Introduction to the Paintings of Chosŏn Korea in One Day
Yoonjung Seo 徐胤晶
明知大學美術史系
Yoonjung Seo is an assistant professor of the Art History Department at Myongji University, Korea. Her research interests cover Korean art and visual culture with special emphasis on cultural transmission and intercultural connections reflected in Joseon court art, Sino-Korean relationship in early modern art. Her recent publications include “A New Way of Seeing: Commercial Paintings and Prints from China and European Painting Techniques in Late Chosŏn Court Painting,” “Art and Material Culture of Qing Dynasty and Its Transmission to Joseon dynasty through Diplomatic Channels in the King Chŏnjo’s Reign,” and “Joseon Court Painting in the Western Collection: Translocation and Provenance of Korean Art.”
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Korean art and visual culture
Cultural transmission between China, Korea, and Japan
Garden culture in East Asia
Sino-Korean artistic exchange
EDUCATION
University of California, Los Angeles • Los Angeles, CA • 2007 - 2014
PhD, Department of Art History
Dissertation Title: “Connecting across Boundaries: The Use of Chinese Images in Late Chosŏn Court Art from Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Perspectives”
Seoul National University • Seoul, Korea • 2002 - 2005
MA, Department of Archaeology and Art History
Thesis Title: “The Artistic Interactions between Korean Envoy-painters and Japanese Nanga
Painters”
Seoul National University • Seoul, Korea • 1998 - 2002
BA, Department of Archaeology and Art History, Art History emphasis, summa cum laude
APPOINTMENTS
Department of Art History, Myongji University, • Seoul, Korea • 2018 – present
Assistant Professor
Department of Art History, Freie Universität • Berlin, Germany • 2015 – 2018
Research Fellow and Lecturer
Forum Transregionale studien • Berlin, Germany • 2014 – 2015
Postdoctoral Researcher
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Department of Art History, Freie UniversitÄT • Berlin, Germany • 2015 – 2018
Lecturer – Lower Division Undergraduate Course and Graduate Seminar, Department of Art History
Introduction to East Asian Painting
Moving Objects and Shifting Meanings: Chinese Themes and Artifacts in a Global Context
Text and Image in East Asian Visual Culture
Art, Politics, and Cultural Identity in East Asia from 19th to 20th Centuries
The Art of Diplomacy: Material Culture and the Aesthetics of Gift Exchange in Early Modern Europe and Asia (co-teaching with Professor Joachim Rees) The Quest for Exotics: Foreigners and Exotic Curiosities in East Asian Visual Culture
University of California, Los Angeles • Los Angeles, CA • August-September 2014
Lecturer – Upper Division Undergraduate Course, Department of Art History
Arts of Korea
Taught lecture and led seminar to upper-division art history majors and graduate students; was solely responsible for course content
Developed new topics, course and teaching materials, including online resources
Graded and marked exams and other assessments
Supervised and assisted students’ research project and paper
University of California, Los Angeles, • Los Angeles, CA • October 2008-June 2010
Teaching Fellow – Undergraduate Core Courses, Department of Art History
Medieval Art, Ancient Art, Art of India and Southeast Asia, Chinese Art, and Introduction to the Arts of Africa
Seoul National University • Seoul, Korea • March 2003-Feburary 2005
Teaching Fellow – Undergraduate Core Cores, Department of Archeology and Art History
Art and Civilization in Asia, Introduction to Asian Art History, and Introduction to Western Art History
Conducted weekly discussion section (3 sections with 15-20 students each)
Wrote lesson plans and prepared PowerPoint presentations for discussion sections
Advised students on research papers and scholarly writing
Wrote quizzes and prepared exam questions and answer keys
Graded research papers and examinations, and helped prepare examination questions.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Department of Art History, Freie UniversitÄT • Berlin, Germany • 2015 – 2018
