Chinese Calligraphy Collection (25) -- Yan Zhenqing (1)

Author: Liu Zhengcheng, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 1995-06-02
Features: The Complete Collection of Chinese Calligraphy spans from the Shang and Zhou dynasties to the contemporary era, comprising one hundred and eight volumes. The volumes are divided into two major categories: 1. Period-specific volumes; 2. Master calligraphers' volumes. Each volume is organized into ten major sections based on the era, with additional sections for Seal Engraving, Treatises, Appendices, and Supplementary Notes. The collection features over thirty thousand prints of rare calligraphic masterpieces from all dynasties preserved worldwide. It includes over twenty million words of academic papers and textual annotations. Many of the illustrations have been published for the first time. Each volume contains: biographical essays on calligraphers (or period-specific analyses), plate illustrations, calligraphers' theories on calligraphy, chronological tables of calligraphers, maps of calligraphers' life trajectories, annotations and explanations of plate 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 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 immense value for calligraphy experts, researchers, enthusiasts, and collectors alike.