书名：Learn Calligraphy 英文书法学习 

作者：Margaret Shepherd 

出版社名称：Watson-Guptill 

出版时间：2001 

语种： 英文 

ISBN：9780767907323 

商品尺寸：21.6 x 1 x 27.4 cm 

包装：平装 

页数：168

       Learn Calligraphy是美国有名书法家Margaret Shepherd编写的书法学习指导书，本书适合有一定英语水平的英文书法学习者或字体设计艺术爱好者使用。

推荐理由：        1.从字体的历史到用笔角度等方面都有详细介绍，内容循序渐进，系统全面；        2.全书由作者亲笔手写，字字句句都是书法的直观展现，本身就是字帖；       3.大开本，书中配有手绘插图及练习页，另外对数字和标点符号也有详细讲解，方便阅读和自学；        4.对用左手写字的技巧做了补充说明，全面体贴；        5.除了书法学习外，作者更着重引导读者从艺术的角度去领会书法的精神，鼓励读者创造自己的独特书写风格；        6.解释不同字体字母的正斜体、大小写的用法，如罗马字体常用于短文写作，而斜体则更适合非正式的沟通与写作，这不仅是一本书法指导书，也是一本英语学习用书，英语学习者也可阅读。

    In an age of myriad computer fonts and instant communication, your handwriting style is increasingly a very personal creation. In this book, Margaret Shepherd, America’s premier calligrapher, shows you that calligraphy is not simply a craft you can learn, but an elegant art form that you can make your own.     Calligraphy remains perennially popular, often adorning wedding invitations, diplomas, and commercial signs. Whether it is Roman, Gothic, Celtic, Bookhand, or Italic style, calligraphy conveys class and elegance. Margaret Shepherd makes this ancient art form accessible in a completely hand-lettered technical guide that will:     * Provide context for calligraphy as an art, exploring the rich tradition of hand-lettering and mapping the evolution of the most popular styles.     * Give detailed technical advice on choosing pens, paper, and inks, setting up your workspace, mastering various pen angles, along with step-by-step illustrations to guide you as you practice.     * Explain which alphabets are appropriate for different forms of writing. For example, the Roman alphabet works well for short, unpunctuated passages, while the Italic alphabet is more suited to informal everyday communication.     * Encourage you to personalize your lettering by using variant strokes and interpreting how you would like the words to look on the page.     * Inspire you with carefully chosen illustrations and examples, which bring letters to life. In Margaret Shepherd’s own words, “Calligraphy trains not only your eye and hand, but your mind as well.” Learn Calligraphy is the authoritative primer for this age-old craft, and will help develop a new appreciation for lettering as you discover your creative personality.        Learn Calligraphy系统地介绍了罗马体、凯尔特体、哥特体及意大利体等几种常见的字体，从发展历史、艺术鉴赏、书写特点、书写技巧、用笔选择、常用笔画、字母大小写、斜度、宽度、角度、笔顺等方面讲述英文书法问题，讲解详细。全书由作者手写后印刷出版，方便临摹和鉴赏，还配有插画、练习页，特别适合英文书法初学者。        Margaret Shepherd是美国书法家、作家，现定居于波士顿。其在英文书法方面有很深的造诣，对书法的研究也很广泛，现编写并出版了13本不同级别的书法教材，其中包括较为出名的手写版畅销书Learning Calligraphy。此外，她自己也进行书法创作，她的作品在许多博物馆或画廊都有展出。

    Margaret Shepherd is a noted calligrapher and author, with an impressive roster of high-profile clients. She has published thirteen instruction books for calligraphers of all levels. All her books, including the bestsellingLearning Calligraphy, are done in hand-lettered text. She has researched, taught, written, and freelanced extensively, and has exhibited her work in many museum and gallery exhibitions. She lives in Boston.ACKNOWLEDGMENT AUTHOR’S FOREWORD THE ALPHAPETS IN THE ALPHAPETS 2000 YEARS OF SCRIBES & MATERIALS   THE VOCABULARY OF THE PEN GETTING STARTED COMPENSATING FOR LEFT-HANDEDNESS  SEEING CALLIGRAPHY   ROMAN CELTIC GOTHIC GOTHIC CAPITALS      BOOKHAND ITALIC ITALIC CAPITALS & SWASHES  NUMERALS & PUNCTUATION    致谢辞 序言 字母中的字母 关于英文书法的2000年发展历史 关于英文书法用笔的相关词汇 开始学习英文书法 对用左手写字的技巧补充说明 英文书法概览 罗马体 凯尔特体 哥特体 大写哥特体 西文书写体 意大利体 大写意大利体及意大利斜体 数字及标点符号     Ever sincehumans began speaking, they have supplemented their sounds with gestures. Writing is really an extension of gesturing—a way to make a motion visible, memorable, and lasting. For thousands of years people wrote with whatever was handy. They kicked furrows in the sand, they cut notches on sticks, they pressed dents into clay, they tied knots in string, they painted symbols on bark, they scratched names on metal, they scrawled message on walls. The many different words we use for “calligraphy” reflect the many different ways to make a mark: script comes from words for “scrape” and “scratch”; the Greek graphy ending appears in technical terms as well as“groove” and “engrave”.

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