Complete Collection of Chinese Calligraphy: Volume of Li Yong

Author: Liu Zhengcheng
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Publication Date: 1996-08-01
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 over 30,000 high-quality prints of Chinese calligraphy masterpieces from various dynasties preserved worldwide, along with over 20 million words of scholarly essays 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 trajectories, annotations and explanations of illustrations, and bibliographies. This book is not just an ordinary art album but represents an unprecedented comprehensive, research, and introduction to the traditional Chinese cultural art of calligraphy—spanning thousands of years—by the contemporary Chinese calligraphy academic community. Such a comprehensive, systematic, in-depth, and meticulous study of an art form is rare not only in China but also in the global academic world. This book holds great value for calligraphy experts, researchers, enthusiasts, and collectors.