in Chinese poetry and painting, presents the development of painting in China over fifteen centuries, from a philosophical rather than a historical perspective. The first part explores the relationship between painting and Taoist philosophy, based on the notion of emptiness, essential to the Chinese conception of the universe. The second part focuses on painting through the theoretical writings of the painter Shitao (1641-1707), explaining the adscription of this art to the Taoist conception and incorporating fragments of Chinese painters and treatise writers on pictorial activity.
François Cheng is a Chinese-born French academician, writer, poet, and calligrapher. He is the author of essays, novels, collections of poetry and books on art written in the French language, and the translator of some of the great French poets into Chinese.
