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Discover the sophisticated beauty of calligraphy from around the world with this comprehensive, one-of-a-kind resource. This groundbreaking international tour of calligraphy now features a sumptuous new foil-stamped cover. Showcasing the work of a roster of international artists, it features more than 60 scripts drawn by experts from America and Armenia to Syria and Tibet. Reflecting the diversity of contemporary calligraphy, it includes lessons and exercises for learning to write 28 alphabets, including Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese, Roman, and more. This unique volume offers an exploration of each script's history, while beautiful step-by-step instructions and examples will inspire and guide calligraphy enthusiasts and experts alike.… (altro)
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Dedicated to the legendary Mongolian horsemen who, we are told, did calligraphy while riding their steeds across the steppes of Central Asia.
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Introduction / Christopher Calderhead: This is a book about living calligraphic traditions.
The edged pen / Christopher Calderhead: The two basic tools of calligraphy are the edged pen and the East Asian brush.
The Roman alphabet / Christopher Calderhead: The styles of calligraphy using the Roman alphabet are incredibly diverse.
Greek and Cyrillic / Georgia Angelopoulos: Greek and Cyrillic are closely related scripts with similar letterforms, and so they are grouped together in this chapter.
Hebrew / Holly Cohen: The Jewish people have been called "The People of the Book" for their love of Torah.
Arabic / Christopher Calderhead: In one classic tradition of instruction, the first task for the beginning student of Arabic calligraphy is o copy out a prayer known as the Rbbi.
Indic scripts / Holly Cohen: The Indian subcontinent is the place of origin for a huge family of scripts that are used from the Tibetan Plateau in the north to Cambodia in Southeast Asia.
Tibetan / Christopher Calderhead: Why devote a separate chapter to the calligraphy of Tibet?
The East Asian brush / Christopher Calderhead: The brush, ink stick, inkstone, and paper are known as the "Four Treasures of the Scholar" in East Asian cultures.
Chinese / Christopher Calderhead: Calligraphy holds a central role in the development of Chinese art and culture.
Japanese: The modern Japanese writing system consists of a combination of three scripts: Chinese characters, or Kanji in Japanese; and two indigenous phonetic syllabaries, called Hiragana and Katakana.
Korean / Yoo Sung Lee: Hangeul is the script used to write Korean, a language of seventy-six million speakers.
Armenian and other traditions: In this chapter we have included a selection of scripts that, with the exception of Syriac, have survived and ensured the cultural continuity of smaller, insulated nations living in the shadow of powerful empires.
Afterword / Christopher Calderhead and Holly Cohen: This book has been five years in the making.
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Introduction / Christopher Calderhead: But each of the calligraphic scripts of the world are usually born of the specific tool used, and we list that here for each script.
Hebrew / Holly Cohen: They created elaborate carpet pages with patterns similar to those in Oriental rugs, all illustrated with micrography and heavily influenced by Muslim art from the communities in which they lived.
Armenian and other traditions: Anna's study is presented in two parts (opposite): at the top, she has made a facsimile of a portion of the manuscript text, at the bottom, she has produced a series of typical letters, showing in onme column the base consonant form, and in the second column, one of the possible variants with a diacritic mark.
Discover the sophisticated beauty of calligraphy from around the world with this comprehensive, one-of-a-kind resource. This groundbreaking international tour of calligraphy now features a sumptuous new foil-stamped cover. Showcasing the work of a roster of international artists, it features more than 60 scripts drawn by experts from America and Armenia to Syria and Tibet. Reflecting the diversity of contemporary calligraphy, it includes lessons and exercises for learning to write 28 alphabets, including Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese, Roman, and more. This unique volume offers an exploration of each script's history, while beautiful step-by-step instructions and examples will inspire and guide calligraphy enthusiasts and experts alike.