@article{ART002544165},
author={Woo, Jae Ho},
title={The Calligraphy of Gao Xian, a Monk Calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty, and its Past Evaluation},
journal={Journal of Chinese Language and Literature},
issn={1225-083X},
year={2019},
number={82},
pages={185-206},
doi={10.15792/clsyn..82.201912.185}
TY - JOUR
AU - Woo, Jae Ho
TI - The Calligraphy of Gao Xian, a Monk Calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty, and its Past Evaluation
JO - Journal of Chinese Language and Literature
PY - 2019
VL - null
IS - 82
PB - Chinese Literary Society Of Yeong Nam
SP - 185
EP - 206
SN - 1225-083X
AB - In the Tang Dynasty, there were many monks who had knowledge and cultural literacy: monk poets(Shi seng) who wrote poems well; monk painters(Hua seng) who painted pictures well; and monk calligraphers(Shu seng) who were excellent in calligraphy. There are countless monks of the Tang Dynasty who were well known as monk calligraphers. Among them, Huai Su and Gao Xian are the representative monk calligraphers of the Tang Dynasty. As a second review on the monk calligraphers of the Tang Dynasty, this study, first, briefly introduces Gao Xian’s life and calligraphy. Next, this study analyzes the literary works of the Tang Dynasty that sang and evaluated Gao Xian’s calligraphy and the poems of the Tang Dynasty, as well as the evaluations of Gao Xian’s calligraphy by the literary men since the Tang Dynasty.
Some discriminating features in the evaluations of Gao Xian’s calligraphy are as follows: Extreme praises and criticisms exist at the same time; the praises and criticisms of Gao Xian’s calligraphy are compared with those of Zhang Xu’s and Huai Su’s; the evaluations since the Tang Dynasty were very much mediated by Han Yu’s Farewell speech for monk Gao Xian. Although, unlike Zhang Xu and Huai Su, extreme praises and criticisms exist for Gao Xian’s cursive script, the fact that Gao Xian is compared with Zhang Xu or Huai Su, who were representative cursive script calligraphers in the Tang Dynasty, demonstrates the excellence of Gao Xian’s cursive script, who was the representative cursive script calligrapher in the Late Tang period.
KW - 唐代(Tang Dynasty);書僧(Shuseng(Monk Calligrapher));高閑(Gao Xian);書藝(Calligraphy);草書(Cao shu(grass script;cursive script;Cursive style of writing));韓愈(Han Yu)
DO - 10.15792/clsyn..82.201912.185
ER -
Woo, Jae Ho. (2019). The Calligraphy of Gao Xian, a Monk Calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty, and its Past Evaluation. Journal of Chinese Language and Literature, 82, 185-206.
Woo, Jae Ho. 2019, "The Calligraphy of Gao Xian, a Monk Calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty, and its Past Evaluation", Journal of Chinese Language and Literature, no.82, pp.185-206. Available from: doi:10.15792/clsyn..82.201912.185
Woo, Jae Ho "The Calligraphy of Gao Xian, a Monk Calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty, and its Past Evaluation" Journal of Chinese Language and Literature 82 pp.185-206 (2019) : 185.
Woo, Jae Ho. The Calligraphy of Gao Xian, a Monk Calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty, and its Past Evaluation. 2019; 82 : 185-206. Available from: doi:10.15792/clsyn..82.201912.185
Woo, Jae Ho. "The Calligraphy of Gao Xian, a Monk Calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty, and its Past Evaluation" Journal of Chinese Language and Literature no.82(2019) : 185-206.doi: 10.15792/clsyn..82.201912.185
Woo, Jae Ho. The Calligraphy of Gao Xian, a Monk Calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty, and its Past Evaluation. Journal of Chinese Language and Literature, 82, 185-206. doi: 10.15792/clsyn..82.201912.185
Woo, Jae Ho. The Calligraphy of Gao Xian, a Monk Calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty, and its Past Evaluation. Journal of Chinese Language and Literature. 2019; 82 185-206. doi: 10.15792/clsyn..82.201912.185
Woo, Jae Ho. The Calligraphy of Gao Xian, a Monk Calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty, and its Past Evaluation. 2019; 82 : 185-206. Available from: doi:10.15792/clsyn..82.201912.185
Woo, Jae Ho. "The Calligraphy of Gao Xian, a Monk Calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty, and its Past Evaluation" Journal of Chinese Language and Literature no.82(2019) : 185-206.doi: 10.15792/clsyn..82.201912.185
