id:			294203
accession number:	2017.6
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2017.6
updated:		2022-04-21 09:01:11.244000

Munja-Chaekgeori Screen (Character-Books Screen), early 1900s. Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392-1910). Eight-panel folding screen, ink on paper; overall: 150.5 x 330.2 cm (59 1/4 x 130 in.); painting only: 85.1 x 27.3 cm (33 1/2 x 10 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2017.6

title:				Munja-Chaekgeori Screen (Character-Books Screen)
title in original language:	문자책거리
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creation date:			early 1900s
creation date earliest:		1900
creation date latest:		1930
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creditline:			Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
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culture:	Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392-1910)
technique:	Eight-panel folding screen, ink on paper
department:	Korean Art
collection:	ASIAN - Folding screen
type:		Painting
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measurements: Overall: 150.5 x 330.2 cm (59 1/4 x 130 in.); Painting only: 85.1 x 27.3 cm (33 1/2 x 10 3/4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Korean Gallery 236 Rotation
	opening date:   2017-07-10T04:00:00
	<i>Korean Gallery 236 Rotation</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (July 10, 2017-January 8, 2018).

	title:		Popular Art from Early Modern Korea (Korean art rotation)
	opening date:   2021-10-29T04:00:00
	<i>Popular Art from Early Modern Korea (Korean art rotation)</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 29, 2021-April 17, 2022).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Kang Collection, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–2017
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2017–
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fun fact: 
The eight Korean characters each mean filial piety, brotherly love, loyalty, trust, propriety, righteousness or justice, modesty or integrity, and humility or the feeling of shame.

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wall description: 
This folding screen is a whimsical harmony of two different subjects: <em>chaekgeori</em>, or books and things; and <em>munja</em>, or characters. The lower section of each panel depicts the imagery of things, including books, decorative arts, and utilitarian objects. The upper portion of each panel bears a classical Chinese character. Read from far right to left, the eight characters refer to the values of Confucian teachings of the Joseon dynasty: filial piety, brotherly love, loyalty, trust, propriety, righteousness, modesty, and humility. While these two pictorial genres are harmoniously conjoined on the same picture plane, two sharply contrasting world views—urban consumerism and traditional Confucian ethics that despise materialism—compete with one another.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Yi, Young-joo. "Character Painting in the Late Joseon Dynasty [조선후기의 孝悌文字圖]." <em>Misulsa nondan</em> (2007): 231-260.
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	url:		https://www.dbpia.co.kr/journal/articleDetail?nodeId=NODE01351981

	Chung, Byong-mo. <em>Revolution of Anonymous Painters: Folk Painting</em> [무명 화가들 의 반란, 민화]. Seoul: Dahal Media, 2011.
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	<em>Treasures from Korea: Arts and Culture of the Joseon Dynasty, 1392-1910</em>. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2014.
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	<em>Beyond Folding Screens</em> [조선, 병풍의 나라]. Seoul: Amorepacific Museum of Art, 2018.
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	Kim, Su-jin. "조선 후기 민간 사례용(四禮用) 병풍 연구 [Painted Folding Screens for Confucian Rituals in the Late Joseon Period]." <em>Hangukhak </em>(2019): 187-229.
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	url:		http://www.dbpia.co.kr/journal/articleDetail?nodeId=NODE08771723#none

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IMAGES

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