Lecturer – Lower Division Undergraduate Course and Graduate Seminar, Department of Art History
Introduction to East Asian Painting
Moving Objects and Shifting Meanings: Chinese Themes and Artifacts in a Global Context
Text and Image in East Asian Visual Culture
Art, Politics, and Cultural Identity in East Asia from 19th to 20th Centuries
The Art of Diplomacy: Material Culture and the Aesthetics of Gift Exchange in Early Modern Europe and Asia (co-teaching with Professor Joachim Rees) The Quest for Exotics: Foreigners and Exotic Curiosities in East Asian Visual Culture
University of California, Los Angeles • Los Angeles, CA • August-September 2014
Lecturer – Upper Division Undergraduate Course, Department of Art History
Arts of Korea
Taught lecture and led seminar to upper-division art history majors and graduate students; was solely responsible for course content
Developed new topics, course and teaching materials, including online resources
Graded and marked exams and other assessments
Supervised and assisted students’ research project and paper
University of California, Los Angeles, • Los Angeles, CA • October 2008-June 2010
Teaching Fellow – Undergraduate Core Courses, Department of Art History
Medieval Art, Ancient Art, Art of India and Southeast Asia, Chinese Art, and Introduction to the Arts of Africa
Seoul National University • Seoul, Korea • March 2003-Feburary 2005
Teaching Fellow – Undergraduate Core Cores, Department of Archeology and Art History
Art and Civilization in Asia, Introduction to Asian Art History, and Introduction to Western Art History
Conducted weekly discussion section (3 sections with 15-20 students each)
Wrote lesson plans and prepared PowerPoint presentations for discussion sections
Advised students on research papers and scholarly writing
Wrote quizzes and prepared exam questions and answer keys
Graded research papers and examinations, and helped prepare examination questions.
FELLOWSHIPS/AWARDS
ina and European Painting Techniques in Late Chosŏn Court Painting", Acta Koreana 22: 1 (2019), 61-87.
「조선후기 채색필사본 병풍 <곤여만국전도(坤輿萬國全圖)>와 <곤여전도(坤輿全圖)>의 동물 삽화: 지식과 도상의 전승과 변용 Transmission and Transformation of Knowledge and Iconography: Animal Motifs in Colored Manuscript Copies of Kunyu wanguo quantu and Kunyu quantu in Format of Folding Screen from Late Joseon Dynasty」,『미술사학연구』303 (2019), 131-169.
「민화를 보는 또 하나의 시선: 이우환의 민화론과 민화 컬렉션 Another Look at Minhwa (Folk Painting): Lee Ufan'sCollection of Minhwa and His Theory」,『한국민화』 10 (2019), 96-115.
「구미 소장 조선 후기 궁중 회화 Joseon Court Painting Collection in the West 」, 『미술사와 문화유산』 7 (2018), 145-172.
“Chaoxian gongting huihua de tu xiang linggan laiyuan—Suzhou pian yu Suzhou muke banhua” 朝鮮宮廷繪畫的圖像靈感來源—蘇州片與蘇州木刻版畫 [Pictorial Sources of Chosŏn Court Painting: Suzhou woodblock prints and painting], 故宮文物月刊[The National Palace Museum Monthly of Chinese Art], no. 423 (June, 2018)
“The Lingering Legacy: Images of Chinese Landscape and Garden in Commemorative Painting of the Late Chosŏn Dynasty in Korea,” in Memorial Landscape: International Warburg Seminar (Hamburg, Warburg Haus, 2020), forthcoming
“Water-Moon Avalokiteśvara,” Khan Academyhttps://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-asia/korea-japan/goryeo-dynasty/a/water-moon-avalokitevara (2018)
“Water-Moon Avalokiteshvara in the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art,” in Goryeo Buddhist Painting Collection: European and American Museums. Hangzhou: Zhejiang University Press, 2017
“Der Stellschirm „Das Bankett des Guo Ziyi‟ im Museum für Völkerkunde Hamburg: Von der historischen Persönlichkeit zur Manifestation Reichen Segens [Screen of the Banquet of Guo Ziyi in the Collection of the Museum Ethnology, Hamburg: From Historical Figure to Manifestation of Abundant Blessings],” in Uri Korea:Kunsthistorische und ethnografische Beiträge zur Ausstellung, eds. Susanne Knödel and Bernd Schmelz (Museum of Ethnology Hamburg, 2017), 326-337.
