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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 Lthe drama of the stylusL[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, calligraphyLs spiritual orientation engenders a powerful creative tension. LThe calligrapherLs tension,L he insists,Lis 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.L@Ishikawa Kyuyoh took an interest in calligraphyLs aesthetic possibilities as a child in Fukui Prefecture, where he was born in 1945. He gained admittance to Kyoto UniversityLs 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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