Jane Portal

Jane Portal is Curator in the Oriental Antiquities Department at the British Museum, London, and is the author of Korea Art and Archaeology (2000) and Chinese Love Poetry (2004). She has wide experience of both North and South Korea, having spent a year in both countries, and is creating a collection of contemporary North Korean art for the British Museum.

Art under control in North Korea

Nations have always requisitioned and utilized art works. If anything, this process proliferated in the 20th century, when art was widely adopted for propaganda purposes and those who produced it

By Jane Portal

/ 27 Jun 2006