True-view Landscape in Korean Painting of the late Joseon Period (17th-20th century)
VIEW EVENT DETAILSTrue-view Landscape of the Late Joseon Period (17~20th Century)
A genre of Korean landscape painting termed “true-view” landscape painting refers to paintings of scenery that truly existed in Korea, and that flowered during the seventeenth century through the beginning of the nineteenth century. After the fall of Ming (1644), Koreans became increasingly conscious about their own cultural identity, and came to investigate not only their own historical and cultural heritage, but also their own land of exceptional beauty. This coincided with the beginning of the development of the School of Practical Learning in Qing China which Korean scholars avidly absorbed and assimilated into their own cultural environment. It is in this multi-layered cultural and intellectual background that the "true-view" landscape painting evolved. It is now acclaimed to be the best group of Joseon dynasty paintings that expresses the uniquely Korean inspiration, creative energy, and the ethos of Korean people.
Yi Song’mi 李成美
Yi Song-mi, Emerita of Art History at the Academy of Korean Studies, previously served as Dean of the Graduate School at the Academy, Professor and Director of the University museum at Duksung Women’s University in Seoul. She has been a member of the National History Council of Korea and has served as the President of Korean Art History Association. In February, 2001, she held the 21st Franklin Murphy Lectureship at the University of Kansas. In April, 2014, she served as the Special Lecturer at the Tang Center for East Asian Art History at Princeton University. Since the early 1990s, she has been conducting in-depth research into the court documents of the Joseon dynasty collectively known as uigwe (book of state rites). In September of 2011, she was awarded the medal of the "Order of Civil Merit (camellia)" from the government for her advisory work for the Ministry of foreign Affairs and Trade in the negotiation for the return of the uigwe documents from France as well as for her research and publications on them.
Professor Yi was educated at Seoul National University (B.A.), UC Berkeley (M.A.), and Princeton University (Ph. D.). Her recent publications on Korean painting include Searching for Modernity: Western Influence and True-View Landscape in Korean Painting of the Late Chosŏn Period (2014), the award winning Joseon Dynasty books of Royal Wedding in Art Historical Perspective (Korean, 2008), Korean Landscape Painting: Continuity and Innovation Through the Ages (2006).