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• Title:Out of character : decoding Chinese calligraphy / edited by Michael Knight and Joseph Z. Chang ; with contributions from Jonathan Chaves, Ho Chuan-hsing, Huang Dun, Michael Knight, Celia Carrington Riely, Wang Lianqi, Xiao Yanyi, Wang Yao-tʻing, and Xue Longchun ; foreword by Jerry Yang.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Knight, Michael, 1953- editor of compilation.
  Chang, Joseph, editor of compilation.
  Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation, sponsoring body.
  Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, host institution.
  Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), host institution.
  
• Published/Created:San Francisco : Asian Art Museum, 2012.
  

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  • Location:ASIAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: NK3634.A2 O85 2012
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Links:Donor bookplate
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Calligraphy, Chinese--Exhibitions.
  
• Description:350 pages
  
• Summary:"What defines a masterwork of calligraphy? Out of Character, a collaborative effort from leading Chinese and U.S. scholars, tries to answer this question by focusing on fifteen calligraphic masterpieces. Supporting these masterworks are an additional twenty-five works of the highest quality. Calligraphy has been admired as the ultimate art form by China's educated elite for more than 2,000 years. Over that time a complex set of rules and conventions has evolved that impacts every aspect of the calligrapher's practice. Within the constraints of their artistic tradition, creativity and self-expression have remained of primary importance to the Chinese calligrapher. With mind and hand in accord, Chinese calligraphers express the strength of their character in the characters they write. Out of Character provides the context and the critical tools viewers need to understand why this art form has been so admired in the Chinese tradition"-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:The exhibition Out of Character: Decoding Chinese Calligraphy was presented at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco from October 5, 2012 through January 13, 2013. The exhibition, organized by the Asian Art Museum, will also be presented at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York from April 13 through August 3, 2014. Presentation at the Asian Art Museum is made possible by The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation.
  Includes bibliographical references.
  
• ISBN:9780939117635 (hardback)
  0939117630 (hardback)
  9780939117642 (paper)
  0939117649 (paper)