The embodied image :Chinese calligraphy from the John B. Elliott Collection /Robert E. Harrist, Jr., Wen C. Fong ; with contributions by Qianshen Bai ... [et al.].
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Chinese calligraphy from the John B. Elliott Collection
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Princeton, N.J. :
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Art Museum, Princeton University in association with Harry N. Abrams,
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c1999.
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xx, 449 p. :32 cm.
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مرجع به حساب نمي آيد
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-411) and index.
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Introductory essays. Reading Chinese calligraphy / Robert E. Harrist, Jr. Chinese calligraphy : theory and history / Wen C. Fong -- Catalogue -- Essays. Texts of Taoism and Buddhism and the power of calligraphic style / Amy McNair. A letter from Wang Hsi-chih and the culture of Chinese calligraphy / Robert E. Harrist, Jr. Opposite paths to originality : Huang T'ing-chien and Mi Fu / Jay Xu. The two perfections : reading poetry and calligraphy / Robert E. Harrist, Jr. A quest for the imperishable : Chao Meng-fu's calligraphy for stele inscriptions / Zhixin Sun. Ming Dynasty Soochow and the golden age of literati culture / Chuan-hsing Ho. The aesthetics of the unusual and the strange in seventeenth-century calligraphy / Dora C.Y. Ching. Calligraphic couplets as manifestations of deities and markers of buildings / Cary Y. Liu. Chinese letters : private words made public / Qianshen Bai.