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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Standard-sized.
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Very Good. 4to. xvii, 177pp, index, bibliography, glossary, notes, bw ills. Or card covers. Spine faded, some light foxing to page edges. Artistic biography of Yan Zhenqing (709-785), eighth century statesman. His style is still taught today as a standard. Begins with his illustrious family and meteoric early career and end with his crowning appointments to high national office and his martyrdom. Focuses on several caligraphic masterpieces ranging from the ink-written draft for the eulogy of his nephew, to the rugged grandeur of his cliff-engraved Paean to the Resurgence of the Great Tang Dynasty. The content and style of Buddhist, Daoist and Confucian works are explained and situated within Yan's life and contemporary events in Tang-dynasty China. Responses to Yan and his art by the literati of the Song Dynasty (960-1279) are woven into this framework, revealing how calligraphy assumed moral, political, personal and institutional values.
