This is the catalogue of the joint exhibition The Elegance of Silence: Contemporary Art From East Asia held at the Mori Art Museum in 2005. Kim Sunhee was asked to organize this exhibition of twenty six contemporary East Asian artists and to concentrate on the influence of traditional aesthetics on their work.

David Elliott, Director of Mori Art Museum wrote, 'Contemporary art is often regarded as a universal aesthetic language, occasionally modified by local traditions, but essentially the same wherever it appears. This exhibition questions this by focusing on the continuity and influence of specific East Asia Aesthetic traditions that are common to China, Taiwan, Korea and Japan and on how these significantly diverge from those in the West. These traditions are rooted in concerns for nature and harmony, common to Confucianism, Dao, Buddhism and Shinto, and have traditionally formed a basis for ideas of beauty, balance and spatial organisation in art, design and architecture in these countries.'

With bibliography and artist biographies.