Shifting Terrain: Korean Paintings from the Spencer Museum of Art Collection, 1800–2012
Exhibition
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Shifting Terrain: Korean Paintings from the Spencer Museum of Art Collection, 1800–2012
Kris Ercums, curator
Gallery 408, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
Shifting Terrain traces how Korean artists navigated tumultuous periods of social and political transformation. A folding screen created for a royal wedding at the Joseon royal court in the late 19th century depicts a world that would soon disappear under the colonization of Korea by Imperial Japan (1910–1945). By contrast, contemporary artist Kim HwaHyun reimagines Joseon Korea through the lens of gender and sexuality.
