Images of Asia
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Less well known than are their counterparts from China and Japan, the arts of Korea contain many treasures, especially in the fields of porcelain, painting, and music. Korean Painting, the first such survey in English, explores the range of Korean painted art from 4th-century tomb paintings to the experimental painters of today, introducing to the specialist and non-specialist alike the great richness of the peninsula's artistic traditions. The book's approach is thematic rather than chronological focusing on the most commonly depicted categories: human and religious subjects, landscapes, scenes from nature and, in the 20th century, abstract art.