Les peintures coréennes datant de la dynastie Joseon (1392-1910) ont été très souvent remontées à la manière chinoise ou japonaise. Il est possible d’en reconstituer la configuration grâce à de rares exemples de rouleaux suspendus ayant conservé leurs montages d’origine. Il en est ainsi du Portrait de Kang Sehwang par Yi Myeonggi, qui date de 1783, et aujourd’hui conservé au Musée national de Corée, à Séoul, ou encore des Bambous sous la pluie de Yi Chong, datant de 1622 et appartenant au Musée Guimet, dont l’originalité tient à l’inclusion d’un colophon calligraphié. Dans ce genre de peintures réservées aux lettrés, le schéma d’encadrement au moyen d’une bordure blanche ainsi que d’un encadrement supérieur et inférieur de couleur bleue apparaît comme étant semblable. On peut étendre le travail de reconstitution grâce aux archives royales, où des commandes de paravents de diverses natures sont enregistrées. Le genre mal connu des « souvenirs de réunions », à mi-chemin entre peinture et écriture, révèle des montages originaux sous forme de rouleaux suspendus. L’examen d’autres genres de peintures, qu’elles soient commémoratives, édificatrices, ou même chamaniques montre l’étendue des solutions de montages, ce qui tient à l’extrême variété des papiers coréens utilisés. La conception de formats géants pour les peintures bouddhiques, surtout après la Guerre d’Imjin (1592-1598), ne peut s’expliquer sans les propriétés de résistance du papier coréen. L’examen technique et esthétique des montages de peintures coréennes apporte ainsi un nouvel éclairage à l’histoire de la peinture coréenne, depuis la fin de la dynastie Goryeo jusqu’aux bouleversements politiques apparus en 1910. / During the 20th century, most Korean paintings dating from the Joseon dynasty (1392-1910) have been remounted by using the Chinese technique or the Japanese one. Yet, it is possible to reconstruct their original appearance by studying a couple of Korean scrolls that have kept their original mounts. The Portrait of Kang Sehwang by the painter Yi Myeonggi, dated 1783, that belongs to the National Museum of Korea in Seoul, is one of them. Bamboos under the Rain, painted by Yi Chong in 1622, kept by the Guimet Museum in Paris, is a further example, its original feature being the inclusion of a colophon with a calligraphy. In these paintings intended for scholars, the design of the frame, taking the form of a white border with a blue upper and lower part, seems to have been widespread. One may extend the reconstruction of the Korean mounts by analysing the content of the royal archives: the commissioning of screens were documented in detail, revealing all kind of information about their material. Studying the lesser known genre of the “memories of meetings”, at the border between painting and writing, is particularly instructive as some of these have kept their original mounts. Examination of further categories of paintings, whether commemorative, votive or even shamanist, reveal a large extent of solution of mountings, and this is due to the varieties of Korean paper. The making of giant format for Buddhist paintings after the Imjin War (1592-1598) was largely the result of the resistant properties of the Korean paper named hanji.

<p>This project examines the events from 1866 to 1871 in Korea between the United States and Joseon, with a specific focus on the 1866 <i>General Sherman</i> Incident and the United States Expedition to Korea in 1871. The project also examines the present memory of those events in the United States and North and South Korea. This project shows that contemporary American reactions to the events in Korea from 1866 to 1871 were numerous and ambivalent in what the American role should be in Korea. In the present, American memory of 1866 to 1871 has largely been monopolized by the American military, with the greater American collective memory largely forgetting this period. </p> <p>In the Koreas, collective memory of the five-year crisis (1866 to 1871) is divided along ideological lines. In North Korea, the victories that Korea achieved against the United States are used as stories to reinforce the North Korean line on the United States, as well as reinforcing the legitimacy of the Kim family. In South Korea, the narrative focuses on the corruption of Joseon and the Daewongun and the triumph of a “modernizing” Korean state against anti-western hardliners, and is more diverse in how the narrative is told, ranging from newspapers to K-Dramas, leading to a more complicated collective memory in the South. </p> <p>This Thesis shows that understanding the impact that the first state-to-state encounters had on the American-Korean relationship not only at the time but also in the present, is key to analyzing the complicated history of the Korean-American relationship writ large.</p>