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About this title: Calligraphy is often regarded as the purest manifestation of an artist's inner character and level of cultivation, as well as the expression of his soul, thoughts and feelings. This volume presents some 58 Japanese works, almost all calligraphy, from the collection formed over the last 40 years of the 20th century by Sylvan Barnet and William Burto, literary scholars who became enraptured by the Japanese art of the brush. Spanning more than a thousand years from the Nara period (710-794) through to the 19th century, the material includes sublime early sutras, or transcriptions of the Buddha's ...
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The Written Image: Japanese Calligraphy and Painting From the Sylvan Barnet and William Burto Collection
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The Written Image: Japanese Calligraphy and Painting From the Sylvan Barnet and William Burto Collection. With Contributions By Sylvan Barnet, William Burto, Karen Brock, Sondra Castile, Maxwell Hearn, T. Kasashima and Al
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Description: Japanese Calligraphy and Painting from the Sylvan Barnet and William Burto Collection. Numerous illustrations in color & in black & white. Small 4to, tan cloth, d.w. New York: Metropolitan Museum/Yale Univerity Pres, (2002). Fine. read more
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