Chinese calligraphy : an introduction to its aesthetic and technique : with 6 plates and 155 text illustratons

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A CHARMING EXAMPLE OF THE HAPPY BLENDING OF PAINTING WITH CALLIGRAPHY, BY TSENG YEN-TUNG ( fff 東 )) AN

ARTIST OF THE CH‘ING DYNASTY Frontispiece

(Collection of Liu Mao-Chih, Shanghai)

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AN EXAMPLE OF LI-SHU, BY SHIH-TAO (47 #), THE MOST BRILLIANT PAINTER OF THE EARLY CH‘ING PERIOD (Collection of Cathay Publishers, Shanghat)

FENG-CHU-TTEH (2 #§ ik), BY WANG HSI-CHIH (4 3 Z). THIS, THE ONLY PIECE OF WANG’S WRITING WHICH HAS SURVIVED, WAS DONE IN THE FOURTH CENTURY A.D. ITISA VERY PLEASING SPECIMEN OF HSING-SHU (Palace Museum, Peip‘ing)

A PIECE OF HSING-SHU BY SU TUNG-P‘O (ff 3H Yk) OF THE SUNG DYNASTY (Collection of Tun-Lu, Shanghai)

BY TUNG CH‘I-CH‘ANG (3 =H 3), A LEARNED SCHOLAR, STATESMAN, PAINTER, AND CALLIGRAPHER. HE HAS COMBINED MOST OF THE WELL-KNOWN STYLES AND CREATED ONE OF HIS OWN. THIS PIECE OF 7S‘40O-SHU SHOWS A TENDENCY TOWARDS HSING-SHU (Collection of Cathay Publishers, Shanghat)

EARLY CALLIGRAPHIC FORMS compared with SCULPTURED FORMS

Fish reproduced by courtesy of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Tiger 5 7 99 » » British Museum.

Deer Héng Ch‘ai Tsang Chien Yii Lu. Bird Mrs. A. M. Sedgwick.

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