Chinese Journal of Literary Criticism

No.1, 2023 

The Relationship between “Depth” of Zong Baihua’s Artistic Conception and German Aesthetics

(Abstract)

Zhang Sheng

German aesthetic theories has largely influenced Zong Baihua’s theory of artistic conception. Based on these theories, Zong marched to the beat of a different drum for his creating the deep spatiality of artistic conception. He held that the depth of artistic conception comes from (1) the depth of the artwork itself (influenced by Immanuel Kant); （2） the deep understanding of the universe (influenced by Arthur Schopenhauer); （3） the depth of the artists’ life and their revelation of tragedy (influenced by Friedrich Nietzsche); （4） the depth of its own space (influenced by Oswald Spengler). Thus, Zong constructs the depth of artistic conception through the depth of different dimensions.