School of Arts

Acting Head of Department, Director of Learning and Teaching, Director of Student Support and Experience

Department of History of Art and Archaeology, School of Arts

Senior Lecturer in the History of Korean Art

Centre of Korean Studies

Academic Staff, Centre of Korean Studies

Teaching, Learning and Student Experience Committee

Member

Name:

Dr Charlotte Horlyck

Email address:

ch10@soas.ac.uk

Telephone:

020 7898 4704

Address:

SOAS University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG

Building:

Brunei Gallery

Office No:

B403

Academic Support Hours:

Tuesdays, 5-6.30pm

Biography

Charlotte Horlyck received her PhD from SOAS in 2006, and was appointed Lecturer in Korean Art History at SOAS in 2007. Before taking up this position, she curated the Korean collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London (1998-2004). Her V&A projects include the curating of the exhibition The Art of Reflection: Mirrors, Messages and Magic (2002). She has held research positions at the Academy of Korean Studies (2006) and Seoul National University (2010). She regularly lectures on Korean art on the Korea University International Summer School program in Seoul, and at other institutions around the world. Since 2016 she has been President of the British Association of Korean Studies.

Modules Taught

• Arts of Koryo and Chosen Korea
• Contemporary Korean Arts in East Asia
• Modern and Contemporary Korean Art
• Royal Arts of Korea

PhD Students supervised

• A Ram Park, A Comparative Study of Women's Buddhist Patronage in Joseon Korea and Edo Japan
• Hyesook Yang, Utopia, Nostalgia and Escapism: Art in South Korea during the Korean War, 1950-53
• Karin Warch, Causes and Expressions of Humor in Eighteenth-Century Korean Art
• Naama Eisenstein, Reshaping Ideals: Visualising the Genpei War (1180-1185) in Early Modern Japan
• Shiori Hiraki, Onari: Art, Ritual and Power in Early Modern Japan
• Yijin Kim, Art for the people and democracy: Socio-political Art Movements in Japan from the 1920s to the early 1930s

Contributions to departmental team taught courses:

• Theory and Method in the Study of Asian and African Art 15 490 0104
• Research Skills Training Course 15 PAR H061

Charlotte also lectures in Korean art on the SOAS Diploma in Asian Arts Course

Current research

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Available for

• Radio
• Press
• Briefings
• Special Study Programmes
• TV
• Short Term Consultancy
• Long Term Consultancy

Regional Expertise

• East Asia

Country Expertise

• Japan
• Korea North
• Korea South

Languages

• Danish
• French
• German
• Japanese
• Korean

Authored Books

Horlyck, Charlotte (2017) Korean Art from the 19th Century to the Present. London: Reaktion Books.

Articles

Horlyck, Charlotte (2014) 'The Eternal Link: Grave Goods of the Koryŏ Kingdom (918–1392 CE)'. Ars Orientalis, (44), pp 156-179.

Horlyck, Charlotte (2013) 'Desirable commodities – unearthing and collecting Koryŏ celadon ceramics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries'. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, (76) 3, pp 467-491.

Horlyck, Charlotte (2013) 'A Gilded Celadon Stand from the Goryeo period in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London'. Munmul, (3), pp 83-139.

Horlyck, Charlotte (2012) 'Gilded Celadon Wares of the Koryo Kingdom (AD 918-1392)'. Artibus Asiae, (LXXII) 1, pp 91-121.

Horlyck, Charlotte (2011) 'Korean Bronze Mirrors'. TAASA Review, The Journal of the Asian Arts Society of Australia, (20) 3, pp 11-13.

Horlyck, Charlotte (2010) 'Burial Offerings to Objets d’Art: Celadon Wares of the Koryŏ Kingdom (AD918-1392)'. Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, (73) 2008-2009, pp 79-89.

Horlyck, Charlotte (2010) 'On Celadon Wares of the Goryeo Kingdom'. Story of Korea.

Horlyck, Charlotte (2010) 'Goryeo Metalwork in the British Museum'. Orientations, (41) 8, pp 69-72.

Horlyck, Charlotte (2008) 'Confucian Burial Practices in the Late Goryeo and Early Joseon Periods'. The Review of Korean Studies, (11) 2, pp 33-58.

Horlyck, Charlotte (2008) 'Meaningful Commodities – Mirrors, Merchandise and Market Policies in the Koryŏ Period'. International Society for Korean Studies, (12), pp 239-257.

Horlyck, Charlotte (2003) 'Colour in Korean Textiles'. Arts of Asia, (33) 2, pp 110-117.

Horlyck, Charlotte (2002) 'Korean Bronze Mirrors and Their Chinese and Japanese Influences'. Orientations, (33) 9, pp 48-53.

Horlyck, Charlotte (2001) 'Tracking chronological changes within burials of the Koryŏ period'. Journal of East Asian Archaeology, (3) 3-4, pp 199-218.

Horlyck, Charlotte (2000) 'Combining the new with the old: collecting contemporary Korean art at the Victoria and Albert Museum'. Korean Journal of Museum Studies, (3), pp 130-145.

Horlyck, Charlotte (1999) 'Understanding Korean Ceramics'. Koreana, (13) 4, pp 4-11.

