The Philadelphia Museum of Art's Division of Education has produced three kits for teachers to introduce students to the art of Japan, Korea, and China. Each kit includes slides, image cards highlighting works from the Museum's Asian arts collection, a video, and a resource book featuring looking questions, related classroom activity suggestions, a map, timeline, glossary, and bibliography. Also included is a CD-ROM version of all the elements in the kit. This particular kit focuses on the Museum’s collection of Korean Art, and introduces students to ten different works. A wide variety of objects and eras have been chosen, including an eighth-century bronze Buddha and eight hanging calligraphic scrolls by a contemporary Korean artist. This kit includes the following works of art: *Boy Attendant, eighteenth century (sculpture), * Roof Tiles, sixth to eighth century, * Buddha, eighth century, * Wine Ewer in the Form of a Melon, late eleventh to early twelfth century (ceramic), * Flask, fifteenth century (ceramic), * Dragon Jar, eighteenth century (porcelain), * Tiger and Magpies, eighteenth to nineteenth century (ink painting). * Treasure Cabinet, nineteenth century, * Ch’aekkori Screen, mid-nineteenth century, * He Who Tries to Travel Two Roads, 2001, by Son Man Jin (calligraphy), * Video: Mountain Dreams: Contemporary Ceramics by Yoon Kwang-cho
The free online version is available at
http://www.philamuseum.org/booklets/5_29_46_1.html You may purchase the kit either in person in the Museum store, by e-mail to wholesale@philamuseum.org, or by calling (800) 329.4856 or (215) 684.7957. Cost is $39.95.
