Man has produced various types of technical products to more and enrich his life and make in convenient. The technical culture has been kept developing up to today, with the infinite efforts, for the purpose of meeting these natural wished of mankind....
Man has produced various types of technical products to more and enrich his life and make in convenient. The technical culture has been kept developing up to today, with the infinite efforts, for the purpose of meeting these natural wished of mankind.
The treces which the race has trod, whichever races their countries consist of, have the traditions descending from deep roots through customs and beliefs in themselves.
In the heart of these traditions, there was a technical culture of wooden technical arts which was glorious in the Chosun Dynasty's era. But as the period elapsed Dynasties changed their hands it must in turn be great pities that in accordance to the changes of the period the glorious cultural heritages should be extinguished and destroyed. On theis account, I would seek to search for 'the Korean characteristic', the flavor and beauty of Korea so that we might rediscover ours in the disappearing traditions.
This thesis shows that not only the kind and use of the wooden technical arts in the Chosun Dynasty's era but especially the kind of desighs, the function and name of the metal- ornament got analysed, and that in carefully studying and examining the the designs, forms and function of hinges I would appreciate the excellent tradition and wisdom of our nation borne in the hinges.
As the metal-ornament bears the human in erest of a nation most naturally and plainly, as the wooden technical arts do well represent peculiar characteristics thickening the local colors, the purpose of this thesis on the metal- ornament is to establish the function and aesthestics of the metal-ornament attached in the wooden technical arts, to reanalyse our tradition on the basis of modern views and to present the modern metal- ornament, especially the direction of hinge- designs.
Therefore, the result of these researches is expected to be the available data presenting the direction of the designs and the imporvements of the modern metal- ornament.