When learning Chinese calligraphy, it is important for the learners to choose some good books, which will offer some useful instructions and suggestions. The following ten books about Chinese calligraphy will give you more!
When
learning Chinese calligraphy, it is important for the learners to choose some good books, which will offer some useful instructions and suggestions. The following ten books about Chinese calligraphy will give you more!
Chinese Brushwork in Calligraphy and Painting (English)
It is a good book about Chinese calligraphy and painting for beginners. In this book, the learners can learn much about the historical development of techniques and styles, aesthetic concepts, information on materials, technical principles and brush strokes and so on.
Chinese Calligraphy: From Pictograph to Ideogram
For those Chinese calligraphy learners, this book would be the best, for it introduces the history of 214 essential Chinese characters in China.
The Art of Chinese Calligraphy
In this book, the learners can find the most comprehensive knowledge of to Chinese calligraphy.
The Embodied Image (English)
Containing many never-before-published masterpieces from the third century to the modern period, all from the premier John B. Elliott Collection, this volume accompanies the most comprehensive.
Chinese Calligraphy: An Introduction to Its Aesthetic & Technique
The book covers the history, the styles, techniques, and more. This is the classic introduction to Chinese calligraphy. In nine richly illustrated chapters Mr. Chiang explores the aesthetics and the technique of this art in which rhythm, line, and structure are perfectly embodied.
Art in China (Oxford History of Art)
China boasts a history of art spanning 5,000 years and embracing a wide diversity of images and objects--from jade tablets, painted silk hand scrolls and fans to ink and lacquer painting, porcelain-ware, sculpture, and calligraphy.
Behind the Brushstrokes: Appreciating Chinese Calligraphy
Accessible to those who do not read or write Chinese, this introduction to the philosophy of Chinese calligraphy, the evolution of Chinese characters and other aspects will increase the readers’ understanding of Chinese civilization and heritage.
Chinese Art and Culture
Lucid, authoritative, written with verve by two respected American scholars, this generously illustrated work provides an introduction to more than 7,000 years of Chinese art.
Four Thousand Years of Chinese Calligraphy
With the help of some 300 illustrations, including some rare and never-before-published examples, the authors survey the leading calligraphers and calligraphic works of each age.
The Three Perfections: Chinese Painting, Poetry & Calligraphy
Authors provides a lucid and engaging analysis of the intimate relationships among painting, poetry, and calligraphy in Chinese culture.