The Art Centers of Korea

Abstract

Almost every public collection of East Asiatic Art in America and Europe has a Korean section. The best are probably the collection of the Fogg Museum in Cambridge and of the Museum for Eastern Asiatic Art in Cologne. Outside of the Far East there are few specimens of Silla Pottery (668–935) and on the whole, few of Koryo Porcelain (935–1392). The numerous, widely scattered bronze mirrors also belong to this period. Even in Japan it becomes dear how inadequate is the usual concept of Korean Art. The collections of the Island Kingdom, in contrast with those of the West, give consideration to the early periods. In the Museum of the University of Kyoto especially may the visitor acquire a certain perspective on the artistic development of Korea.