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Visual Representations of the Korean Nation-State: 1880s-1910s (2023)
Thesis
Son, J. Visual Representations of the Korean Nation-State: 1880s-1910s. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis investigates visual representations of the Korean nation-state from the 1880s to the 1910s and their impacts on state and nation-building of the period. After the opening of ports in 1897, Korea faced the task of reconciling the tradition... Read More about Visual Representations of the Korean Nation-State: 1880s-1910s.

Korean art and humor : tracing the development of terms and identity (2019)
Thesis
Warch, K. J. Korean art and humor : tracing the development of terms and identity. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis asks when humor was first used to describe or define Korean art and considers examples to the contrary and the context in which they arise. It attempts to trace the notion of humor as a continuous rhetoric in Korean art scholarship and pe... Read More about Korean art and humor : tracing the development of terms and identity.

Arts of the Goryeo Kingdom (2014)
Book Chapter
Horlyck, C. (2014). Arts of the Goryeo Kingdom. In C. Starkman, C. Horlyck, K. Lena, & Y. Song-mi (Eds.), Tradition and Innovation in Korean Art (26-45). The Museum of Fine Arts

Ways of Burial in Koryŏ Times (AD918-1392) (2014)
Book Chapter
Horlyck, C. (2014). Ways of Burial in Koryŏ Times (AD918-1392). In C. Horlyck, & M. J. Pettid (Eds.), Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in Korea: Ancient to Contemporary Times (83-111). Hawaii University Press. https://doi.org/10.21313/hawaii/9780824839680.003.0004

This chapter explores how people were interred during the Koryŏ dynasty. It focuses on means of disposal in vogue at this time, such as interment in stone chambers and in different types of pit graves. It also discusses grave locations and burial obj... Read More about Ways of Burial in Koryŏ Times (AD918-1392).

Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in Korea: Ancient to Contemporary Times (2014)
Book
Horlyck, C., & Pettid, M. J. (Eds.). (2014). Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in Korea: Ancient to Contemporary Times. University of Hawai'i Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824840150

Death and the activities and beliefs surrounding it can teach us much about the ideals and cultures of the living. While biologically death is an end to physical life, this break is not quite so apparent in its mental and spiritual aspects. Indeed, t... Read More about Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in Korea: Ancient to Contemporary Times.