 | Chinese Calligraphy Made Easy: A Structured Course in Creating Beautiful Brush Lettering by Rebecca Yue
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $9.58 "This is a fabulous introductory how-to book on Chinese calligraphy. The text and examples are large, the overall presentation of the material is clear and artful."
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 | Chinese Calligraphy: An Introduction to Its Aesthetic and Technique, Third Revised and Enlarged Edition by Yee Chiang
Buy new: $16.82 / Used from: $8.00 "... provides an excellent introduction to the art of Chinese Calligraphy as well as to the idiosyncrasies of Chinese aesthetics."
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 | Learn Japanese Calligraphy Lessons 1 - 6 by Eri Takase
Buy new: $21.95 / Used from: $19.76 "It is almost like having my own private instructor, available any time, day or night, there for me whenever I have time to study my calligraphy."
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 | Zen Brushwork: Focusing the Mind with Calligraphy and Painting by Tanchu Terayama
Buy new: $18.48 / Used from: $11.11 "... simple exercises and practices that one can follow to expand one's mind and meditation skills through the arts of calligraphy and painting ..."
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 | Brush Writing: Calligraphy Techniques for Beginners by Ryokushu Kuiseko
Buy new: $20.52 / Used from: $2.27 "This is a good book for beginning students learning to write Kanji and Hiragana. The large format makes it easy to see how to form the character correctly."
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 | Chinese Calligraphy: From Pictograph to Ideogram: the History of 214 Essential Chinese/japanese Characters by Edoardo Fazzioli
Buy new: $32.05 / Used from: $1.28 "For each of the 214 radicals, you get a nice story explaining the history of the radical along with illustrations of the character's evolution from ancient pictographs to its current form."
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 | Chinese Brushwork in Calligraphy and Painting: Its History, Aesthetics, and Techniques by Kwo Da-Wei
Buy new: $17.95 / Used from: $3.65 "use of the brush from a historic point of view. He also shows how brush technique and written language developed and explains to his western readers how to "see with oriental style" ..."
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 | The Art of Chinese Calligraphy by Jean Long
Buy new: $12.55 / Used from: $4.95 "... provides practical instruction in Chinese calligraphy, blending in historical background and explanations of how the characters are used in Chinese art."
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 | Brushed Voices: Calligraphy in Contemporary China by I-Kuo Chang
Buy used from: $64.96 "The catalog contains insightful discussions of the artists' ideas and use of the brush, as well as biographical information about each artist."
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 | Art of Twentieth-Century Zen: Paintings and Calligraphy by Japanese Masters by Audrey Yoshiko Seo
Buy used from: $2.31 "The lives of this contemporary masters and the facts that made their inspiration flow, are descripted with clarity and passion."
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 | Traces of the Brush: The Art of Japanese Calligraphy by Louise Boudonnat
Buy used from: $11.16 "Just remember that this is a book on history, attitudes and ways of looking at the japanese calligraphy. This in not a text on calligraphy techniques."
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 | Sacred Calligraphy of the East by John Stevens
Buy used from: $23.00 "Extraordinary in its coverage of background, theory, examples and exercises, it sure is an excellent addition to ... finding a creative and trascendental outlet for his creativity."
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 | Out of the Ordinary : Calligraphy and Meditations by Anthea Dove
Buy used from: $1.27 Out of the Ordinary : Calligraphy and Meditations (Paperback) by Anthea Dove, Christina Caldwell
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 | The Art of Zen: Paintings and Calligraphy by Japanese Monks 1600-1925 by Stephen Addiss
Buy used from: $15.37 "I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in Zen, in art, in the Japanese culture or with a desire to better understand the view of life seen by awakened men and women."
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 | Zen No Sho: The Calligraphy of Fukushima Keido Roshi by Jason Wirth
Buy new: $39.95 / Used from: $30.36 "This gorgeous book looks at the art of Japanese Calligraphy through the eye of the philosopher-- and illuminates the beauty, grace, and subtelty of this seemingly simple art form ..."
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 | The Simple Art of Chinese Calligraphy: Create Your Own Chinese Characters and Symbols for Good Fortune and Prosperity by Qu Lei
Buy new: $18.21 / Used from: $3.00 "This is the absolutely perfect book for ANY beginner as they take their first steps on the 1000 mile journey of Chinese calligraphy"
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