Article: The Upright Brush: Yan Zhenqing's Calligraphy and Song Literati Politics.(Review)

The Upright Brush: Yan Zhenqing's Calligraphy and Song Literati Politics. By AMY McNAIR. Honolulu: UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII PRESS, 1998. Pp. 177, illus.

Recent years have witnessed growing maturity and sophistication in Western studies of Chinese calligraphy, as monographs and exhibitions have focused new attention on this art--attention it surely deserves given its preeminence among the visual arts in China. Scholars outside the field of art history may wonder, however, how this tradition of writing as a fine art can be studied in relation to historical, social, or cultural phenomena. In spite of the pictographic origins of many Chinese characters, calligraphy, ...

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