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A carregar... Arabic Script: Styles, Variants, and Calligraphic Adaptationspor Gabriel Mandel Khan (Posfácio)
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Arabic Script by Gabriel Mandel Khan is not about learning the fundamentals of writing in Arabic. It is a book focused on the art: the many different scripts, which is to say the history and mechanics of different calligraphy styles. It contains lots of examples (drawn reproductions of actual sources) displaying the decorative capacity of Arabic calligraphy. The introduction discusses the origins of written Arabic and some of the famous historical figures who influenced the development of various writing traditions. The book also describes how to make and use the calamus, the traditional reed pen. Like the other books, this one focuses on individual letters, showing how each one appears in more than 30 individual scripts or fonts, sharing some of the oldest extant examples of the letter, the ideal proportions for the letter and its artistic and metaphysical values. The end of each individual letter section is a spread of a wide range of decorative examples with the specific letter highlighted, to facilitate reading comprehension of the amazing array of calligraphic decorations on every conceivable surface and object. This is not a book that introduces Arabic as a language. There's no vocabulary building or tips on pronunciation or explanation of ligatures, etc. This is an introduction to the art of calligraphy that focuses on individual letters as the building blocks of that art. ( ) sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
This fascinating guide to the Arabic alphabet and writing styles also offers an ample and thorough overview of a culture and a civilization. This enlightening book helps us discover an alphabet that throughout the centuries has been linked to the secular and religious worlds of Islam. The text explains the history and meaning of each letter, as well as its philosophical, theological, and cultural significance, and 300 two-color and black-and-white pictures illustrate the letters, their variants, and calligraphic adaptations. An ideal book for linguists, graphic designers, and collectors of Islamic art, Arabic Script will also prove handy for travelers who wish to become familiar with the rudiments of the alphabet. One of the world's major forms of writing, Arabic script is the language of the Koran and became widespread as a result of Islamic conquests of much of the world. The Koran places great importance on writing, and in the first verse of the holy book, reading and writing with the calamus, or reed pen, are praised as the source of all knowledge and all spiritual or scientific paths of change. For this reason the Islamic world is known for its reverence for books, as well as its love of writing. Eventually Arabic script gave rise to calligraphic art, which became an art form of astonishing beauty. More highly regarded than painting, Arabic calligraphy is approached aesthetically, like music, with its own rules of composition, rhythm, and harmony. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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