Summary: | Catalog of an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, June- January 1999. Six essays discuss the art of Korean potters from the Neolithic period to the Choson Dynasty, Korean Buddhist sculpture, the origin and development of landscape painting, artistic tradition and the depiction of reality, An Kyon and the eight views tradition with regard to two landscapes in the Museum's collection, and the Museum's collection as a whole. The thoroughly annotated plates occupy 120 or so pages and include ceramics, metalwork and decorative arts, Buddhist sculpture, and painting. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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