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	JSMA: Collection:Korean Art
		This exhibition consists of hanging scrolls and folding screens illustrating the richness and diversity of Korean painting, ranging from the subtle ink monochrome tradition favored by the scholarly elite, to the bold and colorful imagery associated with folk art and the imperial court.
		Keith lived in Asia for many years, recording scenes of everyday life first in paintings and later by using traditional woodblock printing; she was also one of the first Westerners to depict the topography, costumes and social customs of Korea.
		In 1937, The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (then the UO Museum of Art) became the first university art museum to exhibit Keith's work, and in 1974 it mounted the first retrospective subsequent to her death in 1956.
	uoma.uoregon.edu /collection/korean (258 words)

	Welcome to the Korean Cultural Service
		The earliest known Korean paintings were murals painted on the walls of tombs of the Three Kingdoms period (53 B.C. The paintings of Goguryeo were generally dynamic and rhythmic, those of Baekje elegant and refined, and those of Silla somewhat speculative and meticulous.
		Some of the earliest extant Korean writings are poems, called hyangga, written during the Unified Silla period (A.D. 668-935) using Chinese characters phonetically to represent the sounds of the Korean language, which as yet lacked a native alphabet.
		During the Goryeo period and the later Joseon period, Korean literature of the upper class, mostly written in classical Chinese, was characterized by an emphasis on philosophic expositions on the Chinese classics, an art that was essential for government service, the only respectable avenue to success outside of teaching.
	www.koreanculture.org /06about_korea/culture_art.htm (1140 words)

	KOREAN PAINTING
		One of the difficulties in studying Korean art is that conflict which has been so much a feature of life on the Korean peninsula through the ages has destroyed so much of what certainly existed in prior periods.
		Korean painters were free to pursue their own development and it was in the eighteenth century when painting in China was losing its force that Korean painting really came into its own.
		Kim Chong-hui is a towering figure in the art scene of this period and is without equal in his effect on the direction of Korean art during this period.
	www.asia-art.net /korean_paint.html (1260 words)

	Korean art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Korean art is the art of the people who were the ancestors of modern Koreans, the art of the preceding states of Korean history, and modern kayla Korean art.
		Korean folk music or pansori is the base from which most new music originates being strongly simple and rhythmic.
		Korean stage set design again has a long history and has always drawn inspiration from landscapes, beginning with outdoor theatre, and replicating this by the use of screens within court and temple stagings of rituals and plays.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Korean_art (4295 words)

	The Korean Community in Albuquerque, New Mexico
		Korean immigration to the US began when they were brought in to replace striking Chinese and Japanese laborers on sugar plantations in Hawaii, In the years 1903-1905, between seven and eight thousand Korean contract laborers, along with several wives an children, came to Hawaii.
		Koreans born in the United States tend to attend church less frequently, in part due to not speaking the language as fluently, and also due to their relative comfort in American culture.
		Korean dance is differs from Western ballet in that ballet attempts to convey exterior beauty and skill from precisely controlled and yet elaborate, large-scale movement of the body, whereas Korean dance attempts to express an exterior aesthetic through restraint of movement.
	www.abqarts.org /cultural/survey/korean-cs.htm (5529 words)

	Buddhist Studies: Korean Buddhist Art and Architecture
		An appreciation of Korean culture is incomplete without an understanding of Buddhism's role in the development of the Korean arts.
		For Korean Buddhist art is everywhere evident throughout the long history of the peninsula.
		From the art of making paper lotus lanterns for the Buddha's Birthday to building a temple complex, most Buddhist arts combine such values as patience, perseverance and perfection, all absorbed during the lengthy training period.
	www.buddhanet.net /e-learning/history/buddhist-art/korean01.htm (470 words)

	Kumdo
		The sword art of Kumdo was inaugurated in Seoul, Korea in June 1948.
		Martial arts, which had been banned by the occupying forces, began to be rediscovered and new schools of martial arts were formed.
		Martial arts began to be taught in public school as a requirement of education for both boys and girls.
	www.scottshaw.com /kumdo.html (3199 words)

	Traditions of Change (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Korean and Korean-American painting, pottery, calligraphy, and even modern art often reflect this style or aesthetic of simplicity, naturalness, and directness.
		Some have also claimed that Korean art is simple when compared to Chinese art because of Korea’s pre-20th century history of isolation and relative poverty, as compared to China’s history of trade and wealth.
		The style of simplicity and naturalness lent itself to depicting the rugged life of the Korean countryside, and in the 17th century, genres of art began to develop that focused on the life of the peasant classes.
	www.arts.wa.gov /progFA/korean/Korean15.htm (685 words)

	Korean Crossing: a recent multi-themed exhibition at nine venues around Hawaii presented a broad range of contemporary ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Separately curated exhibitions in nine art spaces on Oahu and Maul delved into everything from Korea's continuing craft traditions to recent developments in installation and video art, the reinvention of Asian ink painting, and the interplay between painting and photography.
		Explorations of Korean identity mingled with a more universalist model of global citizenship, nostalgia for lost rural lifestyles butted up against a hard-nosed acceptance of the urbanization and modernization of Korean society, and traditional painting and ceramics vied with work in the latest electronic mediums.
		An exhibition curated by Jennifer Saville, the Academy's curator of Western art, focused on contemporary expressions of traditional Korean crafts, ranging from fiber art and ceramics to papermaking and metalwork.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1248/is_8_92/ai_n6196965 (940 words)

