This notable catalogue―the first English-language publication on the subject―highlights the art of the early period (1392–1592) of Korea’s revolutionary Joseon dynasty. The Joseon rulers replaced the Buddhist establishment and re-created a Korean society informed on every level by Neo-Confucian ideals. They supported the production of innovative secular art inspired by past traditions, both native and from the broader Confucian world. Yet despite official policies, court-sponsored Buddhist art endured, contributing to the rich complexity of the early Joseon culture

Special Lecture on Korean Paintings provides readers with a comprehensive and readable introduction to major aspects of classic Korean art. The volume explores the vast heritage of Korean paintings, providing a rich panorama of information that stretches across the entire spectrum of Korean paintings, which will have wide appeal, not least to art lovers and students of Korean Studies

Book about traditional Korean painting

Landscape Kazakhstan is the beauty and grandeur of the unique nature of Kazakhstan through the eyes of a talented photographer Farhat Kabdykairov. This album is the result of many years of work of the photographer, his travels to the most picturesque places of our country

How do East Asian cultural heritages shape film? How are these legacies being revived, or even re-created, by contemporary filmmakers? This collection examines the dynamic interactions between East Asian cultural heritages – “traditional” elements including martial arts, music, landscape, aesthetics, stage performances, and legends – and cinemas in mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea

This book explores Korean court music, which has an understated beauty and calmness, and folk music

Comprehensive study of Iran

It considers how a country's art is received abroad, together with the difficulties faced by curators if they want to show this work outside the country's borders.The concept of art including the question of its significance to society.

Demonstrates how Chinese literary traditions have echoed throughout Japan and Korea for more than 1,000 years. Collection includes landscape paintings, figure paintings, ceramics, lacquer ware and calligraphic scrolls. Chinese classical poems are an international culture code in East Asia. Many diverse factors account for the phenomenon of cross-cultural merging in this region. Using works from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, this catalogue concentrates on the classical Chinese poetry that Japanese and Korean elites learned and then applied to their own arts

Understanding Korean Art: From the Prehistoric through the Modern Day is one of a series of five textbooks put forth by the Korean Cultural Research Institute which was founded in 1958 by the Ewha Womans University. The series, Ewha’s Korea Studies Series for Globalization, was written with the purpose of promoting understanding and appreciation for Korean studies and culture around the globe and to create a better understanding of Korea in the modern world