A Companion to Korean Art.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- About the Editors -- Notes on Contributors -- Editors' Preface -- Introduction: The Contours of Korea's Cultural History -- Prehistoric Korea -- The Chinese Stimulus -- The Three Kingdoms and Kaya -- Buddhism and Culture -- Mature Silla -- Koryŏ -- Chosŏn -- Under Japanese Rule -- Korea Independent and Divided -- References -- Glossary -- Part I Ancient to Medieval Cultures on the Korean Peninsula -- Chapter 1 Early Paintings of Korea: Murals and Craft Decorations -- Introduction -- Emergence of Painting on the Korean Peninsula -- Lelang -- Early Painted Stone-chamber Tombs in the Taedong-Chaeryong Deltas -- The mid-Yalu basin of Koguryŏ -- Paekche -- The Southeast: Silla and Kaya -- References -- Glossary -- Chapter 2 Sculptures of the Three Kingdoms and Unified Silla -- Modest Beginning -- Integral Localization -- Communal Effort -- Distinctive Vision -- Perfected Buddha World -- Consecrated Mountain -- References -- Glossary -- Chapter 3 Buddhist Architecture, Politics, and Gender in the Three Kingdoms and Unified Silla -- Introduction of Buddhist Architecture -- Pagodas, Political Power, and Gender -- Buddhist Temples with Twin Pagodas in Unified Silla -- References -- Glossary -- Chapter 4 Art and Artifacts of Three Kingdoms Tombs -- Tombs of the Three Kingdoms -- Personal Ornaments of Fine Metalwork -- Crowns, Cap-shaped Crowns and Crown Ornaments -- Earrings -- Necklaces -- Belts -- Bracelets and Rings -- Shoes -- Vessels -- Ceramic Vessels -- Metal Vessels -- Glass Vessels -- Imported Porcelain and Celadon Vessels -- Decorated Weapons and Horse Gear -- Ritual Objects -- References -- Glossary -- Part II The Koryŏ Dynasty -- Chapter 5 Introduction and Development of Koryŏ Celadon -- The Beginnings of Celadon -- Celadon Technology and the Development of Shapes in Early Koryŏ.

Introduction of Tea Culture and the Development of Celadon -- Celadon Buried in Tombs -- Manufacturing Techniques of Koryŏ Pisaek-Colored Celadon -- Diverse Decorative Methods -- Transportation and Circulation of Ceramics -- References -- Glossary -- Chapter 6 Koryŏ Buddhist Sculpture: Issues and History -- Retaining Traditions and Regional Diversities -- Rise of a New Aesthetic -- Sophistication -- Introduction of the Exotic: Sino-Tibetan Styles -- Further Issues -- References -- Glossary -- Chapter 7 The Art of Salvation: New Approaches to Koryŏ Buddhist Painting -- Introduction -- Koryŏ Buddhist Painting: Rediscovered Treasures -- Icons and Iconography -- Materiality and Secular Elements -- Moving Images and Shifting Positions: Koryŏ Buddhist Paintings in Japan -- Conclusion -- References -- Glossary -- Chapter 8 Establishing a New Tradition: Koryŏ Buddhist Architecture -- Buddhism, Geomancy, and Urban Planning of Kaegyong -- Temples in the Capital -- Mountain Monasteries -- Architectural Forms of Koryŏ Wooden Halls -- "Yuan Influence" in Pagoda Architecture -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Glossary -- Chapter 9 Arts of Refinement: Lacquer and Metalwares of Koryŏ -- Koryŏ Bronze and Lacquer -- Fluidity of Use -- Craftspeople -- Government Workshops -- The Early Koryŏ Period -- The Twelfth Century -- The Late Koryo Period -- Conclusion -- References -- Glossary -- Part III The Chosŏn Dynasty -- Chapter 10 The Emergence of Confucian Culture: Early Chosŏn Painting -- Introduction -- Founding a Confucian State -- Court Painters -- Portraiture -- Landscape Painting: the An Kyŏn Tradition -- Landscape Painting: the Korean Zhe School -- Symbolism of Animals and Plants -- Documentary Painting of Literati Gatherings -- Printing and Dissemination of Confucian Teaching -- References -- Glossary.

Chapter 11 Transformation: Three Centuries of Change in Late Choson Painting -- Rise of "True-Scenery" Landscape Painting -- Masters of Genre Painting -- Literati Painting and the Visual Poetics of Selfhood -- Flourishing of Court Painting -- Europe in Korea -- Conspicuous Consumption of Paintings -- References -- Glossary -- Chapter 12 Ceramics and Culture in Chosŏn Korea -- Porcelain as State Project -- Early Porcelain: Ideal of Austere Elegance -- Punch'ong: Earthy and Exuberant Counterpart to Porcelain -- Early Choson Ceramics and the Japan Factor -- Ceramics in Rites of Birth and Death -- Quintessentially Korean Styles in Eighteenth-Century Porcelain -- New Trends in Blue-and-White: Native and Foreign -- Global Perspective on Chosŏn Ceramics -- References -- Glossary -- Chapter 13 Ritual and Splendor: Chosŏn Court Art -- Seoul and its Palaces -- Painting Institutions at Court -- A Court Painter's Foremost Task: Portraiture -- Weddings, Processions, Birthday Banquets, and other Court Celebrations -- Meaningful Ornaments: Screens for Palace Ceremony and Decor -- Male and Female Quarters -- 'Court Art' and 'Folk Art' -- Advent of Modernity -- Conclusion -- References -- Glossary -- Chapter 14 Faith, Ritual, and the Arts: Chosŏn Buddhist Art and Architecture1 -- The Early Period -- The Late Period -- Monk-Artists -- References -- Glossary -- Part IV Modern &amp -- Contemporary Developments -- Chapter 15 Modern Korean Art in the Japanese Colonial Period -- Influx of Western Culture before Japanese Colonization -- Introduction of New Painting Modes in the 1910s -- Quest for Modern Art in the 1920s -- Diversity of Modern Art in Colonial Korea -- Art and Military Emergency -- References -- Glossary -- Chapter 16 The Long Breath: Postwar Korean Art -- Reconstruction and Representation -- Abstraction and Medium -- Adventures in Experimental Art.

The Role of the State -- Korean Art in Circulation -- Encounters with the Everyday -- Art under Authoritarianism -- What Contemporary Art Means in Korean -- References -- Further Reading -- Glossary -- Chapter 17 Situating Contemporary Art of South Korea, 1980 to 2016 -- Historical Subjectivity Crisis and the Rise of Minjung -- The Emergence of Minjung Art -- The Two Phases of Minjung Art -- Alternatives to Polarity and Debates on Postmodernism -- Fast Forward: Cultural Turn and the Heterogeneity of Individual Voices -- Korean Art Within and Beyond the Borders -- Globalization, Biennales, and Alternative Spaces -- Korean Photography in Recent Decades -- Technology and New Media -- Collectivism, Public Sphere, and the Precarious -- Re-inscription of Collective Memory and Anonymous Narratives -- Diversity of Positions and Interests in the Twenty-First Century -- Shared Positionalities across Borders -- References -- Glossary -- Chapter 18 South Korean Cinema in the Age of Hallyu -- Three Films with Transnational Lens -- Only Icelanders Watch Movies at a Higher Clip than Koreans -- The Beach in Hong Sang-soo and the Neighbors in Lee Chang-dong -- Conclusion -- References -- Glossary -- Index -- EULA.

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