title: Calligraphy of Images: Artworks by Yukei Teshima
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metadata.value: Filonenko, Nadezhda
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metadata.value: Tretyakova, Maria
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metadata.value: 2022-05-05T15:22:51Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-05-05T15:22:51Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-03
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metadata.value: Filonenko, Nadezhda, and Maria Tretyakova. “Calligraphy of Images: Artworks by Yukei Teshima”. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Arts 12, no. 1 (2022): 164–179.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu15.2022.108
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/36267
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metadata.value: Postwar Japanese calligraphy has been little studied in Western art history, and in particular,
  there is no analysis of the work of one of the most important calligraphers of postwar
  Japan,Yukei Teshima (1901–1987). The relevance of this research lies in the fact that the Calligraphy
  of Images (Japanese “Shosho”), created by the master, is an example of building a dialogue
  between fundamentally different traditions of Western and Eastern art, a dialogue that
  allows the calligrapher to see the uniqueness of Japanese calligraphy, including its spiritual and
  aesthetic content. The purpose of this study is to determine the specifics of Teshima’s work,
  using the example of his most famous artworks: “Hokai” (literally “Collapse”) (1957), containing
  the image of houses collapsing one after another from the explosions of aerial bombs
  at the end of World War II; and “Tsubame” (“Swallow”) (1960), giving rise to the feeling of
  flight through a “dancing” movement of a bird. The authors conclude that, although Tesima’s
  “calligraphic paintings” show a connection simultaneously with the Chinese roots of Japanese
  calligraphy and the avant-garde painting of the West, the calligrapher remains faithful to the
  Japanese artistic and aesthetic tradition. Unlike Chinese calligraphy, traditionally understood
  as a tool for “nurturing life”, or avant-garde painting generated by Western conceptuality, Teshima’s
  calligraphy expresses the Buddhist ideals of accepting one’s destiny (one’s path to enlightenment)
  and lack of attachment. The calligrapher uses the “hisshoku” (“rusty brush”)
  writing technique, which involves “overcoming” the brush and conveying the tactile sensation
  of a stroke (a symbol of overcoming the materiality of the world), and also forms the “boundless
  space” of the sheet, i. e. “aki”, which he calls “Space of [divine] love” and connects with the
  free soaring of the spirit.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Arts;Volume 12; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: postwar Japanese calligraphy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: sanpitsu of the Showa era
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Yukei Teshima
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Shosho
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: shin-po
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: fugyo-ho
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: hisshoku
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: yohaku
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: aki
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Calligraphy of Images: Artworks by Yukei Teshima
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metadata.value: Article
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