Introduction

Announcements

Module Information updated

SOAS Marking guidelines 22/23

Recommendations for improving practice

On your essay and end'of-term 'Slide test'

On Korean Romanisation

Link to Koreana Magazine

Link to The Journal of Korean Art and Archaeology

Link to The Review of Korean Studies

Metropolitan Museum of Art timeline

Scans of early 20th century books on Korea, incl ones published by the Government-General of Korea

Bibliographies on Korea-related subjects

Slide Test Revision Images

Ko Yu Seop

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Terminologies

Week 1

Lecture 1

Core reading: Horlyck and Priewe

What is Art History?

What comes to mind when you think about Korean art?

Full translation of Yanagi's Chosen no bijutsu (Korean art)

Additional reading related to lecture 1 by Horlyck, SOAS Bulletin 2013

Seth, Michael J., A Concise History of Korea: From the Neolithic Period Through the Nineteenth Century. Lanham: Rowman &amp; Littlefield Publishers, 2006.

Lee Ki-baik. A New History of Korea.

Full translation of Yanagi's Chosen no bijutsu (Korean art)

Additional reading related to lecture 1 by Horlyck, SOAS Bulletin 2013

Beth's presentation about V&amp;A Ceramic Galleries

Week 2

Summary of lecture

Useful study guide to the Koryo period

List 3 points from the Week 2 Core reading that you found interesting/thought-provoking/note-worthy

Handout for Week 2 lecture

Summary of lecture powerpoint

Further reading on Goryeo women sent as tributary maidens to the Yuan court

Core Reading

Further reading on Goryeo women sent as tributary maidens to the Yuan court

Week 3

Summary of lecture

Tae Koryŏ 918-2018 : kŭ ch'allanhan tojŏn : t'ŭkpyŏljŏn = Goryeo : the glory of Korea : special exhibition. Accompanied by a supplementary booklet with English translation.

Core reading: Deuchler

Horlyck article on gilded celadon

Wood, Nigel. “The Technology of Korean Celadon Wares,” in Korean Art from the Gompertz and Other Collections in the Fitzwilliam Museum, edited by Regina Krahl, 12-24. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

handout for Week 3 lecture

Summary of lecture powerpoint

Core reading: Deuchler

Horlyck article on gilded celadon

Wood, Nigel. “The Technology of Korean Celadon Wares,” in Korean Art from the Gompertz and Other Collections in the Fitzwilliam Museum, edited by Regina Krahl, 12-24. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

National Museum of Korea dragon-shaped ewer

Core reading, Kim, Goryeo celadon.

International Journal of Korean Archaeology articles about celadon

Week 4

Handout Week 4

Week 4 Lecture ppt

CORE READING: Read this for historical context: McBride, Richard D. "Koryŏ Buddhist Paintings and the Cult of Amitābha: Visions of a Hwaŏm-Inspired Pure Land." Journal of Korean Religions 6, no. 1 (2015): 93-130. [ON JSTOR]

CORE READING: Wang, Ching-ling. “True Identity: Reconsidering a Fourteenth-Century Buddhist Painting of the Water-Moon Avalokiteśvara in the Rijksmuseum.” The Rijksmuseum Bulletin 66, no. 2 (2018), pp. 100-119. [On JSTOR]

McKillop, "A Korean Illuminated Manuscript," British Library Journal, 1998

Pak Youngsook. “Goryeo Illuminated Buddhist Scriptures: Transmission of Text and Images,” Goryeo dynasty: Korea's age of enlightenment, 918-1392. San Francisco: Asian Art Museum, 2003, pp. 96-104.

Journal of Korean Art and Archaeology 7 2013

Useful Sutra Painting Demonstration and Talk in English

Excellent video of illuminated sutra painting

Pak Youngsook. “The Korean Art Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in Smith, Judith (ed.). Arts of Korea. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1998, pp. 423-439.

summary of lecture

Buddhist Art of North Korea - Documentation in Gelatin Dry Plates

Beth McKillop, "A Korean Illuminated Manuscript," British Library Journal, 1998

Journal of Korean Art and Archaeology 7 2013

Pak Youngsook. “The Korean Art Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in Smith, Judith (ed.). Arts of Korea. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1998, pp. 423-439.

Goryeo Buddhist painting in an interregional context

Weeks 5, 6 and 7

Summary of week 5 lecture

WEEK 5 handout

Extra images Week 5 class

WEEK 5 CORE READING: Horlyck - Arts and Culture in the Confucian State of Joseon

WEEK 5 CORE READING: Horlyck - Arts and Culture in the Confucian State of Joseon

• Soyoung Lee. “Art and Patronage in the Early Joseon,” in Lee Soyoung. Art of the Korean Renaissance, 1400-1600. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; New Haven : Yale University Press, c2009, pp. 15-64.

Kim Hongnam. “Exploring Eighteenth-Century Court Arts,” in Kim Hongnam (ed.). Korean Art of the Eighteenth Century. Splendour and Simplicity. New York: The Asia Society, 1993, pp. 35-57.

Jahyun Kim Haboush. “Creating a Society of Civil Culture: The Early Joseon, 1392-1592,” in Lee Soyoung. Art of the Korean Renaissance, 1400-1600. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; New Haven : Yale University Press, c2009, pp. 3-14.

Sunpyo Hong and Chin-sung Chang. “Peace Under Heaven: Confucianism and Painting in Early Joseon Korea,” in Lee Soyoung. Art of the Korean Renaissance, 1400-1600. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; New Haven : Yale University Press, c2009, pp. 65-90.

Seth, Michael J., A Concise History of Korea: From the Neolithic Period Through the Nineteenth Century. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006.

Beth's presentation about V&A Ceramic Galleries