“The Place of “Exotic” Others and Foreign Curiosities in Eighteen-Century East Asian Visual Culture, ” in Pathway to Korean Art History: In Honor of Professor Burglind Jungmann (Sŏngnam: The Academy of Korean Studies, 2017), 12-25.
“Ryōanji (Peaceful Dragon Temple),”Khan Academy, https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-asia/art-japan/muromachi-period/a/ryoanji (2015).
“Does the Nationality of Artists Matter? Some Thoughts on Koryŏ Buddhist Paintings in Japan,” TRAFO – Beiträge zur transregionalen Forschung, www.trafo.hypotheses.org, 2015 Art-Histories Blog.
“Envisioning the Empire in the Late Chosŏn Court, Korea: Envoys Paying Tribute to the Court” (in Chinese), Collected Papers of Study on Korea, vol. 22 (2014), 206-222.
“Yang Wencong” and “Lan Ying”, 164-165; 186-187 in Peter C. Sturman and Susan Tai eds., The Artful Recluse: Painting, Poetry, and Politics in Seventeenth Century China, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 2012 (contributor of catalogue entries).
“17 segi huban Andong Kwŏn ssi ŭi kinyŏm hoehwa wa Namin ŭi chŏngchi hwaldong” 17 세기 후반 안동권씨의 기념 회화와 남인의 정치활동 [The Andong Kwŏn Clan and Their Commission of Commemorative Paintings: Art and Politics of Southerner Literati-Officials in the Late Seventeenth Century], Andonghak yŏn’gu, vol.11 (2012, December), 259-294.
“Kim Myŏngguk ŭi sŏnjong inmulhwa: Pusuro p’yohyŏnhan kkaedalŭm ŭi segye” 김명국의禪宗人物畵: 붓으로 표현한 깨달음의 세계 [Zen Buddhist Figure Paintings of Kim Myŏgguk, Envoy Painter to Japan] (in Korean) in Figure Painting in the Chosŏn Dynasty, edited by Ahn Hwi-joon et al., (Seoul: Hakgojae, 2009), 366-387.
FELLOWSHIPS/AWARDS
Korean Studies Grant, Academy of Korean Studies, 2018-2019
Conference Travel Award, Zhejiang University, 2017
Conference Travel Award, Academy of Korean Studies, 2017
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin, 2014-2015
Conference Travel and Research Award, UCLA, 2014
Dissertation Year Fellowship, Graduate Division, UCLA, 2013-2014
Asian Institute Graduate Fellowship, Asia Institute, UCLA, 2013-2014
Edward A. Dickson History of Art Fellowship, UCLA, 2012-2013
Northeast Asia Council Travel Grant, Association for Asian Studies, 2012
Andrew W. Mellon Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, 2011-2012
Harvard-Yenching Library Travel Grant, Harvard-Yenching Institute, 2011
Edward A. Dickson History of Art Fellowship, UCLA, 2011-2012
Departmental Teaching Assistantship, UCLA, 2010-2011
Korean Honor Scholarship, Embassy of the Republic of Korea in the USA, 2009
Departmental Teaching Assistantship, UCLA, 2009-2010
Sasakawa Fellowship, Center for Japanese Studies, UCLA, 2008
Dean’s Humanities Fellowship, UCLA, 2007-2008
University Fellowship, Graduate School of Humanities, Seoul National University, 2003-2005
Full Scholarship for Undergraduate Study, Bang Il Young Foundation, 1999-2002
MUSEUM AND ARTS ADMINISTRATION EXPERIENCE
Museum Für Völkerhunder Hamburg • Hamburg, Germany • 2016 – Present
Contributor
Writing an essay on the Screen of Guo Zhiyi
Smarthistory, khan academy
Contributor (Korean and Japanese Art)
Writing essays on Korean and Japanese art
Museum Für Asiatische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu berlin, • Berlin, Germany • 2014 – 2015
Visiting Research Associate
Participating in the museum’s project, lecture and gallery talks
Collaborating with museum staff through the exhibition project, “Tigers, Cranes, and Beautiful Women: Asian Art from the Klaus F. Naumann Collection”
Undertaking an independent project in consultation with curators at the museum
National Museum of Korea • Seoul, Korea • 2010 – 2016
Translator: Assisted in translation of resources and contents for Calligraphy and Painting Gallery,
