1st Edition
Interpreting Modernism in Korean Art Fluidity and Fragmentation
Introduction
1. Modernity, Modernism, and the Modern in Korean Art and Culture
(Jung-Ah Woo and Kyunghee Pyun)
Part I: Korean Modernity and Modernism
2. Korean Art in the Historiography of Multiple Modernities
(Kyunghee Pyun)
3. Modernism and Avant-Garde in Korean Art
(Youngna Kim)
Part II: Inventing a Modern Nation: Visual Culture at the Turn of the Century
4. The Search for Modernity in Korean Ink-wash Painting
(Mingi Kang)
5. Royal Propaganda and National Identity in Emperor Gojong’s Portrait Photography
(Heangga Kwon)
6. From Patriotism to Capitalism: Transformation of Korean National Symbols Under Colonial Rule
(Soohyun Mok)
Part III: Visualizing Colonial Modernities
7. Modernity and Authenticity in Korean Pictorialism: From Pungsok Painting to Art Photography
(Hye-ri Oh)
8. "Vernacular Modernism" in Korea: Lee Quede’s Hyangtosaek and Yanagi Muneyoshi’s Folk Art Movement
(Yeon Shim Chung)
9. Korea, Last Retreat in Wartime for Murayama Tomoyoshi, a Modernist
(Toshiharu Omuka)
Part IV: Cultural Consumption and Modernism
10. Magazine Covers and Colonial Modernity: Politics of the Korean Face
(Yuri Seo)
11. Korean Modernists and the Nangnang Parlour Coffeehouse in the 1930s
(Younjung Oh)
12. Cultural Network in 1930s Korea: Avant-Garde Practices and Individual Artistry
(Inhye Kim)
Part V: Modernism as Ideology: Revision and Appropriation
13. Architecture as a Profession in Modern Korea
(Hyunjung Cho)
14. Imitation or Necessity: A Framework for Postwar Korean Art in Contemporary Art Criticism
(Chunghoon Shin)
15. Never a Failed Avant-Garde: Interdisciplinary Strategy of the Fourth Group in 1969–1970
(Sooran Choi)
Epilogue
16. Contemporaneity of Korean Contemporary Art
(Jung-Ah Woo)
Biography
Kyunghee Pyun is Associate Professor of History of Art at the Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, USA.
Jung-Ah Woo is Associate Professor of Art History at the Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea.
