'20th Century Korean Art provides a comprehensive, engaging survey that places emphasis on art historical narratives. It draws on primary sources and historical artefacts as well as on new interpretations of issues such as the identity of Korean art and the cultural ramifications of Japanese colonialism.

Covering over one hundred years from the late 19th century through to the 1990s, essays in this book examine how both external influences and will-to-change within Korean society itself generated a cultural vitality against a shifting political, social, and cultural backdrop and how this necessarily involved East Asia at large and the West.' - excerpt from the backcover introduction.
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Onsite

Location code
REF.KYN
Language

English

Publication/Creation date

2005

No of pages

284

ISBN / ISSN

1856694852

No of copies

1

Content type

monograph

Chapter headings

Part 1

Introduction to Modern Korean Art in the Colonial Period

The First Encounter with the West: Korean Exhibits at the World Expositions

Modernity in Debate: Representing the 'New Woman' and 'Modern Girl'

Millet's Peasant Image: The Receptive Phenomenon in Asia

Lee In-sung's 'Local Colors': Colonialism or Nationalism?

Korean Avant-Garde Group in Tokyo in the 1930s

Modern Korean Sculpture

Part II

Introduction to Post-Liberation Korean Art

Korean Informel Movement

In Search of an Eastern Lyricism: The Works of Kim Whanki

Two Traditions: Monochrome Art of the 1970s and Minjung Art of the 1980s

Korean Contemporary Art in the 1990s

20th Century Korean Art
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20th Century Korean Art