The Shape of Time: Korean Art After 1989 - Couverture souple

Agro, Elisabeth; Woo, Hyunsoo

 
9780876333020: The Shape of Time: Korean Art After 1989
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0876333021 ISBN 13 : 9780876333020
Editeur : Yale University Press, 2023

Synopsis

A lavishly illustrated overview of contemporary Korean art that offers new insight into the country's tumultuous modern history and its multifaceted and vibrant art scene

Focusing on the work of 33 artists, this volume examines the ways contemporary Korean art reflects the dynamic changes in the country following the 1980 Gwangju Uprising and 1988 Seoul Olympics, when a newly democratic South Korea opened up to the rest of the world and quickly became a key player, both economically and culturally, on the global stage. Among the works featured are complex installations by Do Ho Suh and siren eun young jung; sculptures made from disparate materials by Yeesookyung; embroideries that engage with fraught political issues via covert transactions with embroiderers in North Korea by Kyungah Ham; and paintings of contemporary pop figures made using traditional East Asian techniques by Donghyun Son. Essays by a diverse group of scholars position the works in their historical and sociopolitical contexts within the accelerated timeline--and resulting compression of past, present, and future--of what has been called Korea's long twenty-first century. With artist biographies, an illustrated chronology, and a selected bibliography, this study is the first English-language presentation of this material and is a significant contribution to the interpretation and understanding of contemporary Korean art and culture.

Distributed for the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Exhibition Schedule:

Philadelphia Museum of Art
(October 21, 2023-February 11, 2024)

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À propos de l?auteur

Elisabeth Agro is the Nancy M. McNeil Curator of American Modern and Contemporary Crafts and Decorative Arts, and Hyunsoo Woo is the Pappas-Sarbanes Deputy Director for Collections and Exhibitions and the former Maxine and Howard Lewis Curator of Korean Art, both at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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Éditeur
Yale University Press
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0876333021
ISBN 13 
9780876333020
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
264
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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