Dr. Sunglim Kim, Dartmouth College, “Korean Chaekgeori Still-life Paintings: Their Origin and Development”

 

Sunglim Kim is an associate professor of Korean art in the Department of Art History and Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages program at Dartmouth College.  Her research focuses on the material culture, social classes, and aesthetics of late Joseon Korea.  She has authored the book Flowering Plums and Curio Cabinets: The Culture of Objects in Late Chosŏn Korean Art (Univ. of Washington Press, 2018), and numerous articles and book chapters, including “Seungja Rhee: Her Vision and Artistic Development” (2018), “The Personal is Political: The Life and Death and Life of Na Hye-Sŏk” (2017), “Is Seeing Believing? A Critical Analysis of Japanese Colonial Photographs of Korea” (2017), “Lost and Found: Go Hui-dong and Diamond Mountain Painting” (2016), “Defining a Woman: The Painting of Sin Saimdang” (2016), “Chaekgeori: Multi-Dimensional Messages in Late Chosŏn Korea” (2014), and “Kim Chŏnghŭi (1786-1856) and Sehando: The Evolution of a Late Chosŏn Korean Masterpiece” (2006).  She co-organized the traveling exhibition “The Power and Pleasure of Possessions in Korean Painted Screens” and co-edited its exhibition catalogue (2017). She is currently working on another traveling exhibition on the contemporary artist Park Dae-Sung, and is writing a monograph on his life and art.

 

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