The Paintings Of Korean Shaman Gods

Author : Laurel Kendall
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824857097
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God Pictures in Korean Contexts written by Laurel Kendall and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shamans walking on knives, fairies riding on clouds, kings with dragon mounts: They are gods and they are paper images. Some are repulsed and unsettled by shaman paintings, some cannot stop collecting them, and some use them as sites of veneration. Laurel Kendall, Jongsung Yang, and Yul Soo Yoon explore what it is that makes a Korean shaman painting magical or sacred. How does a picture carry the trace of a god and can it ever be “just a painting” again? How have shaman paintings been revalued as art? Do artfulness and magic ever intersect? Does it matter, as a matter of market value, that the painting was once a sacred thing? Navigating the journey shaman paintings make from painters’ studios to shaman shrines to private collections and museums, the three authors deftly traverse the borderland between scholarly interests in the material dimension of religious practice and the circulation of art. Illustrated with sixty images in color and black and white, the book offers a new vantage point on “the social life of things.” This is not a story of a collecting West and a disposing rest; the primary collectors and commentators on Korean shaman paintings are South Koreans re-imagining their own past in light of their own modernist sensibility. It is a tale told with an awareness of both recent South Korean history and the problematic question of how the paintings are understood by different South Korean actors, most particularly the shamans and collectors who share a common language and sometimes meet face-to-face.

Author : Tʻae-gon Kim
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781898823773
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Paintings of Korean Shaman Gods written by Tʻae-gon Kim and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the first comprehensive, fully illustrated study of Korean shaman gods to be published in English: it includes 130 full-colour plates of shaman gods, many dating back to the eighteenth century. In addition to the plate section, the volume comprises three texts: An illustrated introductory chapter by Christina Han on shamanism - its origins and its significance in Korea as the most ancient form of spirituality framed by the shaman paintings, followed by two further contextualising essays - 'Reflections on Shaman God Paintings and Shamanism' by Kim Tae-gon, and 'The Shaman God Paintings as an Icon and Its Artistic Qualities' by Bak Yong-suk, both distinguished authorities in the study of Korean shamanism. As well as those specialising in Korean Studies, The Paintings of Korean Shaman Gods will also be welcomed by those with a particular interest in Art History and Cultural and Religious Studies in general."--

Author : Tʻae-gon Kim
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781898823780
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Paintings of Korean Shaman Gods written by Tʻae-gon Kim and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Laurel Kendall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780824868338
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God Pictures in Korean Contexts written by Laurel Kendall and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tae-gon Kim
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
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Download or read book Paintings of shaman gods of Korea written by Tae-gon Kim and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alan Carter Covell
Publisher : Hollym International Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780930878573
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Folk Art and Magic written by Alan Carter Covell and published by Hollym International Corporation. This book was released on 1988 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Seuk Jai Im
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paintings of Shaman gods of Korea written by Seuk Jai Im and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alan Carter Covell
Publisher : Elizabeth, N.J. : Hollym International Corporation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shamanist Folk Paintings written by Alan Carter Covell and published by Elizabeth, N.J. : Hollym International Corporation. This book was released on 1984 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : R. W. L. Guisso
Publisher : Jain Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0895818868
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shamanism written by R. W. L. Guisso and published by Jain Publishing Company. This book was released on 1988 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of psychological and anthropological studies about the oldest and the most fascinating religious tradition of Korea.

Author : Laurel Kendall
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824833430
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shamans, Nostalgias, and the IMF written by Laurel Kendall and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty years ago, anthropologist Laurel Kendall did intensive fieldwork among South Korea’s (mostly female) shamans and their clients as a reflection of village women’s lives. In the intervening decades, South Korea experienced an unprecedented economic, social, political, and material transformation and Korean villages all but disappeared. And the shamans? Kendall attests that they not only persist but are very much a part of South Korean modernity. This enlightening and entertaining study of contemporary Korean shamanism makes the case for the dynamism of popular religious practice, the creativity of those we call shamans, and the necessity of writing about them in the present tense. Shamans thrive in South Korea’s high-rise cities, working with clients who are largely middle class and technologically sophisticated. Emphasizing the shaman’s work as open and mutable, Kendall describes how gods and ancestors articulate the changing concerns of clients and how the ritual fame of these transactions has itself been transformed by urban sprawl, private cars, and zealous Christian proselytizing. For most of the last century Korean shamans were reviled as practitioners of antimodern superstition; today they are nostalgically celebrated icons of a vanished rural world. Such superstition and tradition occupy flip sides of modernity’s coin—the one by confuting, the other by obscuring, the beating heart of shamanic practice. Kendall offers a lively account of shamans, who once ministered to the domestic crises of farmers, as they address the anxieties of entrepreneurs whose dreams of wealth are matched by their omnipresent fears of ruin. Money and access to foreign goods provoke moral dilemmas about getting and spending; shamanic rituals express these through the longings of the dead and the playful antics of greedy gods, some of whom have acquired a taste for imported whiskey. No other book-length study captures the tension between contemporary South Korean life and the contemporary South Korean shamans’ work. Kendall’s familiarity with the country and long association with her subjects permit nuanced comparisons between a 1970s "then" and recent encounters—some with the same shamans and clients—as South Korea moved through the 1990s, endured the Asian Financial Crisis, and entered the new millennium. She approaches her subject through multiple anthropological lenses such that readers interested in religion, ritual performance, healing, gender, landscape, material culture, modernity, and consumption will find much of interest here.