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9780810963771
"Thanks to two stunning shows and their accompanying catalogs, calligraphy wasn't as easy to overlook this year as in years past.THE EMBODIED IMAGE, the fine catalog of the show at the Metropolitan Museum, is an intelligent and very readable (the accompanying text, that is) run-through of perhaps the finest American collection, now at Princeton University, of Chinese calligraphy, or 'beautiful writing.'''Robert E. Harrist is the author of 'Embodied Image', published 1999 under ISBN 9780810963771 and ISBN 0810963779.
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