Art of the Korean Renaissance, 1400—1600

(ProQuest: ... denotes non-US-ASCII text omitted.) This catalogue was published alongside an exhibition that explored the art and visual culture of the first two centuries of the ChosÅn period (1392-1910). The introductory essay by the recently deceased eminent historian JaHyun Kim Haboush outlines the ideological, institutional, legal, religious and cultural changes inaugurated in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries which resulted in a truly revolutionary departure from the state and society of the preceding KoryÅ dynasty. Elsewhere Haboush has argued that Han'gul also became an instrument of de-powering women, and it would thus have been interesting to get more insights into the gender aspects of the early ChosÅn social revolution (JaHyun Kim Haboush, "Gender and the Politics of Language in ChosÅn Korea," in Benjamin Elman, John Duncan and Herman Ohms, eds., Rethinking Confucianism [Los Angeles: UCLA Asian Pacific Monograph Series, 2002]).