	Ceramics Art & Perception
		In The Art of the Potter, W. Honey writes: 'The forms of Koryo seem to be the quintessence of refined, courtly, even feminine elegance.' These were essentially aristocratic wares made for the enjoyment of the nobility at court, a court that reflected the taste of a dominating Song China.
		But by using punch'ong today, Kim is able to make his viewers focus on an art that challenged and changed the ceramic parameters of its time, and which achieved integrity through a philosophy of truth to the materials and the processes of art a return to essentials.
		The finely executed vessels chess pieces confront the conservatism of Korean art that is perpetuated in the traditional shapes of its vases and jars.
	www.ceramicart.com.au /articles/Won_Seok_Kim.htm (1949 words)

	Hybrid identities - Korean art; various artists, Queens Museum, New York, New York Art in America - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The image of the greengrocer is invoked in several of the works displayed in "Across the Pacific: Contemporary Korean and Korean American Art," an exhibition of works by 24 Koreans and Korean-Americans organized by the Queens Museum.
		The second, organized by Korean curator Young Chul Lee, represents a cross section of Korean artists associated with Min Joong, or People's Art, a movement of political protest which emerged in Korea during the tumultuous events of the 1980s.
		Many of the Korean immigrants, by contrast, adopt the terms of the current American debate on ethnicity and identity, and several are perhaps too well versed in the deconstructive language of contemporary political art, which seems to have become a form of art-world Esperanto.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1248/is_n9_v82/ai_15828108 (958 words)

	Pyongyang Art Studio \| socialist realism
		This art is highly developed in DPRK as it is part of daily life, mainly in the form of posters in streets, schools, cinemas, and official buildings.
		Each comes with a letter from the DPRK art institute to guarantee its providence and is signed by the artist.
		ART BOOKS - We offer a range of North Korean books in English about culture and arts of the country, including classics such as Kim Jong Il's "On the Art of Cinema", "The Great Teacher of Journalists" by the same author, and books on Korean Fine Art.
	pyongyangartstudio.com /socialistrealism/index.html (264 words)

	Tang Soo Do: The Traditional Korean Martial Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The nobility learned these arts and began to develop their own additons to them and thus were born the various Korwean martial arts.
		Korean martial arts were once again merged and began to flourish throughout the entire Korean Peninsula.
		At the beginning of the modern era of the Korean martial arts, Tang Soo Do was the most popular term for these arts, however, at that time, the Korean political leader was concerned about establishing Korean value based on Korean nationalism.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/history_of_the_martial_arts/116090 (482 words)

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		This is a very unusual large Korean bronze incense vessel, decorated in gold lacquer on the body, with finial modelled as Kwan Yin, Buddhist goddess of mercy.
		On the underside of the base is the seal mark of the Chinese Xuande reign period...
		The shortage of women writers is notable in the classical Korean literary tradition, and this sets the Korean tradition to a distinct disadvantage in relation to Japanese and Chinese traditions.
	lycos.cs.cmu.edu /info/korean-art--chinese-studies.html (252 words)

	Korean Art \| Freer and Sackler Galleries
		During the last twenty years of his life Freer acquired nearly 500 Korean art objects, including approximately 130 Koryo and eighty Choson ceramic pieces.
		When the Freer Gallery of Art opened its doors in 1923, Freer’s assembly of Korean art was considered unparalleled in quality and historical scope.
		The Freer and Sackler galleries together form the national museum of Asian art for the United States.
	www.asia.si.edu /collections/koreanHome.htm (215 words)

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		Perhaps the author might have expanded her ideological interpretation by revisiting and substantiating her theoretical summation from the Introduction; for example, her quote taken from Foucault: 'as soon as there is a power relation, there is a possibility of resistance' (8).
		Hence, it is difficult, nearly impossible, to determine the coordinates of a 'national identity' through the prism of any one ideological perspective without risking the exclusion of numerous oppositional voices that challenge the official discourse.
		South Korean and Japanese artists believed that abstract art, such as Abstract Expressionism, represents the superiority of a free world’s art over the social-realist art in communist countries.
	www.lycos.com /info/korean-art--south-korea.html?page=2 (563 words)

	A rare glimpse into a closed art world
		Son's "Peak Chonnyo of Mount Kumgang" is a classical Korean landscape of towering cliffs shrouded by mists.
		There they are trained in traditional Korean ink-wash painting as well as in socialist-realist work in oil and ink.
		North Korean artists receive much the same training that Chinese artists did in the 1970s, before Beijing introduced economic reforms and began opening to the outside world.
	www.iht.com /articles/2005/05/18/features/cwhen.php (1027 words)

