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Korean Art 1900-2020 is expected to live on as a milestone in the Korean art research project with its in-depth exploration of currents over 120 years of Korean art history, as well as the most important artworks and artists of each era.

In order to present a wide variety of perspectives and analyses on Korean modern and contemporary art, the compilation involved the participation of 34 writers, including MMCA curators and Korean art experts from various areas.

Korean Art 1900-2020 is expected to live on as a milestone in the Korean art research project with its in-depth exploration of currents over 120 years of Korean art history, as well as the most important artworks and artists of each era. In order to present a wide variety of perspectives and analyses on Korean modern and contemporary art, the compilation involved the participation of 34 writers, including MMCA curators and Korean art experts from various areas. It consists of five parts: “From ‘calligraphy and painting’ to ‘art,’” “Art in a time of war and division,” “The tradition/modernity dynamic in the modernization era,” “Democratization and the pluralization of art,” and “Globalism and contemporary Korean art.” For each topic, texts have been compiled to provide a chronological glimpse of currents in Korean modern and contemporary art history, accompanied by color images of around 400 major artworks and archival materials. A chronology of Korean art history has also been presented to offer an all-in-one survey of 120 years of Korean art.

Chapter 1, titled “From ‘calligraphy and painting’ to ‘art,’” covers the period from Korea’s opening in the late 19th century through the first part of the 20th century and Korea’s liberation in 1945. It examines the ways in which modernity was introduced into the traditional Korean painting world in a time of social and cultural upheavals. In particular, it focuses on changes to traditional painting and the artistic establishment with the advent of the new “art” concept, as well as the new visual culture ushered in by advancements in popular media.

Chapter 2, titled “Art in a time of war and division,” examines the process of Korean art transforming and acquiring its own independence during a time of revolution and chaos extending from liberation until shortly after the end of the Korean War. By also including trends in North Korean art during this time, the book attempts to expand the focus of art history research to the artistic diaspora brought about by the Japanese occupation and the Korean Peninsula’s division.

Chapter 3, titled “The tradition/modernity dynamic in the modernization era,” focuses in particular on the Dansaekhwa (Korean monochrome) movement, experimental art, and Korean artists’ journeys overseas, all of which came about amid transformations in the Korean art world during the postwar restoration and industrialization period from the 1950s to the 1970s.

Chapter 4, titled “Democratization Movement and the pluralization of art,” concentrates on art as a reflection of individual lives and historical currents amid the calls for democratization in 1980s South Korea. It explores the expansive potential of Korean art through a diverse range of fields including the Minjung activist art movement, feminist art, Hangukhwa (Korean painting), crafts, design, architecture, and photography.

Chapter 5, titled “Globalism and contemporary Korean art,” examines the diversification of 21st century Korean art under the effects of globalization and internationalization since the 1990s.

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Youn Bummo, Kim Inhye, Kang Mingi, Mok Soohyun, Seo Yuri, Kim Hyunsook, Kwon Heangga, Liu Jienne, Shin Soo-kyung, Hong Jisuk, Park Soojin, Cho Eunjung, Park Youngran, Chung Moojeong, Kho Chung-Hwan, Kim Yisoon, Cho Soojin, Kim Keongyeon, Kwon Young-jin, Kang Soojung, Gim Jonggil, Kim Hyeonjoo, Song Heekyung, Choi Bum, Chung Dahyoung, Lim Shan, Song Sujong, kim Kyoung-woon, Yang Eunhee, Shin Chunghoon, Bae Myungji, Woo Jung-Ah, Helen Jungyeon Ku, Ryu Hanseung

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7 Youn Bummo_Korean Art: Dynamism and Expansion



PART 1 FROM “CALLIGRAPHY AND PAINTING” TO “FINE ART” 

15 Kim Inhye_Introduction

21 Kang Mingi_A Transformation in Traditional Korean Painting

39 Mok Soohyun_The Emergence of New Art Forms and the Reorganization of the Art 

Institutions During the Colonial Period

53 Seo Yuri_The KAPF Movement: Art for People and Art for Social Revolution

65 Kim Hyunsook_The Acceptance of Modern Art and the Indigenization of Oil Painting

85 Kwon Heangga_The New Visual Culture of Photography and Print Media



PART 2 ART IN A TIME OF WAR AND DIVISION

101 Liu Jienne_Introduction 

105 Shin Soo-kyung_Art in an Era of Reform: Beyond the Crisis of Liberation and the Korean War

125 Hong Jisuk_Socialist Realism and Juche Art: The Formation of North Korean Art in 1945?67

137 Park Soojin_Art of the Korean Diaspora

153 Cho Eunjung_The National Art Exhibition and the Development of the Art World After 

	Korean Independence 



PART 3 THE TRADITION/MODERNITY DYNAMIC IN THE MODERNIZATION ERA

175 Park Youngran_Introduction

181 Chung Moojeong_The Development of Korean Modern Art and International Exchange

197 Kho Chung-Hwan_The Expansion of Contemporary Korean Printmaking in the Postwar Period

211 Kim Yisoon_The Development of Korean Sculpture from the 1950s to the 1970s

229 Cho Soojin_Experimental Art: The Beginning of Moving Beyond Conventional Genres

247 Kim Keongyeon_Ink Painting from 1945 to the 1970s: To Inherit or Confront Tradition 

265 Kwon Young-jin_Monochrome or Dansaekhwa: The Making of Contemporary Abstraction in 

	 Combination with Korean Tradition



PART 4 DEMOCRATIZATION AND THE PLURALIZATION OF ART 

285 Kang Soojung_Introduction

291 Gim Jonggil_Minjung Art Movement

315 Kim Hyeonjoo_The Polyphony of Feminist Art in Korea

335 Song Heekyung_Hangukhwa: Late Twentieth Century Korean Ink Painting 

357 Choi Bum_National Mega-Events and the Formation of Korean Design

371 Chung Dahyoung_Writing Architecture in Prose: Korean Urban Architecture in the Late 

	 Twentieth Century

383 Lim Shan_1980s Korean Art Beyond Modernism

399 Song Sujong_The Development of Contemporary Photography: Media Experiments and 

	 Diverse Perspectives



PART 5 GLOBALISM AND CONTEMPORARY KOREAN ART

419 Kim Kyoung-woon_Introduction 

423 Yang Eunhee_The Globalization of Contemporary Korean Art in the Era of Biennales

439 Shin Chunghoon_Korean Art and Public Life Since the 1990s

455 Bae Myungji_Korean Video Art Since the 1990s

477 Woo Jung-Ah_The Conceptual Turn of South Korean Art After 1990

495 Helen Jungyeon Ku_The Collective as a New Form of Art Production Since the 2000s

509 Ryu Hanseung_The New Wave of Art: Writing, Movement and Sound

525 Chronology

553 Glossary

557 Contributors

561 List of Plates

569 Index

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