- Publisher
- University of Florida Press
- Published
- 2018
- Shelf
- culture: Korea
- ISBN
- 9781683400004
Korea
Arts of Korea: Histories, Challenges, and Perspectives
Jason Steuber & Allysa B. Peyton (eds.)
A survey of Korean art from the tomb murals to the twentieth century, written by curators and argued rather than narrated.
Why read it
It is honest about a problem the glossier surveys avoid. Korean art has spent most of its written history being described as a bridge between China and Japan, and this book keeps asking who decided that and what it hid. Read it for the ceramics chapters if nothing else. The moon jar makes more sense once you know what a potter was allowed to want.
Why own it
It is a reference, and an unusually candid one. The essays disagree with each other in print, which is rarer in an art survey than it should be.
Who it is for
Anyone who knows Korean design only through the last twenty years and wants the thousand before it.
Opens a search on AbeBooks, a network of independent and antiquarian sellers, which is where a good part of this shelf has to be found, because it is out of print.
Read next
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