	The lure of Oori: ancient Korean art practiced at MIT - MIT News Office
		Pungmul is practiced by Oori, MIT's traditional Korean folk art ensemble, and that's where Lim, who majored in electrical engineering and computer science, first learned the form, comprised of rituals, drumming, dance and acrobatics.
		When Lim initially encountered the Korean group, her concern was more about "learning drums to prove that I could really play an instrument," she said.
		Lim emphasized that participation in Oori is open to people of all ethnic backgrounds and both Koreans and non-Koreans alike are enlightened through their education in the traditional art form.
	web.mit.edu /newsoffice/2005/arts-oori-0126.html (830 words)

	Art Permanent Collection [LACMA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art]
		The heart of the collection of the art of the ancient Americas is a rich cross section of objects from the major civilizations of ancient Mexico.
		The Pavilion for Japanese Art is unique in America as a separate building dedicated to the display of Japanese Art within the complex of a large, encyclopedic museum.
		The Korean art collection was born with the donation of a group of Korean ceramics in 1966 by Park Chung-hee, then president of the Republic of Korea, after a visit to the museum.
	www.lacma.org /art/CollectionsOverview.aspx (1382 words)

	Korean glass art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Korean glass art is the art of working in all kinds of glass by Koreans or by Koreans overseas has a long history.
		Recent archaeological excavations hint that as early as the 7th century Silla kingdom, glassware was made in Korea.
		Art schools have had limited success in bringing glass art up to the standards of other Korean art.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Korean_glass_art (139 words)

	15 Centuries of Korean Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		A distinctive private collection of more than 100 Korean art objects has been gathered for your scrutiny and personal pleasure.This outstanding private collection encompasses 15 centuries of history, art, and culture.
		Included in this collection are pieces of Korean stoneware, ceramics, folk paintings, screens, bronzes, calligraphy, and paintings by some of the great Korean masters, dating from the 5th century A.D.) to the beginning of the 20th century.
		The art collection features examples from the Silla Dynasty (57 B.C.-A.D.935), Goryeo Dynasty (935-1392) (fka: Koryo), and the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910), emphasizing the Joseon Dynasty (fka: YI) and the artists' marvelous everyday simplicity and humor, capturing the carefree, spontaneous spirit of the artists.
	www.xenarts.com /market/korean/index.html (1068 words)

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		North Korean Bandaji (Front Opening Chests) from Pakchon are highly desired by both collectors and interior designers for their very fine, detailed, lacelike ironwork (soong-soong-i).
		This all original and unrestored Ton-kwe (Korean Coin Chest) is a fine 19th Century example of a type of chest that is becoming increasingly rare on the antiques market.
		It is made entirely of a fine Korean pine that would have to have grown for hundreds of years in a hilly, rocky area in order to produce the richly detailed, curvy grain that you see on this very fine Maru.
	www.fareastasianart.com /directory/Korean:Furniture20.html (745 words)

	Philadelphia Inquirer \| 01/11/2006 \| Art Museum names Korean curator (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Woo was born in Jinhae, in southern Korea, and is fluent in Korean, English, Chinese and Japanese.
		The new hire is part of an expansion of the Asian art department, which includes the current search for a curator of Chinese art.
		U.S. interest in Korean art has grown in the past decade primarily because of the Korea Foundation's sponsorship of an annual intensive program that sends U.S. and European curators to Korea to study Korean art, says Felice Fischer, the museum's Luther W. Brady curator of Japanese art and curator of East Asian art.
	www.philly.com /mld/inquirer/news/magazine/daily/13596192.htm (510 words)

	Korean Martial Arts
		The spinning, jumping, and aerial kicks are a recognizable trademark that place the Korean art at the forefront of the world's martial arts in kicking techniques.
		Just as the history of these arts can be traced back for over 2000 years, each art has developed a code of ethical behavior that has also ben passed along throughout the centuries.
		The highest goal of the Korean martial arts is not to protect the body from aggression or to win Olympic medals, but to master one's self through rigorous training and concentration.
	www.jadedragon.com /archives/martarts/koreanma.html (775 words)

	(Korean) - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Korean Language, language spoken by 49 million people in South Korea and 23 million people in North Korea.
		Almost all of its people are ethnically Korean....
		Korean War: pictures related to the Korean War
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/search.aspx?q=(Korean) (142 words)

	Robyn Buntin of Honolulu: Korean Art & Antiques
		This bottle is an example of how the Korean carftsmen used forms derived from China.
		It demonstrates a thorough familiarity with analagous forms produced in the 10th century in China, particularly of Yue-ware, and is quite similar to the well known Koryo bottle in the Seattle Art Museum.
		Korean cosmetic box made of persimmon wood with brass overlays.
	www.robynbuntin.com /Asian/g_korean.asp (206 words)

	Amazon.com: Hapkido: Korean Art of Self-Defense: Books: Scott Shaw (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Hapkido: An Introduction to the Art of Self-Defense: An Introduction to the Art of Self-Defense by Marc Tedeschi
		Scott Shaw is a master instructor in the Korean matrial arts of Hapkido and Taekwondo.
		Having practice the martial arts for over ten years, I find this book to be an excellent resource for both the Korean martial art of hapkido and self defense.
	www.amazon.com /Hapkido-Korean-Self-Defense-Scott-Shaw/dp/0804820740 (1404 words)

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