Kim Lena 김리나
Professor Kim Lena majored in History at Seoul National University, and studied Art History at the Graduate School of Harvard University and received her PhD. in 1972. A Professor of Korean Art and Buddhist Art at Hongik University, in Seoul, she has since retired, as of February 2007. Today, she actively participates in a variety of art history-related projects, along with serving as a member of the Advisory Committee of Cultural Properties Administration and ICOMOS-Korea.
Professor Kim has written several books and a number of articles, on the comparative analysis of Korea’s Buddhist sculptures, in Korean and Japanese as well as English. Her major publications in English include Arts of Korea (co-authored with Chewon Kim, Kodansha International, Tokyo, 1974), and the sections on Korean Buddhist sculpture in the exhibition catalogues Arts of Korea (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1998) and Transmitting the Forms of Divinity: Early Buddhist Art from Korea and Japan (Japan Society, New York, 2003). Her noteworthy books in Korean include Hanguk godae bulgyojogaksa yeongu (A Study of the Ancient Korean Buddhist Sculptures, Ilchogak, Seoul, 1989) and Hanguk godae bulgyojogak bigyoyeongu (Comparative Studies of Ancient Korean Buddhist Sculptures, Munye chulpansa, Seoul, 2003). She has also compiled Hanguk jogaksa nonjeohaeje (Annotated Bibliography on Korean Sculptures, Sigongsa, Seoul, 2001). Her numerous articles focus mainly on Korean Buddhist sculpture, but also deal with painting and applied arts.
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