Re: You Haven't Seen Ethiopic Until...

From: John Hudson (john@tiro.ca)
Date: Wed Nov 23 2005 - 01:48:07 CST

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Daniel Yacob wrote:

> You've seen the work of premiere calligrapher Yigezu Bisrat:

I wonder if I'm alone in actually finding Bisrat's calligraphy bizarre and a bit
disappointing. The Ethiopic script has a venerable indigenous manuscript tradition, but
Bisrat's calligraphy seems to be pretty much entirely a pastiche of European (principally
German) models. These models are imaginatively applied to the Ethiopic syllables, but I
was looking forward to seeing some really fine examples of Ethiopic lettering, not Ge'ez
Fraktur.

John Hudson

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