1st Edition
The Emergence of the Korean Art Collector and the Korean Art Market
By Charlotte Horlyck
Copyright 2025
234 Pages
12 Color & 54 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
234 Pages
12 Color & 54 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
Articulating the shifting interests in Korean art and offering new ways of conceiving the biases that initiated and impacted its collecting, this book traces the rise of the modern Korean art market from its formative period in the 1870s through to its peak and subsequent decline in the 1930s.
The discussion centres on the collecting of Koryŏ celadon ceramics as they formed the focal point of... Read more
1. The Search for Korean Masterpieces 2. From Curios to Collectibles 3. Early American Collectors of Korean Ceramics 4. New Consumers of Korean Ceramics 5. Authority, Resistance, and Expansion 6. Conclusion
Biography
Charlotte Horlyck is Reader in Korean Art History at SOAS.
