Chaekgeori : the power and pleasure of possessions in Korean painted screens

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Тематические рубрики

• Art - Painting of Korea
• Chaekgeori (Painting) - Exhibitions
• Screen painting, Korean - Chosŏn dynasty, 1392-1910 - Exhibitions

Аннотация

Chaekgeori explores the genre of Korean still-life painting known as chaekgeori (loosely translated as 'books and things'). Encouraged and popularized by King Jeongjo (1752-1800, r. 1776-1800) as a political tool to promote societal conservatism against an influx of ideas from abroad, chaekgeori was one of the most enduring and prolific art forms of Korea's Joseon dynasty (1392-1910). It depicts material commodities as symbolic embodiments of knowledge, power, and social reform. Chaekgeori its popularity in Korea for more than two centuries, and remains a force in Korean .