The Art Institute of Chicago; National Museum of Korea, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea; and National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 2025
Available to booksellers from Yale University Press
This catalogue provides a scholarly foundation for the touring exhibition featuring highlights of Korean art bequeathed by the Lee Kun-Hee Collection to the National Museum of Korea and the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art. The diverse collection—one of the country’s largest and most impressive in private hands—was assembled primarily by the late chairman of Samsung Electronics, and after his death in 2020, Lee Kun-Hee’s family donated more than 23,000 objects to the Korean government. The 150 artworks showcased in this elegant book represent the vast and varied traditions and the extraordinary range of media encompassed in the Korean art world. The objects—which include paintings, sculptures, ceramics, books, and scrolls—have, with one exception, never been published or exhibited outside Korea, and over twenty of them have been designated as National Treasures under the Korean Cultural Heritage Administration.
Serving as a comprehensive introduction to Korean art, the book includes essays by renowned experts in the United States and in Korea that explore key subjects, from secular Joseon-period paintings to Buddhist art, ceramics, and modern painting.
Edited by Yeonsoo Chee
Essays by Yeonsoo Chee, Myounghee Jeong, Aeryung Lee, Soomi Lee, Sooyon Lee, and Sukyung Lee; entries by Jina Chang, Yeonsoo Chee, Moonhaeng Heo, Carol Huh, Sunwoo Hwang, Kungnam Kang, Hyunjung Kim, Younghee Kim, Hyeeun Kwon, Heagyeong Lee, Hyejin Lee, Jaeho Lee, Minhoon Lee, Seongim Lee, Hyekyung Lim, Yunhee Seo, Myunghee Shin, Jinchoong Song, Keith Wilson, Sumi Yang, and Suran Yoo
240 Pages, 9 1/4 x 12 in.
200 color illustrations
Hardcover
ISBN: 978-0-300-284065
