Introduction

Module outline, updated 11 November 23

SOAS Marking guidelines

Recommendations for improving practice

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

On Korean Romanisation

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

Terminologies

Announcements

Assignment 1 (AS1) – 2023/24

Test 1 (TS1) – 2023/24

Revision images

Week 1

Week One Handout

Lecture 1

Core reading: Horlyck and Priewe

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

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

Ko Yu Seop, 1905-1944

McKillop, V&amp;A Ceramic Galleries lecture images

Initial understandings and questions about Korean art.

Week 2

Lecture 2 part one

Lecture 2 part two

Core Reading: Kumja Paik Kim discusses the art of the Goryeo Dynasty.

Handout for Lecture 2

San Francisco Museum study guide to the Koryo period

Koryo ladies and the encouragement of Buddhism in Yuan China

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

Week 3

Lecture 3

Lecture 3, part 2

handout for Week 3 lecture

Core reading, Jae-yeol Kim, Goryeo celadon.

Core reading: Deuchler, Connoisseurs and Artisans

Goryeo, the glory of Korea, exhibition booklet, National Museum of Korea, 2019

Horlyck article on gilded celadon

Horlyck article on gilded celadon

Wood, Nigel. “The Technology of Korean Celadon Wares,” 2006

Short videos from the National Museum of Korea

Korean Art &amp; Archaeology 6 (2012): 8-21. Lee Jongmin, Relocations of Main Celadon Production Sites.

Forum Week 3, Discussion about Goryeo celadon

Week 4

Lecture 4

Lecture 4 part 2

Handout Week 4

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]

CORE READING: 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]

Goryeo Buddhist painting in an interregional context

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

Beth 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.

'Buddhist Art and Culture in Korea' 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.

Video of of a demonstration of illuminated sutra painting

Useful Sutra Painting Demonstration and Talk in English

Buddhist Art of North Korea - Documentation in Gelatin Dry Plates

Week 4 seminar

Goryeo Buddhist paintings and sutras

Week 5

Lecture 5

Lecture 5 part 2

Lecture 5 Handout

Core Reading: Horlyck - Arts and Culture in the Confucian State of Joseon

Soyoung Lee. “Art and Patronage in the Early Joseon.”

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."

Portraits of the Joseon Dynasty

Royal Procession to the Ancestral Tomb in Hwaseong

Roles of Elite Women in the Development of Joseon Buddhist Art

Song Un-sok. “Buddhism and Art in the Joseon Royal House: Buddhist Sculpture and Painting.” In Treasures from Korea: Arts and Culture of the Joseon Dynasty 1392-1910, Exh. Cat. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2014, 52-67.

Lee Bae-yong. Women in Korean History. Seoul: Ewha Womans University Press, 2008, 14-81.

Ro Myoung-gu and Park Su-hee, ed. The King at the Palace: Joseon Royal Court Culture at the National Palace Museum of Korea. Seoul: National Palace Museum of Korea, 2015, 208-231.

Sakyamuni Triad painting commissioned by Queen Munjeong in 1565

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.

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.

McKillop, V&A Ceramic Galleries lecture images

Korean Art & Archaeology 6 (2012): 8-21. Lee Jongmin, Relocations of Main Celadon Production Sites.