Art Reboot

contents Acknowledgements 7 Introduction 9 Hands on 15 The riven reality of consciousness 21 The functions of art 27 The analysing mind 33 The nature of revolution in art 37 The unified mind 41 The vision thing 45 Transcendent experience 49 The medium, the message and the marketplace 55 The course of consciousness 61 Post-revolutionary banality 67 Cultural bias 71 Elegant graffiti 77 Relative authenticity 81 Befuddling the intellect 87 The inner artist 91 Learning to see Chinese paintings 97 Defining Chinese art in a globalised world 103 The talk walked 107 Creativity is the only escape 119 Reader’s response 121 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20