Global E-school on Korean Studies
Introduction to Korean Art
Spring 2013 Session (from 12th February until 14th May, 2013)
Tuesday 12:30 pm – 2.00 pm
E-school on Korean Studies
Level: MA (or advanced undergraduate)
Credits: 2 ECTS
Global E-School Partner Institutions
CEU, Budapest; ELTE, Budapest; University of Vienna, Austria; University of Bucharest,
Romania; Romanian Academy of Science; State University of Petrozavodsk (PetrSU),
Russia; METU (Middle East Technical University), Ankara, Turkey; Gumilyov Eurasian
National University (ENU), Astana, Kazakhstan.
Faculty
Ariane PERRIN, Centre for Korean Studies of UMR 8173 “China, Korea, Japan” CNRSEHESS;
Beatrix MECSI, Korean Studies Department, Institute of East Asian Studies, Eötvös
Loránd University (ELTE) Budapest.
Aims of the course
The course will familiarize students with the main issues in Korean art by surveying the
key episodes in the development of material and visual culture on the Korean peninsula,
from the Three Kingdoms period to the early twentieth century. It will cover the
following topics: Funerary art of the Three Kingdoms period (57 BC-AD 668), Buddhist
art and architecture, Korean ceramics, Koryŏ Buddhist paintings, Topics in Buddhist
iconography, Ritual shrine paintings linked to Confucian-style ancestor worship, Folk
minhwa paintings and Decorative screens of the Chosŏn period.
Format
This course offered within the framework of the Global E-School Project on Korean
Studies in Eurasia, funded by the Korea Foundation and hosted by CEU. The course
combines online (real-time) sessions, offered via Cisco WebEx (enabling up to nine
universities to join the discussion), and offline seminars.
Learning outcomes
Successful completion of the course will enable students to acquire:
- a good understanding of Korean art, its specific features and important relics and
monuments from the Three Kingdoms period until the end of the Chosŏn period.
(4th-early 20th century).
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Requirements and assessment
Class attendance: 20%
Quiz: 40%
Article review (1,000 words): 40% (deadline: 28th May, 2013)
Session
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Date
Topic
12
Feb.
19
Feb.
Introduction, methodology
Outline of the course
Funerary art of the Three
Kingdoms period (1):
The Koguryŏ painted tombs
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Funerary art of the Three
Feb.
Kingdoms period (2): The tomb of
King Muryŏng of Paekche and
Silla royal tombs
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Buddhist art and architecture of
March the Three Kingdoms period
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Art of the Unified Silla Kingdom:
March Sŏkkuram and Pulguksa
19
Koryŏ Buddhist painting
March
9
Topics in Chosŏn Buddhist Art:
April iconography of Bodhidharma and
Toksŏng
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Confucian ancestor worship and
April ritual shrine paintings
23
Chosŏn portrait painting
April
30
Folk minhwa paintings of the
April Chosŏn period
7 May Korean Ceramics
14
May
Decorative Screens of the Chosŏn
period
Lecturers
Beatrix
MECSI
Ariane
PERRIN
Lecture
location
CEU/ELTE,
Budapest
Paris Diderot
Ariane
PERRIN
Paris Diderot
Ariane
PERRIN
Beatrix
MECSI
Beatrix
MECSI
Beatrix
MECSI
Paris Diderot
Ariane
PERRIN
Beatrix
MECSI
Ariane
PERRIN
Beatrix
MECSI
Ariane
PERRIN
Paris Diderot
CEU/ ELTE,
Budapest
CEU/ ELTE,
Budapest
CEU/ ELTE,
Budapest
CEU/ELTE,
Budapest
Paris Diderot
CEU/ELTE,
Budapest
Paris Diderot
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WEEK 1 (12th February, 2013)
Introduction – Methodology, Outline of the course.
Specific features of Korean art, methodological questions.
History of art history in Korea
(Beatrix MECSI)
Readings:
HATT, Michael- KLONK, Charlotte: ART HISTORY. A Critical Introduction to Its
Methods. Manchester University Press: Manchester and New York, 2006.
