Vol. 3 No. 3 (2025): ART FRONTIER
This issue of Art Frontier presents a rich interdisciplinary exploration of Chinese art history, visual culture, and aesthetic theory, spanning from ancient jades to contemporary digital media. The ART THEORY & CRITICISM section features incisive analyses of twentieth-century art reform—examining Xu Beihong's "Fusion Theory" and Lin Fengmian's "Harmonization Theory" through the lens of the classical aesthetic category Yi—alongside studies on the contemporary relevance of Chuanshen (Shen-conveying) in ancient Chinese painting, the generative aesthetics of Wang Wei and Shitao, and Josef Albers's enduring pedagogical legacy. The IMAGES AND VISUAL CULTURE section delves into Tang dynasty mural iconography, Ming dynasty coffin paintings, and the evolving aesthetics of vampires in Western film. The ART HISTORY section offers nuanced investigations of Shang-Zhou jade hairstyles, Northern Song Ru ware's Confucian-Daoist complementarity, Ming literati four-season flower handscrolls as vehicles of emotion and social exchange, and Wen Zhengming's Huxi Thatched Cottageas a paradigm of self-object harmony. Together, these eleven articles illuminate the dynamic interplay between tradition and modernity, East and West, and material practice and spiritual transcendence across two millennia of visual culture.