Art of the Korean Renaissance, 1400-1600

I am happy with the book. The art works are awesome!!! And the writing are very helping. Hope it would be bigger so the landscapes could be better viewed.

Soyoung Lee is the curator of Korean Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and this catalogue was from her outstanding exhibit there. She is a fine scholar (Columbia University) and excellent presenter (talks). Fascinating!

This book was purchased to compare paintings on sliding doors and screens in Korea compared to those in Japan. However the most interesting conclusion in this book is the direction Korea took in the renaissance period to become a lay society based on Chinese scholarship and to reduce the power of Buddhist temples and the military, becoming thus Athens vs Japan's Sparta. Too bad that many art works of the period no longer exist.