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Informationen zum Autor Laurel Kendall is chair of the anthropology division and curator of the Asian ethnographic collections at the American Museum of Natural History.Jongsung Yang is director of the Museum of Shamanism in Seoul and emeritus senior curator of the National Folk Museum of Korea.Yul Soo Yoon is founder and director of the Gahoe Museum in Seoul, Korea. Klappentext Shamans depicted walking on knives, fairies shown riding on clouds, kings astride dragon mounts: some find such pictures unsettling, some charming. Pursued by collectors, venerated as the seats of gods, Korean shaman paintings are all of these things. Laurel Kendall, Jongsung Yang, and Yul Soo Yoon explore what it is that makes these works magical or sacred - more than "just paintings”. Zusammenfassung Shamans depicted walking on knives, fairies shown riding on clouds, kings astride dragon mounts: some find such pictures unsettling, some charming. Pursued by collectors, venerated as the seats of gods, Korean shaman paintings are all of these things. Laurel Kendall, Jongsung Yang, and Yul Soo Yoon explore what it is that makes these works magical or sacred - more than “just paintings”.
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Laurel Kendall is chair of the anthropology division and curator of the Asian ethnographic collections at the American Museum of Natural History.
Jongsung Yang is director of the Museum of Shamanism in Seoul and emeritus senior curator of the National Folk Museum of Korea.
Yul Soo Yoon is founder and director of the Gahoe Museum in Seoul, Korea.
