Park Bul-ddong, Farmland, “there is No Tomorrow.” 1992. Mixed media, 69 x 33.5 cm
Timed Realisms, Art in Korea, 1953-1995
Friday, September 23rd, 2016
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Korean Cultural Service, 460 Park Avenue (57th Street), 6th Floor
Free admission; refreshments provided
During the Immediate decades following the provisional end of the Korean War in 1953, artists in Korea were left unmoored as previous distinctions yielded to new priorities and pressures. How did they reimagine new streams of action? How did their works function as contested sites where social and artistic discourses overlap? This lecture offers a wide overview of some key themes and developments through the works of artists like Jun Min-cho, Kim Hong-joo, Oh Yun, Shin Hak-choi, Park Bul-ddong, and Sung Neung- kyung.
Joan Kee is an Associate Professor in the History of Art at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and is a leading authority on contemporary Asian art. Her writing has appeared in a range of journals, including Art History, Art Bulletin, The Oxford Art Journal, Archives of Asian Art, Art Margins, the Journal of Law, Culture, and the Humanities and Artforum, for which she is a contributing editor. Her previous book, Contemporary Korean Art: Tansaekhwa and the Urgency of Method, published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2013, helped ignite worldwide interest in Tansaekhwa and postwar Korean Art generally
