Stephen Addiss

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Stephen "Steve" Addiss (* 1935 in New York City ) is an American art historian, musician, composer, poet, painter, graphic artist, calligrapher and ceramicist.

Act

Addiss first studied composition with Walter Piston at Harvard University (Bachelor 1957) and with John Cage , with whom he was friends until his death in 1992, at the New School in New York. For seventeen years he worked as a guitarist and singer with the folk singer Bill Crofut . As Addiss & Crofut , they toured Africa, Asia, Europe and the United States, appeared on television shows and released 14 LPs.

Starting in 1971, Addiss took part in the graduate program of the University of Michigan , earning masters and doctoral degrees in Asian art history and musicology. In 1977 he began teaching at the University of Kansas , and from 1992 until his retirement he held the Tucker Boatwright Professorship in Art at the University of Richmond . He is the editor and author of numerous books on Japanese and Chinese art and culture and has organized exhibitions on the subject.

In addition to compositions and arrangements for the Addiss & Crofut duo , Addiss also composed chamber music, songs and drama music. His paintings, graphics and calligraphic works have been shown at exhibitions in China, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, Korea, England, France, Germany, Austria and the USA. He was also known as the author of haikus and haigas (a combination of haikus with pictures) and as a ceramist.

Fonts

  • The Sound of One Hand: Paintings and Calligraphy by Zen Master Hakuin (with Audrey Yoshiko Seo ), 2010
  • Speechless stitching. 2009
  • Haiku: An Anthology of Japanese Poems (with Fumiko and Akira Yamamoto ), 2009
  • Zen Art Book (with John Daido Loori ), 2009
  • John Cage Zen Ox-Herding Pictures (with Ray Kass ), 2009
  • Zen Sourcebook (with Stanley Lombardo and Judith Roitman ), 2008
  • Mountains of the Heart (with facsimile of the book by Kameda Bosai from 1816), 2007
  • The Zen Art Box (with John Daido Loori), 2007
  • Haiku Humor (with Fumiko and Akira Yamamoto), 2007
  • 77 Dances: Japanese Calligraphy by Poets, Monks, and Scholars, 1568–1868 , 2006
  • Traditional Japanese Arts and Culture: An Illustrated Sourcebook (Associate Editor), 2006
  • The Art of Chinese Calligraphy , 2005
  • Haiku Landscapes (with Fumiko and Akira Yamamoto), 2002
  • Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching (translation into Portuguese by Stephen Addiss and Stanley Lombardo, with 21 ink drawings by Stephen Addiss), 2002
  • Old Taoist: The Life, Art, and Poetry of Kodojin (with Jonathan Chaves ), 2000
  • The Resonance of the Qin in Far Eastern Art , 1999
  • Three Three Three , 1999
  • Haiku People (with Fumiko and Akira Yamamoto), 1998
  • The Art of 20th-Century Zen (with Audrey Yoshiko Seo), 1998
  • Six Directions (Illustrator), 1997
  • River of Stars (Illustrator), 1997
  • How to Look at Japanese Art (with Audrey Yoshiko Seo), 1996
  • A Haiku Garden (with Fumiko and Akira Yamamoto), 1996
  • Haiga: Takebe Socho and the Haiku-Painting Tradition , 1995
  • Four Huts (Illustrator), 1994
  • Tao Te Ching (translation with Stanley Lombardo, illustrator), 1993
  • Phoenix Papers: 26 Lawrence Poets (Associate Editor, Co-Author, and Illustrator), 1993
  • Art History and Education (with Mary Erickson ), 1993
  • A Haiku Menagerie (with Fumiko and Akira Yamamoto), 1992
  • Narrow Road to the Interior (Illustrator), 1991
  • Shisendo: Hall of the Poetry Immortals (co-author), 1991
  • The Art of Zen: Paintings and Calligraphy by Japanese Monks, 1600-1925 , 1989
  • Tall Mountains and Flowing Waters: The Arts of Uragami Gyokudō , 1987
  • Japanese Quest for a New Vision: The Impact of Visiting Chinese Painters 1600–1900 (ed. And co-author), 1986
  • Japanese Ghosts and Demons (ed. And co-author), 1985
  • The World of Kameda Bosai , 1984
  • A Myriad of Autumn Leaves (coauthor), 1983
  • Samurai Painters (with G. Cameron Hurst III ), 1983
  • Japanese Paintings 1600–1900 from the New Orleans Museum of Art (ed. And co-author), 1982
  • Tokaido: On the Road: Pilgrimage, Travel and Culture (ed. And foreword), 1982
  • Masterpieces of Sung and Yuan Dynasty Calligraphy (with Kwan S. Wong ), 1981
  • One Thousand Years of Art in Japan (ed. And co-author), 1981
  • Tokaido: Adventures on the Road in Old Japan (ed. And co-author), 1980
  • A Japanese Eccentric: The Three Arts of Murase Taiitsu , 1979
  • Obaku: Zen Painting and Calligraphy , 1978
  • Nanga Paintings , 1976
  • Zenga and Nanga: Paintings by Japanese Monks and Scholars , 1976
  • Japanese Calligraphy , 1975
  • Buson and His Followers (co-author), 1974

Compositions

  • Three piano pieces
  • Old Trees in Lonely Springtime
  • The Snail and Alone, Silently
  • Transformations and Fantasy for sextets
  • Trio for Violin, Flute, and Cello
  • Three Buddhist Meditations for Solo Cello and Chorus
  • Kyrie, Sanctus and Agnus Dei for Mezzo Soprano, 3 Cellos and Women's Chorus
  • Nine + Nine Haiku for two sopranos and 'cello
  • Aleatory Music for Dancers, Singers and Musicians
  • Sonata for Cello and Piano
  • Dialogue, Interlude and Passacaglia for two oboes and cello
  • Music to Tennessee Williams ' "The Purification"
  • Music to "The Tempest" and "Merchant of Venice"
  • Songs for Tenor and Chamber Orchestra from Thomas Campion
  • Music to "Oedipus at Colonus"
  • Three Excerpts from a Chamber Opera
  • Songs from Yeats Plays
  • Fantasy for piano
  • Three Duets for Solo Cello
  • Music to "Medea"
  • Adagio for Four Clarinets
  • Serenade, Nocture and Albada for Oboe, Bassoon and Strings
  • Lines in the Sea for six instruments and dancers
  • Homage to Pindar for solo flute
  • Idyll of Theocratus
  • Three Songs to Japanese Women Poets
  • Three Odes of Horace

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personal data
SURNAME Addiss, Stephen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Addiss, Steve (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American art historian, musician, composer, poet, painter, printmaker, calligrapher, and ceramist
DATE OF BIRTH 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City