Author: Cecil H. Uyehara, David Clarke & Ichiro Hariu

Publisher/Date: International Sculpture Center, 1993 ISBN: 9780963363817

Format/Condition: New softcover book is in fine condition. 112 pages, 9×9 inches

Description: More so than in written Western languages, traditional Japanese and Chinese characters reflect their pictographic roots. In Japan in particular, calligraphy remains an important genre of art, on par with poetry and painting, and the long history of written word forms finds expression in inventive calligraphic interpretations, which, perhaps surprisingly, are now also influenced by modern abstraction in Western art.

This catalog presents 58 contemporary works of Japanese calligraphy, reproduced in color and translated into English, with essays on the calligraphic tradition, the exchange of ideas between Eastern and Western art, and modern calligraphy.