Pathways to Korean Culture: Paintings of the Joseon Dynasty, 1392-1910
- ISBN-10
- 1780233671
- ISBN-13
- 9781780233673
- Category
- Art, Korean
- Pages
- 392
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014
- Author
- Burglind Jungmann
Description
This book introduces Joseon painting in Korea to a wider public under various social, cultural, and political perspectives. In addition to the fairly well-known ink painting tradition of the literati elite, it investigates the role of women as artists and patrons, the utilization of ideals of Chinese antiquity for political purposes, the role of painting in foreign exchange and as means of escapism, the support of Buddhist projects in a society governed by Confucian ideology, and court projects done for the documentation of important events and for palace decoration. Rather than engaging in a continuous historical narrative along constructed lines of stylistic, iconographic, or technological evolution, the book investigates selected groups or “clusters” of objects, and by unwrapping the multiple layers of the personal, intellectual, aesthetic, religious, socio-political, and economical contexts within which they are embedded casts light on the conditions of specific time periods. It provides a survey of important developments in Korean art and visual culture over a period of five hundred years.
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