The Newark Museum is one of the first museums in the West to have collected and continually exhibited Korean art. Currently the collection numbers more than 600 works and includes an incredible breadth of materials and range of time periods, spanning from nearly 2000 years ago to the present day. This book highlights the Museum's Korean holdings and aims to bring this remarkable, lesser-known collection into the public eye.
Forewords -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology -- Introduction to exhibitions and collections of Korean art at the Newark Museum -- Art of contemporary and modern Korea (1910-present) -- Art during the Japanese Colonial Period (1910-45) -- Art of the Imperial Period (1897-1910) -- Art of the Joseon Period (1392-1897) and legacy (1897-present) : Historical overview and neo-Confucianism -- Court and folk painting -- Ceramics -- Buddhist sculptures and paintings -- Art of the Goryeo Period (918-1392) -- Art of Gaya (24-562CE) and Silla (57BCE-935CE) Periods -- Recommended readings.