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Modern and Contemporary Art in Korea deals with issues of tradition, modernity, and identity in modern and contemporary Korean art in Korea. On a deeper level, this is one of the only books of its kind in English that exposes readers to specific artists and their works, an especially useful resource for those who wish to know more than just surface level facts about Korean art.
This book has attempted to define what the term "modern" has meant in Korean art, exploring its evolution over roughly a hundred years, between the opening of Korean ports to outside trade in 1876 down through the 1980s. The purpose of this book with the detailed explanations and pictures, is to further a general understanding of how Korean art and the times it represented were related. An analysis of how traditional aesthetics and painting styles evolved requires an examination of both external stimulation and inner necessities of those times. Such an understanding will also lead readers to a clearer definition of what the "modern" meant in Korean art. The contents are divided into three chapters; Dawn of the Modern Age (1876-1910s), The Modern Art Era in Korea (1920s-1940s), and Perpetuation of Nationalism (1950s-1980s). The author of this book, Chung Hyung-min, is professor of Art History at Seoul National University and the Director of the Seoul National University Museum of Art. She is currently the President of the Korea Society of Art Theories.
Contents
1. Introduction
2. Colonial Modernity Contested
1) The Emergence of Modern Art and Artists
2) Expressions of Modernity
3) Art Exhibitions
3. The Spread of International Modernism
1) Reconstruction and Post-Korean War Art
2) Korean Art Informel
4. Identity and Tradition Reconsidered
1) The Monochrome Art Movement
2) Minjung Art
3) Revival of and Innovation in Ink Painting
5. Today’s Contemporary Korean Art
1) The Lure of International Art
2) Korean Artists Overseas
6. The Other Half : Art in North Korea
Epilogue
List of Illustrations
Author
Kim Youngna is a professor of Art History at Seoul National University, where she also serves as the Director of the Seoul National University Museum.
Dr. Kim received a B.A. from Muhlenberg College and her M.A. and Ph.D. form Ohio State University. Although formally educated in Western modern art, she has written extensively on Korean modern and contemporary art.
Her publications comprise several books and many articles, which include: The Art of the Twentieth Century Korea (1998, in Korean), “Yi In-song’s Local Colors: Nationalism or Colonialism?” (Oriental Arts, XLVI, 2000), “Artistic Trends in Korean Painting during the 1930s” (War, Occupation and Creativity, University of Hawaii Press, 2001), “The Meories of the War: Korean War Veterans Memorial in National Maill, Washington, D.c” (Association of Western Art History, 2002, in Korean).
She has also curated several exhibitions, including “Artists on Journey” and “Scenes of Early Modern Korea: Through the Looking Glass” at the Seoul National University Museum and “Picasso Prints: His Love” at Samsung Museum.
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