ABSTRACT
This book examines the development of national emblems, photographic portraiture, oil painting, world expositions, modern spaces for art exhibitions, university programs of visual arts, and other agencies of modern art in Korea.
With few books on modern art in Korea available in English, this book is an authoritative volume on the topic and provides a comparative perspective on Asian modernism including Japan, China, and India. In turn, these essays also shed a light on Asian reception of and response to the Orientalism and exoticism popular in Europe and North America in the early twentieth century.
The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, the history of Asia, Asian studies, colonialism, nationalism, and cultural identity.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |13 pages
Introduction
part I|21 pages
Korean Modernity and Modernism
part II|32 pages
Inventing a Modern Nation
chapter 6|11 pages
From Patriotism to Capitalism
part III|34 pages
Visualizing Colonial Modernities
chapter 7|8 pages
Modernity and Authenticity in Korean Pictorialism
part IV|37 pages
Cultural Consumption and Modernism
chapter 12|12 pages
A Cultural Network in 1930s Korea
part V|35 pages
Modernism as Ideology
chapter 14|12 pages
Imitation or Necessity
chapter 15|10 pages
Never a Failed Avant-Garde
part |18 pages
Epilogue