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The Art of Sumi-E: Appreciation, Techniques, and Application
Book by Shozo Sato, Thomas A. Heenan
- GenresArt
312 pages, Hardcover
First published September 1, 1984
About the author
Shozo Sato
20 books11 followersShōzō Satō was an artist, author, calligrapher, playwright, and a professor emeritus of the College of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He was the founder and former director of Japan House, and a former artist-in-residence at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts.
He was an internationally renowned master of Japanese traditional arts, such as Ikebana, Japanese Calligraphy, Sumi-e, Japanese Aesthetics, Japanese Traditional Dance, and Japanese Tea Ceremony. He was also a visionary theater director, most known for adapting Western classics into a traditional Japanese Kabuki style.
He was an internationally renowned master of Japanese traditional arts, such as Ikebana, Japanese Calligraphy, Sumi-e, Japanese Aesthetics, Japanese Traditional Dance, and Japanese Tea Ceremony. He was also a visionary theater director, most known for adapting Western classics into a traditional Japanese Kabuki style.
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February 3, 2017
Beautiful book. Excellent resource.
June 10, 2014
This is one of the few books in English that covers the basics and has some composition information.
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