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"Korean painters participated in two major cultural trends of the late Chos�on period in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: inquiry into things Korean and investigation of things Western. Departing from Chinese sources long considered authoritative, they developed the distinctly Korean mo...
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University of Washington Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Seattle : |
| Publication Dates: | [2015] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Franklin D. Murphy lecture series
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| Summary: |
"Korean painters participated in two major cultural trends of the late Chos�on period in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: inquiry into things Korean and investigation of things Western. Departing from Chinese sources long considered authoritative, they developed the distinctly Korean mode known as "true-view" landscape painting for depicting the scenery of their own country. Rooted in the documentary painting of the early Chos�on period and displaying special techniques developed to describe distinctive features of Korea's topography, true-view paintings portray the most exemplar |
| Carrier Form: | viii, 222 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-198) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780295993935 (hardback : alkaline paper) : 0295993936 (hardback : alkaline paper) |
| Index Number: | ND1366 |
| CLC: | J205.312 |
| Call Number: | J205.312/Y513 |
| Contents: | Introduction -- Historical and intellectual background of the late Chos�on period -- Western influence on Korean painting -- True-view landscape painting. |