A Painter’s Life: Kang Sehwang and Literati Culture in the Eighteenth Century (July-August 2013)
The Return of Oegyujanggak Uigwe from France: Records of the State Rites of the Joseon Dynasty (July-September 2011)
Assisted in translation of resources and contents for Calligraphy and Painting Gallery
Translated exhibition catalogue, Korean to English
National Palace Museum of Korea • Seoul, Korea • 2012 – 2014
Research Assistant
Deokhye, The Last Princess of the Joseon Dynasty (December 2012)
Treasures of the Vietnamese Nugyen Dynasty (September-November 2011)
The Habsburg Monarchy and Hungarian Aristocratic Society (November 2013-Jaunary 2014)
Translated exhibition catalogue, Korean to English
Assisted with research project and administrative tasks
Leeum Samsung Museum of Art • Seoul, Korea • 2012 – 2013
Translator and Research Editor
Exquisite Treasured: The Splendor of Korean Art, July 2015 (Scheduled)
The Court Painters of the Joseon Dynasty, October 2012-January 2013
Translated exhibition catalogue, Korean to English
Assisted in translation of the contents and resources of a multimedia electronic guide, October 2012-April 2013
Seoul National University • Seoul, Korea • 2005 - 2007
Student Affairs Officer: Planed and Implemented campus student affair programs and performed related duties including financial aid, housing, admissions, counseling, and career development.
Seoul National University • Seoul, Korea • 2002 - 2003
Librarian, Archaeology and Art History Library
Cataloguing, classifying, circulating and maintaining library materials
Furnishing reference, bibliographical, and reader’s advisory service.
Seoul National University • Seoul, Korea • 2000 - 2002
Curatorial Assistant
Paintings of Chang Seung-eop, September 2000-Feburary 2001
Masterworks of Ming Qing Painting from the Rong Bao Zhai Collection, June 2002
Conducted curatorial research for exhibitions and publications
Assisted in preparation of exhibition descriptions and didactic materials including museum labels, well text, and gallery guides
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Department of Art History, Freie Universität • Berlin, Germany • 2015 – present
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Undertaking research on the history and aesthetic of garden culture in the 18th century
Write up research work for publication
Develop research proposals for own and joint research.
Actively participate as a member of a research team.
Attend and contribute to regular meetings and collaborate with colleagues on joint projects and workshop
Co-organizer of Workshop
“Transplanted Place: Garden Design and Shifting Cultural Geographies 1650-1800, A Transcultural Perspective,”Kunsthistorisches Institute, Freie Universität, June, 2017
Book for catering, accommodation, transport and excursions
Write conference exposé and promotional materials
Undertake appropriate research
“Korean Art in Motion: Discourse on Transculturalism and Transmediality”
Kunsthistorisches Institute, Freie Universität, June, 2018 (preparation)
Writing conference proposal and funding application
Evaluating papers and participating in paper selection process
Department of Art History, Freie Universität and The Asia Research Center, Zhejiang University • 2016 – present
Research Assistant
Plan and coordinate the staffing of publication project, “Goryeo Buddhist Painting Collection: European and American Museums.”
Coordinates regular editorial board and steering committee meetings.
Write and compile progress reports.
Act as the primary administrative point of contact for research staff of FU and ZU and as the principle operation liaison for museums, funding agencies and other research organization.
