| 词组 | calligraphy |
| 释义 | calligraphy Writers have been accused of misusing this word by commentators from Hodgson 1881 to Partridge 1942, Bernstein 1965, and Bryson 1984. Their objections are based on their belief that calligraphy means "beautiful handwriting." This is the etymological fallacy—the confounding of an English word with its etymology: calligraphy is formed from Greek elements meaning "beautiful writing." In writings dealing with art, inscriptions, typographic design, and the like, calligraphy is most often applied to artistic or decorative lettering—often in alphabets other than our familiar Roman—or to the art of producing such lettering. • Arabic inscriptions are now usually more closely integrated into the design-scheme, and cursive calligraphy has supplanted the strong uprights and right-angles of the earlier alphabets —Phyllis Ackerman, Ciba Rev., June 1953 • His father was a sign painter and lettering artist, and ... the only one of the 'revolutionary' artists of the twenties and thirties ... to have been trained in lettering and calligraphy —Printing World, 26 Dec. 1975 • One point of contention is whether the use of raised gold distinguishes illumination from calligraphy — Annalyn Swan, Wall Street Jour., 9 Aug. 1972 • The artist's debts are to Matisse ... and to Chinese caligraphy and landscape scrolls —Emily Genauer, N. Y. Herald Tribune Book Rev., 28 Nov. 1954 It is also used in an extended sense in reference to the use of line by an artist: • Calligraphy, or expressive draftsmanship for its own sake, is the virtue of Charles Seliger's delicate oils — Stuart Preston, N.Y. Times, 20 Feb. 1955 • ... others hailed him as a gifted exponent of sculptural calligraphy—or "drawing in space" —Robert F. Moss, Saturday Rev., 15 Nov. 1975 This extended use is occasionally stretched further as a metaphor: • His face ... registers only furrows and a knitted brow—the calligraphy of doubt —Alexandra Johnson, Christian Science Monitor, 18 Nov. 1976 In general literary use, without reference to art, calligraphy is used for ordinary handwriting—a sense faulted by our critics on the basis of etymology. • ... written in a clear, and rather bold round hand, the caligraphy particularly, for so old a man, being exceptionally good —Curiosities of Street Literature, 1871 • My father's letter (his calligraphy, I had noted, had neither become less neat nor more mature) —Jean Stafford, Partisan Rev., Fall 1944 Calligraphy is sometimes extended to the lettering of signs, whether decorative or not: • We lunched at one of those Chinese restaurants on Mott Street, whose name hung above the sidewalk in neon-tube calligraphy —Bernard Taper, New Yorker, 2 June 1956 • ... it is a sad sign, a pale reflection of the original's exuberant calligraphy —Colin Eisler, Harper's, August 1983 These are the ways in which calligraphy is currently used. The spelling caligraphy, which occurs in a couple of our examples, is old-fashioned and no longer in use. Do not confuse the meaning of the word's Greek roots with the word's meaning in English. |
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