KIM, Won-yong: Art and Archaeology of Ancient Korea. The Korea Taekwang
Publishing Co., Seoul, Korea, 1986, pp.249-286.
MECSI, Beatrix: „한국의 미술 역사를 쓰기 : 일본 식민지 시대의 영향 (Writing art
histories of Korea: The Impact of the Japanese Colonial Era)”, VISUAL (Annual
publication by the Center for Visual Studies, School of Visual Arts), Korea National
University of Arts, Seoul, 2011 Vol.8. pp.49-74.
WEEK 2 (19th February, 2013)
Funerary art of the Three Kingdoms period (1) : The Koguryŏ painted tombs
(Ariane PERRIN)
Readings:
-BARNES, Gina L. State Formation in Korea: Historical and Archaeological
Perspectives. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon, 2001.
-BARNES, Gina L. China, Korea and Japan: The Rise of Civilization in East Asia.
London: Thames and Hudson, 1993.
-NELSON, Sarah M. The Archaeology of Korea. Cambridge: University Press, 1993.
WEEK 3 (26th February, 2013)
Funerary art of the Three Kingdoms period (2): The tomb of King Muryŏng of
Paekche and Silla royal tombs (Ariane PERRIN)
Readings:
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-Gongju National Museum. Gongju National Museum: Permanent collection. Gongju:
Gongju National Museum, 2011.
-Gyeongju National Museum. Gyeongju National Museum. Exhibition catalogue. Seoul:
Tongcheon publishing Co., 2010.
-Buyeo National Museum. Buyeo National Museum. Museum catalogue. Seoul: Samhwa
ch’ulp’ansa, 1997.
WEEK 4 (5th March, 2013)
Buddhist art and architecture of the Three Kingdoms period (Ariane PERRIN)
Readings:
-PAK, Youngsook et Roderick WHITFIELD. Handbook of Korean Art: Buddhist
Sculpture. London: Laurence, 2003.
-SMITH, Judith (ed.). Arts of Korea. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1998.
-WASHIZUKA, Horimitsu et al. Transmitting the Forms of Divinity: Early Buddhist Art
from Korea and Japan. New York: London: Harry N. Abrams, 2003.
WEEK 5 (12th March, 2013)
Art of the Unified Silla Kingdom: Sŏkkuram and Pulguksa (Beatrix MECSI)
Readings:
KIM, Lena. Buddhist Sculpture of Korea (Korean Culture Series), Hollym International,
2007.
PAK, Youngsook et Roderick WHITFIELD. Handbook of Korean Art: Buddhist
Sculpture . London: Laurence, 2003.
YI, Song-mi. "Problems concerning the Sokkuram Cave Temple on Kyongju," Seoul
Journal of Korean Studies, vol. 1, 1988, pp. 25-47
WEEK 6 (19th March, 2013)
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Koryŏ Buddhist Painting (Beatrix MECSI)
Readings:
CHUNG, Woothak: Identity of Goryeo Buddhist Painting. The International Journal of
Korean Art and Archaeology, vol. 4. 2010: 14-29
KIM, Kumja Paik (ed.), Goryeo Dynasty. Korea’s Age of Enlightenment 918-1392. Asian
Art Museum San Francisco in cooperation with the National Museum of Korea and the
Nara National Museum, 2003.
Masterpieces of Goryeo Buddhist Paintings. Exhibition catalogue, National Museum of
Korea, 2010.
WEEK 7 (9th April, 2013)
Topics in Chosŏn Buddhist Art: Iconography of Bodhidharma and Toksŏng
(MECSI Beatrix)
Readings:
MECSI, Beatrix: „Dokseong: Korea's Mysterious Lonely Saint”. In: Mélanges offerts à
Marc Orange et Alexandre Guillemoz. Cahiers d’Études Coréennes 8. Paris: Institut
d’Études Coréennes, Collège de France pp. 357-365. (2010) (ISSN 0769-7295)
MECSI, Beatrix: „The Power on Images on Texts Re-Examined: The Case of
Bodhidharma’s Crossing and the Mass-Consumtion of Bodhidharma-images in Japan and
Contemporary South Korea”, Oriental Archive (Archiv Orientalní), Quarterly Journal of
African and Asian Studies, Oriental Institute, Prague, ISSN 0044-8699,Volume 76/ 2008,
pp. 217-249.
