Muzyczna radość dla oka. Transformacje chińskiego pisma w szanghajskiej grafice użytkowej pierwszej połowy XX wieku
Musical joy for one’s eye. Transforming of China’s handwriting in the Shanghai graphic design, in the first half of the twentieth century

Summary/Abstract: The article is an attempt to present the important changes on handwriting , music and graphics, which took place in Shanghai in the early decades of the twentieth century. A few commercials and inscriptions in the Shanghai’s magazines, gave me the starting point for the considerations in the discussion in which, in the aim of the artistic transformation of written signs, elements of the notes, the stave and the treble clef were used. Analyzing this artistic exercise and its consequences in the etymological, cultural, historical and social context, I tried to show the importance of experiments of Shanghai’s designers for a change of thinking about the Chinese handwriting and the relationships between the elements of the cultural heritage of China and the West.

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