中国道教艺术

Daoist Prose Writings

172 Concluding Remarks

《中国道教艺术(英文)》由五洲传播出版社出版。《中国道教艺术(英文)》内容：What is Daoist art This is a question open for different interpretations. The Daoistarts as we define in this book refer to the artistic works with evangelic motivation and theartistic works inspired by Daoist thoughts and imaginations.The arts are a form of social thought and a reflection of social reality. As differentideas are represented in the arts,its expressions are rich and colorful. And its expressionstake many forms,such as statues,paintings and dramas. Religion and arts have much incommon. Like arts,religion is a reflection of social thought. Religion and arts borrowfrom each other and penetrate into each other. In the development of arts and religion，their mutual influence can be easily discerned.