University of California, Los Angeles, • Los Angeles, CA • September 2010-June 2013
Research Assistant: Conducted a search for scholarly literature relevant to the research project, searching the library, copying articles, and formulating a bibliography
ARTstor-UCLA Joint Research project • Los Angeles, CA • September 2008-June 2009
Research Assistant: Identifying and cataloging digital images of Korean Buddhist paintings and architecture
PRESENTATIONS AND LECTURES (SELECTED)
Suzhou Print of Old Chinese Palaces and Screen of Han Palace in Joseon Dynasty: Its Possible Relationship, 中国版画研究会, 海の見える杜美術館, Feburary, 1st, 2020.
“1910-1920년대 식민지 시대의 벽화: 전통과 근대, 공공성과 예술의 담론 사이에서,” 인문과학연구소 추계학술대회 2019년 9월 26일
“조선후기 외교 선물로 전해진 서양의 예술과 물질문화: 정조대 사행을 중심으로,” 미술사학연구회 추계학술대회 2019년 9월 7일
“Who Cares Korean Art? Understanding of Joseon Paintings by the Kano Painters in the Edo Period,”「狩野派與中國」工作坊議程, Academia Sinica, August, 27th, 2019.
“Exploring Alternative Narratives: New Directions in Overseas Exhibitions of Korean Art, Museum Network Fellowship Colloquium, National Museum of Korea, July, 17th, 2019.”
“Art, Science, and Exotica: Diplomatic Gifts from China to Korea in the Eighteenth Century,” The Art of Diplomacy Material Culture and the Practice of Gift Exchanges in the Late Joseon Dynasty, International Workshop, Freie Universität, June, 28th, 2019.
“ 세계를 담다: 조선후기 채색 필사본 세계지도병풍 연구,” 2019년 한국미술사학회 춘계학술대회, 한국학중앙연구원, 2019년 4월 27일
“구미 소장 조선 후기 궁중 회화 : 유물의 출처와 이동의 관점에서,” 미술사와 문화유산 추계학술대회 2018년 10월
“Remembering the Imjin War: Contesting Meaning and Refracted Memory,” Art and War: The Japanese Invasion of Korea of 1592-1598, ”Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, March, 2018 (Panel organizer)
“Secular Images and Materiality in Koryŏ Buddhist Painting,” The History of Buddhist Art Exchanges in East Asia in the 10th -14th Century, Zhejiang University and the Korean Foundation for Advanced Studies, December, 2017.
“Suzhou Prints and Paintings as Inspirations for Chosŏn Court Painting,” The Second Conference of European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology, Zurich, August, 2017.
“The ‘Exotic Others and Foreign Curiosities in Visual Culture of the Late Chosŏn Dynasty,” Pathway to Korean Art History, Center for Korean Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, June 3, 2017.
“King Chŏngjo (r. 1776-1800) and His Political Ambition Represented in the Royal Garden:
Focusing on Gatherings at the Jade Stream in Ch’angdŏk Place,”
Transplanted Place: Garden Design and Shifting Cultural Geographies 1650-1800, A Transcultural Perspective,”Kunsthistorisches Institute, Freie Universität, June, 2017
“Open Stream: King Yŏngjo’s Dredging Project of Ch’ŏnggye Stream in 1760 and Its Visual Record,” The 28th Annual Conference of the Association for Korean Studies in Europe, Prague, April, 2017
“Introduction to the History of Korean Art,” Culture Cuts, Cody Choi, Kunstsammulngen Chemnitz, April, 2017
“Exotic Others and Foreign Curiosities in Visual Culture of the Late Chosŏn Dynasty,” Third Korean Art History Workshop “Reception, Transformations and Innovations: Transcultural Discourse in Korean Art,” Korea Institute, Harvard University, December 2016.
“The Ways of Kings and Confucian Kingship in the Late Chosŏn Dynasty: Focusing on Water Themed Paintings,” ZJU-FUB-PKU Joint Workshop, Art and the Image of Water: a Carrier of Culture and Spirit, Department of Fine Arts at Zhejiang University, China, June 2016.
