5.0 out of 5 stars
The writing-book that's bigger inside than outside., Jan 5 1997
By A Customer
This review is from: Italic Calligraphy and Handwriting Exercises and Text (Paperback)
This book distills the life-work and teaching of one of the
most influential calligraphers and better-handwriting
crusaders of of our century into a manual small enough to
enter a jacket pocket without bulging. Brief text -- with a
wealth of hand-calligraphed illustrations -- takes the
budding pen-person from the basics of the ABC on to easy (yet
elegant) handwriting, fun projects, and even the essentials
of professional book-design.
The work surpasses many others in the care taken with
its letter-forms; also in the instructions for practice,
which are clear and "do-able" without being over-simplified.
Buyers of this book might like to know that information
on a companion video-tape series (taken from a TV course,
based on the book, which aired during the author's lifetime)
is available from Oregon Public Broadcasting (www.opb.org) --
I hope that AMAZON will soon carry this as well!
The only ways in which this book falls short of
perfection: /1/ some of the additional resources the text
and bibliography mention are no longer available from the
sources he gives, and /2/ there is perhaps not enough
attention given to solving a few of the calligraphy-pen
"snags" that cause problems for many beginners.
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