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Harlem Stirs
Prologue: John O. Killens
Text: Fred Halstead
Photography: Anthony Aviles, Don Charles
Harlem Stirs
Prologue: John O. Killens
Text: Fred Halstead
Photography: Anthony Aviles, Don Charles
Harlem Stirs
Prologue: John O. Killens
Text: Fred Halstead
Photography: Anthony Aviles, Don Charles
Harlem Stirs
Prologue: John O. Killens
Text: Fred Halstead
Photography: Anthony Aviles, Don Charles
Harlem Stirs
Prologue: John O. Killens
Text: Fred Halstead
Photography: Anthony Aviles, Don Charles
Harlem Stirs
Prologue: John O. Killens
Text: Fred Halstead
Photography: Anthony Aviles, Don Charles
Harlem Stirs
Prologue: John O. Killens
Text: Fred Halstead
Photography: Anthony Aviles, Don Charles
Tao Magic is a beautiful, lavishly illustrated introduction to the world of Taoist calligraphy and Chinese mysticism. This selection of Taoist magic diagrams, talismans, and charms presents an aspect of Chinese art that has been virtually unknown to the west. Here for the first time are some of the most fascinating examples of Chinese abstract art developed outside the imperial mainstream, as important a part of the legacy of Chinese art as the celebrated Sung and Chou ritual bronzes and jades or the ceramics of the Ming and Ch’ing dynasties.
In his commentary, Laszlo Legeza explores the profound Taoist belief in the spiritual powers of calligraphy and the beautiful secret scripts evolved by Taoism to protect the “mystery” of the Tao. The illustrations are skillfully interwoven with the text to show how Taoist graphics were both a practical everyday art for the people and an extraordinary stimulating and imaginative carrier of spiritual truths. A truly fascinating collection of diagrams is drawn from a wide range of artists, from the illiterate villagers, recluses, and hermit-scholars to the Taoist exorcist priests, faith-healers, and sorcerers.
Laszlo Legeza, Hungarian born, is a specialist in Chinese art. He is a graduate of the universities of Budapest (1956) and London (1970). In 1972 he organized the Chinese Taoist art exhibition at the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art in Durham, England, where he is Deputy Curator. He is co-author (with Philip Rawson) of Tao: The Chinese Philosophy of Time and Change (1973).
Tao Magic, The Chinese Art of the Occult
Laszlo Legeza
