J P Park

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A New Middle Kingdom: Painting and Cultural Politics in Late Chosŏn Korea (1700-1850)Hardcover, 9 October 2018

A New Middle Kingdom: Painting and Cultural Politics in Late Chosŏn Korea (1700-1850)
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Print Length
296 pages
Language
English
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Date Published
9 Oct 2018
ISBN-10
0295743255
ISBN-13
9780295743257

Description

Historians have claimed that when social stability returned to Korea after devastating invasions by the Japanese and Manchus around the turn of the seventeenth century, the late Chosŏn dynasty was a period of unprecedented economic and cultural renaissance, in which prosperity manifested itself in new programs and styles of visual art. A New Middle Kingdom questions this belief, claiming instead that true-view landscape and genre paintings were likely adopted to propagandize social harmony under Chosŏn rule and to justify the status, wealth, and land grabs of the ruling class. This book also documents the popularity of art books from China and their misunderstanding by Koreans and, most controversially, Korean enthusiasm for artistic programs from Edo Japan, thus challenging academic stereotypes and nationalistic tendencies in the scholarship about the Chosŏn period. As the first truly interdisciplinary study of Korean art, A New Middle Kingdom points to realities of late Chosŏn society that its visual art seemed to hide and deny.

A William Sangki and Nanhee Min Hahn Book

Product Details

Author:
J P Park
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
9 October 2018
Dimensions:
25.91 x 18.54 x 2.54 cm
ISBN-10:
0295743255
ISBN-13:
9780295743257
Language:
English
Location:
Seattle
Pages:
296
Weight:
1111.3 gm

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