无论西方文明还是中华文明,文字出现后很快成为文明传承的重要手段。在这个过程里,汉字历经千百年的发展,成为一门独立的书写性艺术。那么,同样具有悠久历史的拉丁文字能否成为书写性艺术呢?在现代的定义中,艺术是“反映当地生活,满足人们精神需求的意识形态”。[1]以此标准来衡量,拉丁文字的书写也是一门艺术。然而,在更大意义上,拉丁文字是一门装饰性艺术,它强调的是完成后的视觉效果。无论是最早的手写体《圣经》还是维多利亚时代潇洒的花体,拉丁文字在书写过程中努力达到的是使文字主体 Regardless of Western civilization or Chinese civilization, the writing soon became an important means of the inheritance of civilization. In this process, Chinese characters have become an independent art of writing after thousands of years of development. So, can the same long history of Latin writing become writing art? In modern definitions, art is “an ideology that reflects the local life and meets people’s spiritual needs.” [1] By this standard, writing in Latin is also an art. However, in a larger sense, the Latin text is a decorative art that emphasizes the finished visual effects. Whether it is the earliest handwritten “Bible” or Victorian chic flower, Latin writing in the writing process is to achieve is to make the main text