{"id":1009,"date":"2008-02-08T11:05:22","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T03:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2008\/pinyin-inas-art\/"},"modified":"2015-12-17T18:25:07","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T10:25:07","slug":"pinyin-inas-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2008\/pinyin-inas-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinyin in\/as art"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nDetail of the painting China<\/em> (2006), by Paula Scher. <\/p>\n

The map has a few misspellings; but that’s not what’s important here. <\/p>\n

Paula Scher has made some other works that might especially appeal to those interested in scripts, especially her terrific Publikum Calendar for 2007<\/a>. It’s the sort of thing I think Languagehat<\/a> would have hanging on his wall. (This is a Flash site, so I can’t provide a better link. Click on “2007” near the bottom right of the screen, and then click on the names of individual months.) <\/p>\n

\"image<\/a>The artist Xu Zonghui (Xú Zōnghuī \/ 徐宗揮 \/ 徐宗挥) takes a different approach, starting from the Chinese tradition of ink on rice paper. A few of his works in a recent show in Spain use the Roman alphabet, one with Hanyu Pinyin’s “de.” <\/p>\n

Here are a few others with the Roman alphabet:
\n\"Chinese-style<\/a>\"Chinese-style<\/a>\"Chinese-style<\/a><\/p>\n

What, no “Ching” (Jing<\/em>)?<\/p>\n

sources and further reading\/viewing: <\/p>\n