WEEK 8 (16th April, 2013)
Confucian ancestor worship and ritual shrine paintings (Ariane PERRIN)
Readings:
-DEUCHLER, Martina. The Confucian transformation of Korea: A study of society and
ideology. Cambridge, Mass. : Council of East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1992.
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-KIM HABOUSH, JaHyun and Martina DEUCHLER (ed.). Culture and the state in late
Chosŏn Korea. Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Asia Center :
Distributed by Harvard University Press, 1999.
-LEE, Suyoung. Art of the Korean Renaissance, 1400-1600. New York: Metropolitan
Museum of Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009.
-PERRIN, Ariane. “Homage to the Dead: The Ancestor Shrine Paintings of Chosŏn
Korea”. Arts of Asia, Hong Kong, March-April 2010.
WEEK 9 (23rd April, 2013)
Chosŏn portrait painting (Beatrix MECSI)
CHO, Sunmie: Faces from the Past: Portrait Paintings. Korean Cultural Heritage. Vol.1.
Fine Arts, Korea Foundation, 1994: 76-83
CHO, Sunmie: Great Korean Portraits. Immortal Images of the Noble and the Brave.
Dolbegae Publishers, 2010.
Portraits of the Joseon Dynasty. Journal of Korean Art and Archaeology, vol.5. 2011:871
The Secret of the Joseon Portraits (Ch'osanghwa ŭi pimil) . Exhibition Catalogue,
National Museum of Korea, 2011.
Portraits of the Joseon Dynasty. Korea Journal, vol.45, No.2. Summer 2005: 107-215
WEEK 10 (30th April, 2013)
Folk minhwa paintings of the Chosŏn period (Ariane PERRIN)
Readings:
-COVELL, Alan Carter. Folk Art and Magic _ Shamanism in Korea. Seoul: Hollym,
1986.
-Korean Dreams _ Paintings & Screens of the Joseon Dynasty. The Lee Ufan Collection
in the Musée Guimet in Paris. Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2009.
-YOON, Yeolsu. Handbook of Korean Art: Folk painting. London: Laurence King, 2003.
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WEEK 11 (7th May, 2013)
Korean Ceramics (Beatrix MECSI)
PAK, Youngsook and WHITFIELD, Roderick: Earthenware and Celadon. Handbook of
Korean Art, Yekyong, Seoul, 2002
KIM, Jae-yeol: White Porcelain and Punch’ŏng ware. Handbook of Korean Art,
Yekyong, Seoul, 2002
CHOI, Kun and Chang, Ki-hoon (eds.): Hall of Ceramic Culture. Gyeonggi Ceramic
Museum, 2008
WEEK 12 (14th May, 2013)
Decorative screens of the Chosŏn period (Ariane PERRIN)
Readings:
-Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. Hopes and Aspirations: Decorative Painting of
Korea. San Francisco: Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 1998.
-BLACK, Kay E. and Edward W. WAGNER. "Ch'aekkori Paintings: A Korean Jigsaw
Puzzle." Archives of Asian Art, 46 (1993): 63-75.
-LACHMAN, Charles. The Ten Symbols of Longevity_ An Important Korean Folding
Screen in the Collection of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of
Oregon. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006.
-McCUNE, Evelyn B. The Inner Art: Korean Screens 한국의 병풍. Berkeley, California:
Asia Humanities Press and Seoul: Po Chin Chai Co., Ltd., 1983.
-YI, Song-mi. “The Screen of the Five Peaks of the Choson Dynasty. Oriental Art, 42:4
(Winter 1996): 13-24.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 28th May, 2013
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