Nature and Artifice: Korean Munbangdo Painting

Thinking Environment in Early Modernity is a speaker series focused on intermedial problems of conceptualizing and representing the environment, both in the Early Modern period and in transhistorical contexts.

Munbangdo is a Korean still-life painting genre that emerged in the 18th century and continued to be popular into the mid-20th century. The paintings reflect contemporaneous global trends of collecting, display and trade. In addition to introducing the genre, the talk will focus on the depicted naturalia, their symbolism and connections to artifice and amusement.

Eleanor Soo-ah Hyun is associate curator in Asian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Sponsored by Franke Program in Science and the Humanities, Program in Early Modern Studies, and Council for East Asian Studies

For more information on the series, please contact John Hoffmeyer (john.hoffmeyer@yale.edu) or Taylor Yoonji Kang (taylor.kang@yale.edu)
The lecture will also be broadcast over Zoom at this link. There will be a small reception  afterwards.
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