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Bokujinkai : Japanese calligraphy and the postwar avant-garde /

The Bokujinkai-or 'People of the Ink'-was a group formed in Kyoto in 1952 by five calligraphers, Morita Shiryu, Inoue Yuichi, Eguchi Sogen, Nakamura Bokushi, and Sekiya Yoshimichi. The avant-garde calligraphy movement they launched aspired to raise calligraphy to the same level of internat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bogdanova-Kummer, Eugenia (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2020.
Series:	Japanese visual culture ; v. 19.
Subjects:	Bokujinkai. Calligraphy, Japanese > 20th century. Avant-garde (Aesthetics)

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