Complete Collection of Chinese Calligraphy, Volume 36

Author: Liu Zhengcheng
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Publish Date: 2003-08-15
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, treatises, appendices, and supplements. The collection features high-quality reproductions of over 30,000 works of Chinese calligraphy from various eras, preserved worldwide, along with over 20 million words of academic 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), illustrations, calligrapher's theories on calligraphy, chronological tables of calligraphers, maps of calligraphers' life journeys, annotations and explanations of illustrations, and bibliographies. This book is not merely an artistic atlas but represents an unprecedented comprehensive, research, and introduction to the millennia-old traditional cultural art of calligraphy in China, following the Chunhua Gallery Cuts of the Song Dynasty and the Three Pines 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.