Wednesday, 21st May , 7 to 8.30 p.m., in Arts Faculty Lecture Room 1, 3- 5, Woodland Road:
"COSTUME in KOREAN GENRE PAINTINGS of the 18th CENTURY"
Talk, illustrated with slides, by Mrs Beth McKillop, Curator of the Victoria & Albert Museum's Samsung Gallery of Korean Art (1990-2), now Head of East Asian Collections, The British Library
"My lecture will discuss the work of Sin Yun-bok, born 1758; Kim Duk-sin, 1754-1822; and Kim Hong-do, before 1745-1818. Eighteenth century Korea was a time of fresh enquiry and direct observation of the natural and human worlds. Paintings by Sin and the Kims show keen interest in the habits, movements and clothing of people at all levels of Korean society -from noblemen to builders, from servants to courtesans. The paintings have been chosen from albums in Korean museum collections."