Korean True-view Landscape: Paintings by Chong Son (1676-1759) - Couverture rigide

Wansu, Choe

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ISBN 10 : 1872843719 ISBN 13 : 9781872843711

Editeur : Saffron Books, 2010

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Ch'oe Wan-su studied Korean History at Seoul National University (SNU). After finishing his degree at SNU in 1965, he worked as curator at the National Museum of Korea. Since 1966 he has been Chief Curator at the Kansong Art Museum in Seoul. He has taught graduate courses at various institutions, including Seoul National, Yeonse, Ehwa, Dongguk, and Chung'ang Universities. He has written articles and books on Buddhist art and Korean temples, Korean calligraphy, especially on the calligrapher Ch'usa Kim Chong-hi, and the true-view landscape paintings of Kyomjae Chong Son. Youngsook Pak studied at Ewha Woman's University in Seoul, and at the Universities of Bonn, Koln and Heidelberg in Germany, obtaining her PhD at Universitat Heidelberg in art history and sinology. She has organised exhibitions of Korean art in Ingelheim, Germany and in the British Museum. In 1989 she established courses on Korean art history in the Department of Art and Archaeology, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, where she still teaches. She has written articles and books on ancient Korean art, Koguryo murals, Silla royal tombs, and Korean Buddhist art. Roderick Whitfield studied at SOAS and at St Johns College, Cambridge, and wrote his PhD on Song painting in Princeton University, returning in 1966 to St Johns College as Research Fellow and was appointed Assistant Keeper of Chinese art at the British Museum in 1968. In 1984 he was appointed Professor of Chinese and East Asian Art at SOAS and Head of the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art. An international authority on Chinese painting and Buddhist art, he has written numerous articles and books. With Youngsook Pak, he organised the exhibition Treasures from Korea at the British Museum, and co-authored volumes in the series Handbook of Korean Art.

Revue de presse :

'Korean True-View Landscape: Paintings by Chong Son (1676-1759)' provides an unprecedented insight into the distinctive art and literati culture of Korea in the early eighteenth century. Ch ng S n's albums of landscape paintings celebrate the scenic beauty of Korean rivers and mountains, focusing on the capital Hanyang, now Seoul, the Han River, the East Sea and the world-famous Diamond Mountain. The author, Ch'oe Wan-su, Chief Curator of the Kansong Museum in Seoul, presents travelogues and poems by Ch ng S n's contemporaries, scholars and officials who were inspired to compose those remarkable texts when they too visited the same landmarks. Korean scholars habitually wrote in Chinese, and frequently referred to Chinese paragons of landscape beauty, even while extolling the superior virtues of their native land. Some of them travelled as diplomats to the Chinese capital and even sold Ch ng S n's paintings there at a handsome profit, though the artist himself had no opportunity to visit China or see Chinese paintings at first hand. Accordingly, this book illuminates contemporary relations between the two countries, as well as introducing each site in detail and explaining typical features of Korean architecture and customs. This edited translation, by Youngsook Pak and Roderick Whitfield, both internationally known in their respective fields of Korean and Chinese art, has been thoroughly prepared for western readers, both students and the general public, and provides additional explanatory notes and maps, not included in the original Korean edition. Includes words and glossaries in Korean and Chinese and Sino-Korean characters. --Sajid Rizvi, Commissioning Editor

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Saffron Books
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1872843719
• ISBN 13: 9781872843711
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 382