Edited Books or Journals

Horlyck, Charlotte and Pettid, Michael J., (eds.), (2014) Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in Korea: Ancient to Contemporary Times. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press. (Hawaii Studies on Korea).

Book Chapters

Horlyck, Charlotte and Priewe, Sascha (2018) 'Displaying a Nation: Representations of Korean art in the UK'. In: Steuber, Jason and Peyton, Allysa B., (eds.), Arts of Korea: Histories, Challenges, and Perspectives. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, pp 90-115.

Horlyck, Charlotte (2018) 'Arte contemporáde Corea del Sur: Una visión crítica de los principales temas y tendencias'. In: del Pilar Álvarez, Maria and Pérez Taffi, Verónica, (eds.), ¿Hallyu o Diplomacia Cultural? Corea del Sur y sus productos culturales. Buenos Aires: Universidad del Salvador, pp 79-111.

Horlyck, Charlotte (2017) 'Questioning Women’s Place in the Canon of Korean Art History'. In: Chiem, Kristen L. and Blanchard, Lara C.W., (eds.), Gender, Continuity, and the Shaping of Modernity in the Arts of East Asia, 16th–20th Centuries. Leiden: Brill, pp 224-250.

Horlyck, Charlotte (2014) 'Arts of the Goryeo Kingdom'. In: Starkman, Christine and Horlyck, Charlotte and Lena, Kim and Song-mi, Yi, (eds.), Tradition and Innovation in Korean Art. Houston: The Museum of Fine Arts, pp 26-45.

Horlyck, Charlotte (2014) 'Ways of Burial in Koryŏ Times (AD918-1392)'. In: Horlyck, Charlotte and Pettid, Michael J., (eds.), Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in Korea: Ancient to Contemporary Times. Honolulu, HI: Hawaii University Press, pp 83-111.

Horlyck, Charlotte (2014) 'Las tradiciones de la cerámica en la península coreana'. In: Ojeda, Alfonso and Fernández del Campo, Eva, (eds.), Arte de Corea. Madrid: Ibersaf Editores, pp 61-85.

Horlyck, Charlotte (2013) 'Korean Art Objects at SOAS'. In: Jackson, Andrew D., (ed.), Key Papers on Korea: Papers Celebrating 25 Years of the Centre of Korean Studies, SOAS. Boston: Global Oriental; Brill, pp 275-296.

Horlyck, Charlotte (2011) 'Mirrors inlaid with mother-of-pearl in the Cotsen Collection'. In: Falkenhausen, Lothar von, (ed.), The Lloyd Cotsen Study Collection of Chinese Bronze Mirrors. Volume II: Studies. Los Angeles: Cotsen Occasional Press, UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, pp 160-169.

Horlyck, Charlotte (2011) 'Mirrors in Early Korea'. In: Falkenhausen, Lothar von, (ed.), The Lloyd Cotsen Study Collection of Chinese Bronze Mirrors. Volume II: Studies. Los Angeles: Cotsen Occasional Press, UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Pres, pp 120-129.

Horlyck, Charlotte (2009) 'The Spread and Assimilation of Chinese Bronze Mirrors in Early Korean Society'. In: DeCeuster, Koen and van den Haak, Martina, (eds.), Proceedings of the Association for Korean Studies in Europe, 24th Biennial Conference. Leiden: Association for Korean Studies in Europe.

Horlyck, Charlotte (2008) 'Looking at the Overlooked: Art by Women and for Women in Pre-Modern Korea'. In: Chinn, Lori, (ed.), The Offering Table. Women Activist Artists from Korea. Oakland, Calif.: Mills College Art Museum, pp 40-50.

Horlyck, Charlotte (2007) 'Kkoktu – Guides, Guardians and Keepers of the Soul'. In: Frederick, Carriere, (ed.), Korean Funerary Figures: Companions to the Journey to the Other World. New York: The Korea Society, pp 227-230.

Horlyck, Charlotte (2006) 'Purity of thought and emptiness of mind: The placing of mirrors in Korean relic deposits'. Cultural Interaction with Korea: from Silk Road to Korean wave. Proceedings of the World Congress of Korean Studies, vol.2. Seongnam: Academy of Korean Studies, pp 431-450.

Horlyck, Charlotte (2004) 'Celadons Koryo: el seu desenvolupament, ascension i declivi'. In: Cervera, Isabel, (ed.), L’art de ‘Àsia oriental. Barcelona: Fundació per a la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, pp 9-20.

Book Reviews

Horlyck, Charlotte (2013) 'Review of: Kungnip haeyang munhwajae yŏn’guso (National Research Institute of Maritime Cultural Heritage of Korea). Taean Mado haeyŏk t’amsa pogosŏ (Survey report on the waters of Mado). Mokp’o: Kungnip haeyang munhwajae yŏnguso, 2011.'. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, (42) 2, pp 454-456.

Horlyck, Charlotte (2012) 'Korean Buncheong Ceramics from Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art. By Soyoung Lee and Seung-chang Jeon. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011'. The Journal of Asian Studies, (71) 2, pp 563-565.

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