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Calligraphy
About: Calligraphy is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1537 publications have been published within this topic receiving 7480 citations.
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1 Jan 1995
TL;DR: In this article, Francleois Julien, a French sinologist whose work has not yet appeared in English, uses the Chinese concept of shi as a touchstone to explore Chinese culture and uncover the intricate and coherent structure underlying Chinese modes of thinking.
Abstract: In this strikingly original contribution to our understanding of Chinese philosophy, Francle;ois Julien, a French sinologist whose work has not yet appeared in English uses the Chinese concept of shi - meaning disposition or circumstance, power or potential - as a touchstone to explore Chinese culture and to uncover the intricate and coherent structure underlying Chinese modes of thinking.A Hegelian prejudice still haunts studies of ancient Chinese civilization: Chinese thought, never able to evolve beyond a cosmological point of view, with an indifference to any notion of telos, sought to interpret reality solely on the basis of itself. In this groundbreaking study, prejudices toward the simplicity and "naivet" of Chinese thought, Hegelian and otherwise, are dismantled one by one to reveal the intricate and coherent structure underlying Chinese modes of thinking and representing reality.Jullien begins with a single Chinese term, shi, whose very ambivalence and disconcerting polysemy, on the one hand, and simple efficacy, on the other, defy the order of a concept. Yet shi insinuates itself into the ordering and conditioning of reality in all its manifold and complex representations. Because shi neither gave rise to any coherent, general analysis nor figured as one of the major concepts among Chinese thinkers, Jullien follows its appearance from one field to another: from military strategy to politics; from the aesthetics of calligraphy and painting to the theory of literature; and from reflection on history to "first philosophy."At the point where these various domains intersect, a fundamental intuition assumed self-evident for centuries emerges, namely, that reality - every kind of reality - may be perceived as a particular deployment or arrangement of things to be relied upon and worked to one's advantage. Art or wisdom, as conceived by the Chinese, lies in strategically exploiting the propensity that emanates from this particular configuration of reality.
244 citations
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1 Jan 1999
TL;DR: In the domain of visual images, those of fine art form a tiny minority as discussed by the authors, while those from science, technology, commerce, medicine, music, and archaeology form a vast majority.
Abstract: In the domain of visual images, those of fine art form a tiny minority This original and brilliant book calls upon art historians to look beyond their traditional subjects-painting, drawing, photography, and printmaking-to the vast array of "nonart" images, including those from science, technology, commerce, medicine, music, and archaeology Such images, James Elkins asserts, can be as rich and expressive as any canonical painting Using scores of illustrations as examples, he proposes a radically new way of thinking about visual analysis, one that relies on an object's own internal sense of organization Elkins begins by demonstrating the arbitrariness of current criteria used by art historians for selecting images for study He urges scholars to adopt, instead, the far broader criteria of the young field of image studies After analyzing the philosophic underpinnings of this interdisciplinary field, he surveys the entire range of images, from calligraphy to mathematical graphs and abstract painting Throughout, Elkins blends philosophic analysis with historical detail to produce a startling new sense of such basic terms as pictures, writing, and notation
221 citations
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16 Mar 2009
TL;DR: The "definitive book on Islamic art" by S.H. Nasr is presented in a revised, full colour, commemorative edition containing 285 new colour photos and a new Introduction.
Abstract: Called the "definitive book on Islamic Art" by S.H. Nasr, this beautifully illustrated masterpiece is presented in a revised, full colour, commemorative edition containing 285 new colour photos and a new Introduction. Burckhardt provides an in-depth analysis of Islamic architecture, from Spain and Morocco to Persia and India and examines Koranic calligraphy and illumination, arabesque, carpets, rugs, Persian miniatures, and much more.
166 citations
27 Jun 2017
TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors treated the calligraphy synthesis problem as an image-to-image translation problem and proposed a deep neural network based model which can generate calligraphY images from standard font images directly.
Abstract: In this paper, we investigate the Chinese calligraphy synthesis problem: synthesizing Chinese calligraphy images with specified style from standard font(eg. Hei font) images (Fig. 1(a)). Recent works mostly follow the stroke extraction and assemble pipeline which is complex in the process and limited by the effect of stroke extraction. In this work we treat the calligraphy synthesis problem as an image-to-image translation problem and propose a deep neural network based model which can generate calligraphy images from standard font images directly. Besides, we also construct a large scale benchmark that contains various styles for Chinese calligraphy synthesis. We evaluate our method as well as some baseline methods on the proposed dataset, and the experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed model.
155 citations
TL;DR: This article proposed an intelligent system that can automatically create novel, aesthetically appealing Chinese calligraphy from a few training examples of existing calligraphic styles, and implemented a prototype system that automatically generates new Chinese calligraphics art from a small training set.
Abstract: Chinese calligraphy is among the finest and most important of all Chinese art forms and an inseparable part of Chinese history. Its delicate aesthetic effects are generally considered to be unique among all calligraphic arts. Its subtle power is integral to traditional Chinese painting. A novel intelligent system uses a constraint-based analogous-reasoning process to automatically generate original Chinese calligraphy that meets visually aesthetic requirements. We propose an intelligent system that can automatically create novel, aesthetically appealing Chinese calligraphy from a few training examples of existing calligraphic styles. To demonstrate the proposed methodology's feasibility, we have implemented a prototype system that automatically generates new Chinese calligraphic art from a small training set.
152 citations
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| 2026 | 2 |
| 2025 | 126 |
| 2024 | 198 |
| 2023 | 245 |
| 2022 | 317 |
| 2021 | 91 |