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Li Zehou 	Li Zehou
 	
Born 	1930
Hunan, China
Relevant Work	Four Essays on Aesthetics: Toward a Global View
Pages 	
1655-1670
(NATC, 3rd ed.)
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== Biography ==
Chinese philosopher who contributed much to philosophy, aesthetics, Chinese culture and society. 
==Four Essays on Aesthetics: Toward a Global View==
=== Background and Historical Context ===
Zehou's "work is rooted most deeply in the ideas of Immaneul Kant and Karl Marx (which he distinguishes from Marxism) and in traditional Chinese thought" (1655).
"Li's major contribution to aesthetic theory lies in his introduction of practice into the study of the essence of beauty" (1656).
=== Key Words and Terms ===
* primitive sedimentation
* artworks
* aesthetics
=== Key Quotations ===
"There has never been truly pure art, only art permeated with more or less worldly emotions" (1660).
"Without material media, there would be no works of art" (1660).
"...the definition of a work of art must be left open. There are no set conventions or rules for art to follow because materials change and so do subjective experiences" (1661).
"Only when we actively appreciate artworks do we encounter the real presence of aesthetic objects, which are simultaneously the material products of a certain society at a certain time and the corresponding products of a human mental construction" (1662).
"Artworks are just the materialization and condensation of human aesthetic psychological processes. The externalized material formations, artworks, provide us with volumes of touchable works that reveal the psychology of the human inner world. Art is a brilliant mirror of the mind and soul" (1662).
"The earliest awareness of beauty arose from the human subjective emotions and sensations, which corresponded to the objective forms of beauty. This correspondence is the product of sedimentation" (1664).
"The genius of an artist lies in the creation of a brand new sensuous world by the formal stratification of art" (1667).
=== Discussion ===
=== Major Criticism and Reception ===
== Bibliography ==
* The Path of Beauty: A Study of Chinese Aesthetics (1988)
* Four Essays on Aesthetics: Toward a Global View (2006)
* The Chinese Aesthetic Tradition (2010)
== References ==
* Leitch, Vincent B., editor. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. 3rd ed., W.W. Norton & Co., 2018.