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2021-22Cont Korean Art Course Outline

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Topic 1

summary of lecture

CORE TEXT: Kim Youngna Modern Korean Painting and Sculpture in John Clark

CORE TEXT: Roe, Jae-ryung (노재령). “From Chosun Dynasty to Segehwa: Cultural mapping of contemporary Korea,” ART AsiaPacific, vol.3, no. 3, 1996, pp. 38-47.

Timeline Korea late 19th

Kane 1893 Chicago Exposition and Korea

Topic 2

BA In search of the New 2019 SUMMARY

CORE TEXT: Kim Youngna [Kim Yŏngna]. Tradition, Modernity and Identity: Modern and Contemporary Art in Korea. Seoul and New Jersey: Hollym, 2005

CORE TEXT: Charlotte Horlyck. Korean Art from the 19th Century to the Present. London: Reaktion Books, 2017. Chapter 2 In Search of the New.

Kee Selfportrait of Ko Hui-dog Art History 2013

Chung Hyung-min Modern Korean Ink Painting Chapter II

Kee Selfportrait of Ko Hui-dog Art History 2013

Kim Youngna Artistic Trends in Korean Painting during the 1930s

Topic 3

BA North Korean arts and culture 2019 SUMMARY

CORE TEXT: Hoffmann, Frank. “Brush, Ink and Props: The Birth of Korean Painting,” in Exploring North Korean arts, edited by Rüdiger Frank, 145-180 Nürnberg: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2011.

A State of Mind (Trailer)

The Game of Their Lives (Trailer)

North Korea: The art of surviving sanctions

Kim Youngna Impact of Korean War on Arts BAKS Papers 2011

Armstrong cultural cold war in Korea

Lee Kyuyol Fine Arts in North Korea 1991

Portal The Kim Cult

The limits of Juche

Link to lecture recording

Topic 4

2019 Arts of post-liberation period SUMMARY

CORE TEXT: Yu, June-sang. "Forty Years of Fine Arts in Korea: 1945-1985." Korea Journal, vol. 26, no.1, January 1986, pp.4-11.

Roe Jae-ryung The Korean War and Visual Arts Remembering the Forgotten War 2001

Topic 5

Abstract Art 2019 SUMMARY

CORE TEXT: Kim Youngna Chapter 4 Identity and Tradition Reconsidered

Armstrong Charles K. “The Cultural Cold War in Korea, 1945-1950,” The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 62, No. 1 (Feb., 2003), pp. 71-99.

Jade's presentation on Art Informel

Joe's presentation on Abstract Expressionism

Roundtable discussion on Tansaekhwa

Dansaekhwa Biennale catalogue - useful for your essays/exam revision

Shin construction of national identity 07

Topic 6

2019 BA Minjung art SUMMARY

CORE TEXT: Horlyck Korean Art from 19th Century to the Present - Chapter 5: Art and Politics of the 1880s and mid-1990s

Article on the funeral of Jurgen Hinzpeter

A Taxi Driver (2007) - Trailer

Writings on the minjung movement, minjung art and post-minjung - essential for your essays/exam revision

Ai Wei Wei - Art needs to stand for something

Topic 7

CORE TEXT: Kirker, Anne, Nam June Paik in Seear, Lynne (ed.). APT 2002 : Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art. South Brisbane, Qld. : Queensland Art Gallery, 2002, pp. 78-81.

siren eun young jung

Park Young-sook (photographer) catalogue

Interesting writing on Park Young-sook's Mad Woman photographs

East Asia Feminism FANTasia SeMA Seoul Museum of Art

Kim Beom

Topic 8

Arts of the late 1990s onward SUMMARYs

CORE TEXT: Starkman, Christine and Lynn Zelevansky. Your Bright Future. 12 Contemporary Artists from Korea. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. 2009.

CORE TEXT: Kang, Sumi. “The Aesthetics of Countercurrents and Dynamism: The Internal-External Trajectory of Korean Contemporary Art.” In 100.art.kr, edited by Jong-gil Gim et al., 610-613. Paju-si: Open Books, 2012.

Lee Bul in media res Venice Biennale 1999

Video on Kim Sooja

Topic 9

CORE TEXT: Park, J.P., “Koreans Are White?” Third Text, vol. 27, no. 4, 2013, pp. 510-524.

Topic 10

Summary of lecture

Hong Sun-pyo et al_'Contemporary Age' in_Understanding Korean Art_2011

Suh Do-Ho

Bae and Greg Dimitriadis-Travelling home-2014

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