# Calligraphy

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Category: Art
Slides: 32
Updated: 2026-05-15T22:17:30.451Z
Tags: art, calligraphy

## Summary

Calligraphy is the slowest visual art and the most patient. A single Chinese character can take a master sixty years to master. A single Quranic verse can take a year to compose. Key sections include: Calli graphy.; Opening The hand and the mark.; Chapter I Before calligraphy.; Chapter II The five scripts.; Chapter III The Sage of Calligraphy.; Chapter IV The Tang.; Chapter V Song through Qing.; Chapter VI East Asian variants.; Chapter VII Arabic calligraphy.; Chapter VIII Kufic..

## Slide Outline

1. Calli graphy.
2. Opening The hand and the mark.
3. Chapter I Before calligraphy.
4. Chapter II The five scripts.
5. Chapter III The Sage of Calligraphy.
6. Chapter IV The Tang.
7. Chapter V Song through Qing.
8. Chapter VI East Asian variants.
9. Chapter VII Arabic calligraphy.
10. Chapter VIII Kufic.
11. Chapter IX Naskh and Thuluth.
12. Chapter X Nastaʿlīq.
13. Chapter XI Ottoman scripts.
14. Chapter XII The 20th-century revival.
15. Chapter XIII Roman square capitals.
16. Chapter XIV Carolingian minuscule.
17. Chapter XV Blackletter.
18. Chapter XVI Italian humanist hands.
19. Chapter XVII Copperplate and the pointed pen.
20. Chapter XVIII The 20th-century revival.
21. Chapter XIX Calligraphy meets type-design.
22. Chapter XX Tools.
23. Chapter XXI What calligraphy is.
24. Chapter XXII The 20th-century crisis.
25. Chapter XXIII The screen.
26. Chapter XXIV Twenty-five works.
27. Chapter XXV Watch & read.
28. Chapter XXVI If you want to begin.
29. Chapter XXVII The case for slowness.
30. Chapter XXVIII Collections to visit.
31. Chapter XXIX The argument.
32. The end of the deck.

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