NOTES in Korean Art: Fluidity and 7. There have been 昀椀ve special 11. Kim Brandt, Kingdom of Fragmentation (New York: exhibitions in the Arts of Korea Beauty: Mingei and the Politics 1. For more on Suh Se Ok and Routledge, 2022); and Kyung Gallery: the inaugural show, Arts of Folk Art in Imperial Japan modern ink painting, see Chung An and Kang Soojung, eds., Only of Korea (1998); Korean Ceramics (Durham, NC: Duke University Hyung- min, Modern Korean Ink the Young: Experimental Art in from the Museum of Oriental Press, 2007), pp. 1–37. Painting, Korean Culture Series 5 Korea, 1960s and 1970s (New Ceramics, Osaka (2000); Art of 12. For example, the status of the (Elizabeth, NJ: Hollym, 2006); York: Guggenheim Museum the Korean Renaissance, moon jar as a national symbol Joan Kee, “The Curious Case Publications, 2023). 1400–1600 (2009); Poetry in Clay: was solidi昀椀ed when it became of Contemporary Ink Painting,” 4. For more on the Crosby Brown Korean Buncheong Ceramics the model for the Olympic torch Art Journal 69, no. 3 (2010): Collection, see Sally B. Brown, from Leeum, Samsung Museum at the 2018 Winter Olympics in pp. 88–113; and Joan Kee, “Jung “Mary Elizabeth Adams Brown: of Art (2011); and Diamond Pyeongchang. Tak- young and the Making of An Incurable Collector of Musical Mountains: Travel and Nostalgia Abstract Ink Painting,” Art Instruments,” in “A Gi昀琀 of Sound: in Korean Art (2018). Silla: Korea’s 13. A昀琀er Kim Whanki’s death, Bulletin 101, no. 4 (December The Crosby Brown Collection of Golden Kingdom (2013–14) was items from his collection were 2019): pp. 117–41. Musical Instruments,” special held in a special exhibition space exhibited at the National 2. In this essay and the related issue, The Metropolitan Museum at The Met. Museum of Korea, Seoul. exhibition, the terms “Korea” of Art Bulletin 76, no. 1 (Summer 8. Soyoung Lee, “Collecting 14. On earlier Korean still life and “Korean” refer to the entire 2018): pp. 4–47. Korea at the Met,” Orientations paintings, see Byungmo peninsula for the period until 5. The misattribution of Goryeo 46, no. 2 (March 2015): pp. 170–78. Chung and Sunglim Kim, eds., the 1953 armistice, whereas for Buddhist paintings was not 9. Soyoung Lee, “Goryeo Chaekgeori: The Power and the subsequent period they refer limited to The Met. For Celadon and Its Reception in the Pleasure of Possessions in solely to the Republic of Korea, information on such paintings, West,” in Arts of Korea: Histories, Korean Painted Screens, exh. known as South Korea, and its see the digital catalogue Challenges, and Perspectives, cat., SUNY Series in Korean connections to American and Goryeo Buddhist Painting: ed. Jason Steuber and Allysa B. Studies (Albany: State University Western European art move- A Closer Look, National Museum Peyton (Gainesville: University of of New York Press, 2017); Sunglim ments and politics. Unfortunately, of Asian Art, Smithsonian Florida Press, 2018), pp. 258–83. Kim, Flowering Plums and a proper examination of post- 1953 Institution, Washington, DC, For more on Goryeo celadon, Curio Cabinets: The Culture of art and culture of the Democratic accessed March 10, 2023, see Itoh Ikutaro, Korean Objects in Late Chos漃؀n Korean People’s Republic of Korea, or https://publications.asia.si Ceramics from the Museum Art (Seattle: University of North Korea, is beyond the scope .edu/publications/goryeo/en of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, Washington Press, 2018); of this project. Note also that /default.php. exh. cat. (New York: The Eleanor Soo- ah Hyun, “Korean some of the artworks discussed Metropolitan Museum of