God Pictures in Korean Contexts: The Ownership and Meaning of Shaman Paintings

by Yul Soo Yoon, Jongsung Yang, Laurel Kendall

Book Overview

Shamans walking on knives, fairies riding on clouds, kings with dragon mounts: They are gods and they are paper images. Some are repulsed and unsettled by shaman paintings, some cannot stop collecting them, and some use them as sites of veneration. Laurel Kendall, Jongsung Yang, and Yul Soo Yoon explore what it is that makes a Korean shaman painting magical or sacred. How does a picture carry the trace of a god and can it ever be "just a painting"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824847636
• ISBN13: 9780824847630
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.2"