The WELL: inkwell.vue.150: David Mason: Spirit of the Mountains

#234: Gerry Feeney (gerry) Sat 27 Dec 03 12:04

Sat, 27 Dec 2003 12:04:00 PST

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At the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, we have "Then and Now" Korean exhibitions: http://www.asianart.org/currentexhibitions.htm

I visited it yesterday with <poet-lariat> and his wife, Bev. Included in the works was a san-shin image and explanation. I noticed a number of other works that featured the tiger and the gnarly pine, but with no sagely elder. [Read entire topic]

#233: Gerry Feeney (gerry) Wed 16 Apr 03 06:41

Wed, 16 Apr 2003 06:41:00 PDT

I'm coming awfully late to this, but just wanted to say congratulations to you, David. Sorry for being a stranger to inkwell lately. [Read entire topic]

#232: David A. Mason (mntnwolf) Tue 17 Dec 02 03:51

Tue, 17 Dec 2002 03:51:00 PST

Yeah, it's good for that... attracts the eye. Found at a library, it might turn some people on to Korean culture, who had never given it any consideration (like me, before i first arrived here). [Read entire topic]

#231: Cynthia Dyer-Bennet (cdb) Mon 16 Dec 02 12:13

Mon, 16 Dec 2002 12:13:00 PST

Most excellent, David. It's such a gorgeous book, I'm so glad to hear it's going to be placed in so many libraries! [Read entire topic]

#230: David A. Mason (mntnwolf) Sat 14 Dec 02 23:17

Sat, 14 Dec 2002 23:17:00 PST

Thanks, folks!

By the way, this book is going on sale at Gateways, a big health/ spirit/travel/etc book/music store on the downtown mall in Santa Cruz. The first bookstore outside of Korea to carry it in stock (that i know of). They have a web-site, will do mail-order... [Read entire topic]

#229: mother of my eyelid (frako) Sat 14 Dec 02 10:05

Sat, 14 Dec 2002 10:05:00 PST

What great news! [Read entire topic]

#228: Jack King (gjk) Sat 14 Dec 02 08:06

Sat, 14 Dec 2002 08:06:00 PST

That is outstanding! [Read entire topic]

#227: Jon Lebkowsky (jonl) Sat 14 Dec 02 03:18

Sat, 14 Dec 2002 03:18:00 PST

That's great, David! [Read entire topic]

#226: David Gans (tnf) Fri 13 Dec 02 23:17

Fri, 13 Dec 2002 23:17:00 PST

Congratulations, David! [Read entire topic]

#225: David A. Mason (mntnwolf) Fri 13 Dec 02 22:49

Fri, 13 Dec 2002 22:49:00 PST

Just as a kind of post-script to the above 6-months-ago discussion, this book was selected by Korean National Academy of Sciences as one of the best research-books of recent years, and they laid out $10,000 to buy up 500 copies for distribution to all sorts of libraries. That was nice...

And it forced my Publisher to do a Second Printing, with mistakes corrected, which is good, it looks better. Academic-sortta books rarely get a 2nd printing; i guess that mine has so many color pix has made the difference, it also functions as a coffee-table / gift tome of sorts... Now, they are starting to edit the Korean translation of it; maybe that will finally get published this Spring (after 2 years of delay!).

See: http://www.san-shin.org [Read entire topic]