Art, Munbangdo Paintings,” in in this essay are not included in 6. Prior to the opening of the Arts 2000); Youngsook Pak and Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History the exhibition at The Met. of Korea Gallery, two exhibitions Roderick Whit昀椀eld, Earthenware (New York: The Metropolitan 3. The Space Between: The surveying Korean art traveled to and Celadon, Handbook of Museum of Art, 2000–), http:// Modern in Korean Art, at the Los several institutions across the Korean Art (London: Laurence www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd Angeles County Museum of Art United States and Europe, King, 2003); Soyoung Lee, /chae/hd_chae.htm (December (LACMA), was the 昀椀rst exhibition including The Met—one in 1957 “Goryeo Celadon,” in Heilbrunn 2016; updated May 2020); and in a Western museum to survey and the other from 1979 to 1981. Timeline of Art History (New Sunglim Kim, “Still Life in Motion: modern Korean art; see Virginia For more information, see Nancy York: The Metropolitan Museum The Origins and Development Moon, ed., The Space Between: Lin, “5000 Years of Korean Art: of Art, 2000–), http://www of Chaekgeori Painting,” in The Modern in Korean Art, Exhibitions Abroad as Cultural .metmuseum.org/toah/hd/cela “The Graphic Arts,” ed. Holly exh. cat. (Los Angeles: LACMA; Diplomacy,” in “Ideas of Asia in /hd_cela.htm (October 2003); Sha昀昀er, special issue, Ars New York: DelMonico Books, the Museum,” ed. Sonya S. Lee, and The Splendor of Goryeo Orientalis 51 (2022): pp. 65–104, 2022). See also Youngna Kim, special issue, Journal of the Celadon: Ewha Womans https://doi.org/10.3998/ars Modern and Contemporary Art History of Collections 28, no. 3 University 131st Anniversary .13441566.0051.003. in Korea: Tradition, Modernity, (November 2016): pp. 383–400. Special Exhibition (in Korean), 15. Quoted in Joan Kee, “Use on and Identity, Korean Culture The Korea Foundation and the exh. cat. (Seoul: Ewha Womans Vacation: The Non- Sculptures of Series 1 (Elizabeth, NJ: Hollym, Kun- Hee Lee Fund for Korean Art University Museum, 2017). Lee Seung- taek,” Archives of 2005); Korean Rhapsody: made possible the establishment Asian Art 63, no. 1 (2013): p. 103. A Montage of History and of the gallery, along with its 10. Soyoung Lee, “Joseon Memory, exh. cat. (Seoul: Leeum roster of exhibitions and public Buncheong Ware: Between 16. Quoted in Byron Kim: Grey- Museum of Art, 2011); Charlotte programs. The project was Celadon and Porcelain,” in Green, exh. cat. (Washington, Horlyck, Korean Art: From the supervised by Judith G. Smith, Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History DC: Hirshhorn Museum and 19th Century to the Present then special assistant to the (New York: The Metropolitan Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian (London: Reaktion Books, 2017); consultative chairman, and Museum of Art, 2000–), http:// Institution, 1996), n.p. Kang Mingi et al., Korean Art Hongkyung Anna Suh, curatorial www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd 17. See Ahn Hwi- joon, “The 1900–2000 (Seoul: National assistant. A grant from the /pnch/hd_pnch.htm (October Origin and Development Museum of Modern and Republic of Korea’s Ministry of 2003); Soyoung Lee and Jeon of Landscape Painting in Korea,” Contemporary Art, Korea, 2022); Culture, Sports and Tourism Seung- chang, Korean Buncheong in Arts of Korea, exh. cat., ed. Kyunghee Pyun and Jung- ah Woo, enabled a refurbishment in 2017. Ceramics from Leeum, Samsung Judith G. Smith (New York: The eds., Interpreting Modernism Museum of Art (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011). 46