Complete Collection of Chinese Calligraphy, Volume 55

Author: Liu Zhengcheng
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Publish Date: 1995-06-01
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, treatises, appendices, and supplements. The collection features over 30,000 high-quality calligraphy works from Chinese history, preserved worldwide, and over 20 million words of scholarly papers and annotations. Many of the illustrations are published for the first time. Each volume includes: biographical essays on calligraphers (or period-specific discussions), 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 merely an artistic atlas but represents an unprecedented comprehensive, research, and introduction to the traditional Chinese art of calligraphy—spanning thousands of years of cultural heritage—following the Chunhua Gallery Cuts of the Song Dynasty and the Three Pals Hall 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 immense value for calligraphy experts, researchers, enthusiasts, and collectors alike.