Japanese Calligraphy: The path between eye and spirit - Couverture souple

Frentiu, Rodica

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 6131589267 ISBN 13 : 9786131589263

Editeur : Editions universitaires europeennes, 2011

Synopsis

Why Japanese calligraphy? This is a question I have been asked countless times both in Romania and in Japan, not without reason, which I can only answer either by picking up the brush and drawing, or by trying to put into words my impressions and readings on this traditional Japanese art... For a foreigner, the attempt to translate sho[dō] into the language of his own culture proves rather daring. The austerity created on paper by the black and the white becomes a secret for those belonging to another stylistic horizon, where the eye is bathed in color... But the hidden invites, beckons, asks to be unveiled. Looking at the character born from a single breath of the brush, the foreigner feels the inner energy of the graphic sign pulling him into the space of the white paper, a space arranged for him by the master calligrapher's eye, whether he is an initiated or uninitiated guest, whether prepared or not for the encounter with the spirit… An experience traversed by fear, cries, pain, anguish, joy… A white territory, filled with the emotion of a black line...

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Why Japanese calligraphy? This is a question I have been asked countless times both in Romania and in Japan, not without reason, which I can only answer either by picking up the brush and drawing, or by trying to put into words my impressions and readings on this traditional Japanese art... For a foreigner, the attempt to translate sho[d ] into the language of his own culture proves rather daring. The austerity created on paper by the black and the white becomes a secret for those belonging to another stylistic horizon, where the eye is bathed in color... But the hidden invites, beckons, asks to be unveiled. Looking at the character born from a single breath of the brush, the foreigner feels the inner energy of the graphic sign pulling him into the space of the white paper, a space arranged for him by the master calligrapher''s eye, whether he is an initiated or uninitiated guest, whether prepared or not for the encounter with the spirit... An experience traversed by fear, cries, pain, anguish, joy... A white territory, filled with the emotion of a black line...

Biographie de l'auteur

Rodica Frentiu, PhD – associate professor, Babes-Bolyai University(Cluj-Napoca,Romania). Main publications: Haruki Murakami.The Metaphorical Play of the Alternative Worlds, 2007; A Lesson in Japanese Calligraphy, 2008; Claire-obscure, Vagueness and Ambiguity... Hallmarks of Modern and Contemporary Japanese Literature, 2010.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Editions universitaires europeennes
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 6131589267
• ISBN 13: 9786131589263
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 108
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible