The Minjung Art Movement : decolonization and democracy in South Korea / Sohl Lee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lee, Sohl, author, translator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minjung art.

Art and state--Korea (South).

Art and state.

Social movements in art.

Art, Korean.

Korea (South)--Art--20th century.

Korea (South).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 398 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2026.

Summary:

Sohl Lee traces how South Korea's minjung art movement of the 1970s and 1980s forged decolonial protest aesthetics that helped galvanize democratization and why its practices continue to resonate with artists and activists today.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

List of Illustrations

Note on Transliteration and Translation

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Decolonizing Modernism During the Cold War: Origins of the Minjung Art Movement

2. The Visual Cultural Turn for Decolonial Democracy: Forms and Methods of Reality and Utterance (1979-1984)

3. The Decolonial Place of Vernacular Folk Culture In Democracy: Turŏng, Collective Painting, and Sited Knowledge Production (1982-1985)

4. To Bring Back to Life: On the Metonym of Democracy (1987)

5. Exhibiting Minjung Art Abroad: Tokyo, New York, and Pyongyang In the Twilight of the Cold War (1986-1989)

Conclusion. Revolutionary Presents: Making Histories of Decolonial Democracy

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-4780-6199-5

9781478061991

OCLC:

1578783588