Fu Shan's World: The Transformation of Chinese Calligraphy in the Seventeenth Century

(Book #220 in the Harvard East Asian Monographs Series)

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For 1,300 years, Chinese calligraphy was based on the elegant art of Wang Xizhi (A.D. 303-361). But the seventeenth-century emergence of a style modeled on the rough, broken epigraphs of ancient bronzes and stone artifacts brought a revolution in calligraphic taste. By the eighteenth century, this led to the formation of the stele school of calligraphy, which continues to shape Chinese calligraphy today.

A dominant force in this school was...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0674010922

ISBN13:9780674010925

Release Date:June 2003

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Length:368 Pages

Weight:2.60 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 8.8" x 11.2"

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Fu Shan's World: The Transformation of Chinese Calligraphy in the Seventeenth Century

(Book #220 in the Harvard East Asian Monographs Series)

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