Korean Buncheong Ceramics from Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art - Hardcover

Lee, Soyoung; Jeon, Seung-chang

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300155166 ISBN 13: 9780300155167

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011

Synopsis

Bold, sophisticated, engaging, and startlingly modern, Buncheong ceramics emerged as a distinct Korean art form in the 15th and 16th centuries, only to be eclipsed on its native ground for more than 400 years by the overwhelming demand for porcelain. Elements from the Buncheong idiom were later revived in Japan, where its spare yet sensual aesthetic was much admired and where descendants of Korean potters lived and worked.

This innovative study features 60 masterpieces from the renowned Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art in Seoul, as well as objects from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and presents current scholarship on Buncheong's history, manufacture, use, and overall significance. The book illustrates why this historical art form continues to resonate with Korean and Japanese ceramists working today and with contemporary viewers worldwide.

About this title

About the Author:

Soyoung Lee is Associate Curator, Department of Asian Art, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Seung-chang Jeon is Chief Curator at the Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea.

Review:

“In admirably lucid catalog essays[,] the exhibition’s curators raise intriguing questions about what the buncheong style meant to its creators and consumers.”—New York Times (New York Times)

"In addition to providing an engaging and thorough history of buncheong, the way that the book follows and documents changes in style and production and relates them to cultural factors is instructive to a contemporary audience, and relevant to ceramic artists."—Jessica Knapp, Ceramics Monthly (Jessica Knapp Ceramics Monthly)

About this edition

• Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0300155166
• ISBN 13: 9780300155167
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176