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- Title Eulogy for Burying a Crane and the Art of Chinese Calligraphy
- Author Lei Xue
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Washington Press
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780295746364 / 029574636X
- Weight 1.36 lbs (0.62 kg)
- Dimensions 10 x 7 x 1.1 in (25.40 x 17.78 x 2.79 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - Chinese
- Library of Congress subjects Calligraphy, Chinese
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2019018139
- Dewey Decimal Code 745.619
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Hardback. New. Eulogy for Burying a Crane (Yi he ming) is perhaps the most eccentric piece in China's calligraphic canon. Apparently marking the burial of a crane, the large inscription, datable to 514 CE, was once carved into a cliff on Jiaoshan Island in the Yangzi River. Since the discovery of its ruins in the early eleventh century, it has fascinated generations of scholars and calligraphers and been enshrined as a calligraphic masterpiece. Nonetheless, skeptics have questioned the quality of the calligraphy and complained that its fragmentary state and worn characters make assessment of its artistic value impossible. Moreover, historians have trouble fitting it into the storyline of Chinese calligraphy. Such controversies illuminate moments of discontinuity in the history of the art form that complicate the mechanism of canon formation. In this volume, Lei Xue examines previous epigraphic studies and recent archaeological finds to consider the origin of the work in the sixth century and…
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