Sol Jung Lecture at Swarthmore College (September 30th)

[Tomoko Sakomura]

Dear PMJS Colleagues,

I'm very excited to share an upcoming lecture by Sol Jung at Swarthmore College. I hope those in the area can join us!

Lee Frank Lecture in Art History Presents:

SOL JUNG

Independent Curator and Scholar, based in Norway

Are Korean Tea Bowls Korean? Ceramics, Tea, Diplomacy, and Cultural Exchange

Wednesday, September 30, 2026
4:30pm, reception to follow
Swarthmore College, Kohlberg Hall, Scheuer Room

Displaced from their original context of production and consumption, Korean ceramic tea bowls, called kōrai chawan in Japan, became valuable objects sought out by Japanese military elites, wealthy merchants, and monks in the sixteenth-century. These men participated in Japanese tea practice, chanoyu, a specialized cultural forum for aesthetic discourse. The appreciation for Korean ceramics marked the beginning of Japanese interest in collecting non-Chinese objects, and this shift had a profound impact on sixteenth-century Japanese aesthetics, as well as both Korean and Japanese artistic production later in the seventeenth century and into the present. This lecture will examine the historic and contemporary significance of these Korean ceramics as transcultural objects.

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Tomoko Sakomura
Professor of Art History
Swarthmore College

[M P]

is this lecture online as well?

Dr. Petrucci M Grazia

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