Buddhist Sculpture
Buddhist Sculpture

Author: Youngsook Pak

Publisher: Laurence King Publishing

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 474

ISBN-13: 9781856693585

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Originally published: Seoul, Korea: Yekyong Pub. Co., c2002.

The Poetry [of] Ink
The Poetry [of] Ink

Author: Pierre Cambon

Publisher: Reunion Des Musees Nationaux

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13:

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The Poetry of Ink: The Korean Literati Trad ition 1392-1910 is the catalogue of the Spring 2005 exhibition of Korean literati painting and calligraphy at the Mus, e Guimet, the French Nation al Asian Art Museum, in Paris. Described by TI ME Asia as A Brush With Perfection: A dazzling exhibition of Korean art recalls a lost

Word of God, Art of Man
Word of God, Art of Man

Author: Fahmida Suleman

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 360

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Muslim reverence for the Qur'an as the Word of God has manifested itself in various artistic forms throughout history and up to the present day. This innovative collection of essays explores creative expressions of the Qur'an in a wide range of media. Contributors include museum curators and leading academics in art and architectural history, palaeography and material anthropology, and their studies span four continents and cover topics from medieval coins and early illuminated copies of the Qur'an to contemporary painting. They offer a multidisciplinary approach to the questions of how, why and in what contexts the Qur'an has inspired Muslim artists and craftspeople to adorn the spaces they inhabit and the objects they cherish with its verses. The volume includes 120 colour illustrations, some published for the first time, and an extensive bibliography.

Korea Around 1900
Korea Around 1900

Author: Christina Hee-Yeon Han

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 136

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This book of landscape and genre paintings by the 19th-century Korean artist Gisan documents traditional daily life in Korea around 1900. Gisan worked in Korean port cities and as a result his work was disseminated and sold internationally. In fact, the number of his works in North American and European collections far surpasses that found in Korea. Korea Around 1900 includes 27 poster-format paintings from the collections of the Royal Ontario Museum as well as 23 small-format paintings from the National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden, Netherlands. The ink-and-colour paintings depict a vanished Korea of pastoral landscapes, traditional customs and costume, and the rhythm of the seasons.

Korea
Korea

Author: Jane Portal

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 252

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The publication of this general introduction to the art and archaeology of Korea coincides with the new permanent Korea gallery at the British Museum, promoting a wider interest in the country and its history. Aimed at a non-specialist audience, this book is readable and well illustrated. It and covers a vast time period from the Neolithic, c.6000 BC, to the present day. The remarkable culture of this country gradually unfolds through the descriptions and illustrations of Korean art, decorative objects, pottery and monuments, sculpture, crafts and ceramics.