Chinese Calligraphers and Their Art

This book deals with the lives of the great Chinese calligraphers and the aesthetics of their work. Beginning with a detailed description of the various scripts of the written Chinese language, the author goes on to identify the major calligraphers, and discusses calligraphy as an art from the Chinese viewpoint and also in relation to modern Western art forms. Eighty examples of Chinese calligraphy are reproduced and discussed. With a chronology and index. xx, 286 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. 4to..