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- Title
Research on a Buddha Mountain in Colonial-Period Korea: A Preliminary Discussion.
- Authors
Kim, Sunkyung
- Abstract
Buddhist art became the focus of discussion when Japanese scholars began to construct Korean art history as an academic discipline. This paper presents a case study of how a particular Buddhist site, Mount Nam in Kyŏngju, was recognized, researched, and represented during the colonial period (1910–1945). By analyzing representative Japanese publications on the subject, I argue that there existed disconnection between the colonial government and the site-researchers. I re-evaluate the conventional narrative that the colonizers regarded Buddhist statues as "art" removed from their original religious setting. This paper reveals a more layered picture of the early years of historical discourse on the so-called Buddha Mountain and Buddhist sculptures of Korea.
- Subjects
BUDDHIST art &; symbolism; BUDDHIST sculpture; KOREAN art; JAPANESE occupation of Korea, 1910-1945
- Publication
Religions, 2021, Vol 12, Issue 7, p551
- ISSN
2077-1444
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/rel12070551