CKR AKS Regional Collaboration
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Luxury & Desire: Scholar’s Accoutrements (Chaekgeori)
Soojin Kim
Seoul National University
11:00 AM 
Monday, November 20, 2017
Feldman C408
Fashion Institute of Technology
227 West 27th Street

Whether Chaekgeori was made for the elite of the Joseon court in luxurious types of trompel’oeil multi-panel screens for the common in cheaper formats filled with still-life themes in isolated panel paintings, eyeglasses remained as symbols of its owner’s pursuit for knowledge and aesthetics, gratifying a viewer’s desire toward exotic collectibles from foreign countries.

RSVP by November 15, 2017: kyunghee_pyun@fitnyc.edu