Complete Collection of Chinese Calligraphy. 19, Three Kingdoms, Western Jin, Eastern Jin, and Northern and Southern Dynasties. Wang Xizhi, Wang Xianzhi. 2

Author: Liu Zhengcheng
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: The Complete Collection of Chinese Calligraphy spans from the Shang and Zhou dynasties to the contemporary era, comprising a total of 108 volumes. The volumes are divided into two major categories: 1. Period-specific volumes; 2. Master calligrapher volumes. Each volume is organized into ten major sections based on the era, with additional sections for seal carving, essays, appendices, and supplements. The collection features high-quality reproductions of over 30,000 pieces of Chinese calligraphy masterpieces preserved worldwide, along with more than 20 million words of scholarly papers and textual annotations. Many of the illustrations are published for the first time. Each volume includes: biographical essays on calligraphers (or period-specific analyses), plate reproductions, calligrapher's theories on calligraphy, chronological tables of calligraphers, maps of calligraphers' life trajectories, annotations and explanations of plate reproductions, and bibliographies. This book is not merely an artistic atlas but represents an unprecedented comprehensive, research, and introduction to the millennia-old traditional Chinese cultural art of calligraphy, following the Chunhua Gallery Cuts of the Song Dynasty and the Three Pals Hall Calligraphy Collection of the Qing Dynasty. Such a thorough, systematic, in-depth, and meticulous study of an art form is rare not only in China but also in the global academic community. This book holds significant value for calligraphy experts, researchers, enthusiasts, and collectors alike.