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(★)(You have in your hands an unprecedented account of the history of East Asian calligraphy. Here is a book every bit as accessible and fascinating for noncalligraphers and for individuals unversed in kanji as it is for calligraphers and for kanji-literate readers. The author, Ishikawa Kyuyoh, speaks of ´the drama of the stylus´[brush and chisel], and he brings that drama alive by positioning it in compelling context : historical and spiritual, as well as artistic and cultural. Ishikawa has been a leading light in the calligraphic firmament for more than 40 years. He has continuously highlighted new expressive possibilities through work that is at once avant-garde and firmly rooted in calligraphic tradition. As interpreted by Ishikawa, calligraphy´s spiritual orientation engenders a powerful creative tension. ´The calligrapher´s tension,´ he insists,´is part of the spiritual awareness that is inseparable from the act of writing. It is the unrelenting self-scrutiny of the calligrapher who would fulfill a commitment akin to a holy vow.´ ◆Ishikawa Kyuyoh took an interest in calligraphy´s aesthetic possibilities as a child in Fukui Prefecture, where he was born in 1945. He gained admittance to Kyoto University´s Faculty of Law in 1963 but devoted his energies primarily to calligraphy while enrolled there. On graduating, Ishikawa went to work in the PR and advertising department at a chemicals company. He continued creating calligraphy on his own and left the company in 1978 to establish a calligraphy school. Ishikawa has exhibited widely and earned prestigious recognition with his boldly original work. He is also an award-winning author of several books about calligraphy. Ishikawa serves as a professor at Kyoto Seika University, where he has taught calligraphy since 2000.) |
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