Korean true-view landscape : paintings by Chŏng Sŏn (1676-1759)
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Korean true-view landscape : paintings by Chŏng Sŏn (1676-1759)
（Saffron Korea library, no. 1）
Saffron Books, c2005
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Kyŏmjae Chŏng Sŏn chingyŏng sansu
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Kyŏmjae Chŏng Son chingyŏng sansu
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Primary sources: p. 361-363
Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-367) and index
"This edition is developed by the editors/translators from Kyŏmjae Chŏng Sŏn chingyŏng sansu (The art of Kyomjae Chŏng Sŏn [ISBN 89-08-04013-7-06650]), originally published in 1993 by Pommunsa [Bumwoosa], Seoul" -- T.p. verso
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Description
"Korean True-View Landscape: Paintings by Chong Son (1676-1759)" provides an unprecedented insight into the distinctive art and literati culture of Korea in the early eighteenth century. Chong Son's albums of landscape paintings celebrate the scenic beauty of Korean rivers and mountains, focusing on the capital Hanyang, now Seoul, the Han River, the East Sea and the world-famous Diamond Mountain. The author, Ch'oe Wan-su, Chief Curator of the Kansong Museum in Seoul, presents travelogues and poems by Chong Son's contemporaries, scholars and officials who were inspired to compose those remarkable texts when they too visited the same landmarks. Korean scholars habitually wrote in Chinese, and frequently referred to Chinese paragons of landscape beauty, even while extolling the superior virtues of their native land. Some of them travelled as diplomats to the Chinese capital and even sold Chong Son's paintings there at a handsome profit, though the artist himself had no opportunity to visit China or see Chinese paintings at first hand.
Accordingly, this book illuminates contemporary relations between the two countries, as well as introducing each site in detail and explaining typical features of Korean architecture and customs. This edited translation, by Youngsook Pak and Roderick Whitfield, both internationally known in their respective fields of Korean and Chinese art, has been thoroughly prepared for western readers, both students and the general public, and provides additional explanatory notes and maps, not included in the original Korean edition. It includes words and glossaries in Korean and Chinese and Sino-Korean characters.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents Maps Preface Introduction Ky?mjae's Family Background 21 Korean Neo-Confucianism and the Yulgok School The Development of Korean Character in Literature and Art The Korean Response to the Manchu Invasions Political Developments 27 Ky?mjae Ch?ng S?n's Early Life 27 Ky?mjae's Studies in Painting 27 Ky?mjae's First Journey to Diamond Mountain and the 1711 Album 29 Creating the True-view Method 33 Ky?mjae's Official Career 37 Crown Prince Y?ng'in 41 Return to the Capital 45 Travels in Haeak 49 Album of the Four Districts 53 Album of Scenes in Kwandong 53 Paintings of the Capital and Suburbs 55 Boating Excursions 55 Return to Diamond Mountain in 1747 57 The Office of Copying and Restoration 57 Ky?mjae's Reputation in China 59 Ky?mjae's Late Years 63 Kwanajae's Epitaph for Master Ch?ng I K?mgangsan, Diamond Mountain 71 Plates 1-19 II Outstanding Scenery of the East Sea 137 Plates 20-31 III Excursions by Boat along the Han River Plates 32-81 IV Beauty Spots in the Provinces Plates 82-100 Abbreviations Primary Sources Selected Bibliography Glossary-Index
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