The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Art Management Service have jointly published an English-language book introducing South Korea’s monochrome paintings.

Titled “Resonance of Dansaekhwa,” the book is a collection of articles written by experts on South Korean monochrome paintings, or Dansaekhwa as they are called in Korea, providing an overview of the paintings' various aspects with historical, aesthetical and economic viewpoints.

The writers include curator Yoon Jin-sup, art historians Chung Yeon-shim and Joan Kee. Alexandra Munroe, a senior curator of Asian Art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York also contributed to the writing.

Korean monochrome painting is an abstract painting approach that began to emerge in the 1970s. It is regarded as South Korea’s first collective and internationally oriented art movement in painting.

The book can be downloaded for free at the English website of the Korea Art Management Service (http://eng.gokams.or.kr/).