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The Art of Calligraphy in Modern China
Language: en
Pages: 296
Authors: Gordon S. Barrass
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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Over the past three decades it has emerged as a more visually exciting modern genre, which now offers fascinating insights into the people of modern China.".
Brushes with Power
Language: en
Pages: 230
Authors: Richard Curt Kraus
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991-07-24 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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Explores the interplay of politics and the art of writing in China today to explain the complex relationship between tradition and modernity in Chinese culture.
Eulogy for Burying a Crane and the Art of Chinese Calligraphy
Language: en
Pages: 234
Authors: Lei Xue
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-12-06 - Publisher: University of Washington Press

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Eulogy for Burying a Crane (Yi he ming) is perhaps the most eccentric piece in China’s calligraphic canon. Apparently marking the burial of a crane, the large
A History of Chinese Calligraphy
Language: en
Pages: 460
Authors: Youhe Zeng
Categories: Calligraphy, Chinese
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993 - Publisher: Chinese University Press

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Chinese calligraphy has been an independent visual art form for thousands of years. Its wonderful aesthetics has inspired the art of Chinese painting since the
Chinese Art
Language: en
Pages: 313
Authors: Maxwell K. Hearn
Categories: Art, Chinese
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

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China's entry into the modern era was shaped by unprecedented internal turmoil and external pressures, which brought a forceful end to two millennia of imperial