The American Coup

[Andy Tarpinian]

On Oct 8, 2008, at 5:00 PM, "James R. Coplin" <james at ticalun.net> wrote:
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>> Name a few world-famous works of art that comes from China. The Great
>> Wall and the Forbidden City don't count. Along the lines of the Mona
>> Lisa or the Sistine Chapel, that sort of thing.
>
> Interesting criteria.  "Name something important from China but it  
> has to
> conform to Europe descriptions of beauty, value, and significance."   
> The
> paintings of the late Yuan masters do more for me than anything to  
> roll out
> of Church dominated European art. I find most Renaissance high art  
> to leave
> me completely unaffected and bored.  You assume based on your  
> criteria that
> things like the Mona Lisa and Sistine Chapel are the defacto  
> definition.
> This immediately casts anything done outside of Europe into a  
> subordinate
> role that must be mediated through your standards.  If you were to  
> ask the
> question of great art to a bunch of Chinese folks, you might be  
> surprised
> how what they consider great and what you consider great are not the  
> same.
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Tell that to the hundreds of Asian tourists crowed around the Mona  
Lisa at the Louvre ;P