Learn World Calligraphy
Published on 23. August 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-0-8230-3346-1 (ISBN)
Description
In "Learn World Calligraphy", renowned calligrapher and prolific author Margaret Shepherd provides a calligraphy instructional text unlike any other. This comprehensive, unparalleled 192-page volume covers virtually all the world's writing systems, ranging from Chinese, Arabic, Russian, Korean, Hebrew, Thai and Indian scripts to the alphabets of our earliest ancestors in Africa and the Americas. The book features Shepherd's exquisite hand-drawn illustrations, gorgeous full-colour examples of both traditional and modern calligraphic designs, plus modern materials and projects. Readers will also learn how the basics of each exotic script can be applied to the English alphabet in order to create readable calligraphy with a foreign flair.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Watson-Guptill Publications
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 277 mm
Width: 219 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
780 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8230-3346-1 (9780823033461)
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Additional editions
Margaret Shepherd
Learn World Calligraphy
Discover African, Arabic, Chinese, Ethiopic, Greek, Hebrew, Indian, Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, Russian, Thai, Tibetan Calligraphy, and Beyond
E-Book
07/2013
1st Edition
Watson-Guptill
€17.99
Available for download
Person
Margaret Shepherd is the author of 16 books on calligraphy, including Learn Calligraphy, a classic in the field. She has been interviewed or quoted by Newsweek, Oprah Magazine, Vogue and many other newspapers and broadcasters. Shepherd's original calligraphy is in the Rare Books Department of the Boston Public Library and the Cooper-Hewitt Museum (Smithsonian) in New York City.