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Andy Summers: The Bones of Chuang Tzu
ISBN: 9783958294035
(HB - EN)
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The Bones of Chuang Tzu is Andy SummerÆs interpretation of China. Influenced by many aspects of Asian culture since his teenage years and particularly the writings of fourth-century Chinese poet, philosopher and disciple of the wandering life Chuang Tzu, this book is a logical culmination of these interests. Rather than a collection of standard pictures of China, Summers uses the backdrop of the country to explore its symbolic and poetic tropes as he sees them, finding the unique lines, shapes and textures that repeat and repre - sent that civilization in metaphoric termsùthus we find the lotus, the brushstroke, the dragon.
Summer focuses on aspects of China that are rapidly disappearing. But rather than romanticizing the past and seeing photography as an act of preservation, his pictures gesture towards the specific vitality of a culture. Take for example, SummerÆs photos of the Naxi orchestra in western China, through which he felt like he knew all these old musicians, but return
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