“Chinese Images for Commemorative Painting in the Late Joseon Dynasty: a Transcultural Approach to Joseon Art and Visual Culture,” Asian Studies Conference Japan, International Christian University, Tokyo, July 2016
“The Place of “Exotic” Others and Foreign Curiosities in Eighteen-Century East Asian Visual Culture,” AAS-IN-ASIA Conference, Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan, June 2016
“Chinese Empire in Late Chosŏn Visual Culture: Illusion and Reality of Sinocentrism in Korea,” the 12th ISKS International Conference of Korean Studies, University of Vienna, Austria, August 2015
“Does the Nationality of Artists Matter? Goryeo Buddhist Paintings in Japan,” Transnational Cultural Interactions between Korea and Japan, From the Pre-modern to the Colonial Period, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, May 2015
“Imitation, Appropriation and Refusal of Other Culture: The Circulation and Reception of Chinese Images in Chosŏn Court Art, Korea.” Intercultural Perspective of Korean Art, Freie Universität, Germany January 2014.
“The Sacred Past and the Celebrated Present: Chinese Figural Subject in Commemorative Court Paintings of the Chosŏn dynasty in Korea,” East Asia Center Lecture Series, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, January 2014.
“Materiality, the Artist, and the Biography of an Object: Reconsidering Nineteenth Century Chosŏn Court Painting,” College Art Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, February 2014
“Visual and Material Culture of the Late Chosŏn Court Art: Re-reading 18th-century Court screens,” The Ninth Worldwide Consortium of the Korean Studies Centers Workshop, Beijing, China, July 2013
“Delegation Paying Tribute to the Court: Images, Ideas and the Representation of Empire in the Late Chosŏn Court,” Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, San Diego, CA, March 2013
“Envisioning the Empire in the Late Chosŏn Court, Korea: Envoys Paying Tribute to the Court,” KSI & EASC Graduate Student Symposium, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, November 2012
“The Confucian Rhetoric of Sage Kingship and Chinese Utopian Images in Late Chosŏn Court Painting,” Annual Columbia Graduate Student Conference on East Asia, Columbia University, New York, NY, February 2012
“The Six Wall Paintings of Ch’angdŏk Palace: Compromising the Uncompromised,” Harvard East Asian Society Graduate Student Conference, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, February 2012
“King Yŏngjo’s Royal Banquet of 1766: Royal Authority and “Chinese Beauty” in Commemorative Court Painting,” Power, Status and Space in East Asian Art, Harvard-Yenching Conference, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA April 2012
“The Propagandistic Role of the Banquet of Sŏwangmo (Xiwangmu), the Queen Mother of the West in the Late Chosŏn Court,” Heidelberg Colloquies on East Asian Art History, Heidelberg, Germany, July 2011
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Korean (Native Speaker)
English (Advanced Level of Reading, Writing, and Speaking)
Japanese (Advanced Level of Reading, Writing, and Speaking) / Classical Japanese (Reading)
Modern Chinese [Mandarin] (Advanced Level of Reading) / Classical Chinese (Advanced Level of Reading)
German (Intermediate Level of Reading, Writing, and Speaking)
PROFESSIOAL ASSOCIATIONS/MEMBERSHIP
Association for Asian Studies
College Art Association
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ostasiatische Kunst
LIST OF REFERENCES
Burglind Jungmann (Dissertation Committee Chair), Professor Emeritus Department of Art History, UCLA, 212B Dodd Hall, Hilgard Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1417 jungmann@humnet.ucla.edu
Hui-shu Lee, Associate Professor Department of Art History, UCLA, 226A Dodd Hall, Hilgard Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1417 hslee@humnet.ucla.edu
John Duncan, Professor Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA, 209 Royce Hall/11373 Bunche Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1487 duncan@humnet.ucla.edu
Jeong-hee Lee-Kalisch, Professor Department of Art History, Freie Universität, Berlin, Koserstr, 20 Raum A 251, 14195 Berlin Jeong-hee.Lee-Kalisch@fu-berlin.de