Interpreting Modernism in Korean Art : Fluidity and Fragmentation (Paperback)

Introduction 1.Modernity, Modernism, and the Modern in Korean Art and Culture (Jung-Ah Woo and Kyunghee Pyun) PartI: Korean Modernity and Modernism 2. Korean Art in the Historiography of Multiple Modernities (Kyunghee Pyun) 3. Modernism and Avant-Garde in Korean Art (Youngna Kim) PartII: Inventing a Modern Nation: Visual Culture at the Turn of the Century 4. The Search for Modernity in Korean Ink-wash Painting (Mingi Kang) 5. Royal Propaganda and National Identity in Emperor Gojong’s Portrait Photography (Heangga Kwon) 6. From Patriotism to Capitalism: Transformation of Korean National Symbols Under Colonial Rule (Soohyun Mok) PartIII: Visualizing Colonial Modernities 7. Modernity and Authenticity in Korean Pictorialism: From Pungsok Painting to Art Photography (Hye-ri Oh) 8. "Vernacular Modernism" in Korea: Lee Quede’s Hyangtosaek and Yanagi Muneyoshi’s Folk Art Movement (Yeon Shim Chung) 9. Korea, Last Retreat in Wartime for Murayama Tomoyoshi, a Modernist (Toshiharu Omuka) PartIV: Cultural Consumption and Modernism 10. Magazine Covers and Colonial Modernity: Politics of the Korean Face (Yuri Seo) 11. Korean Modernists and the Nangnang Parlour Coffeehouse in the 1930s (Younjung Oh) 12. Cultural Network in 1930s Korea: Avant-Garde Practices and Individual Artistry (Inhye Kim) PartV: Modernism as Ideology: Revision and Appropriation 13. Architecture as a Profession in Modern Korea (Hyunjung Cho) 14. Imitation or Necessity: A Framework for Postwar Korean Art in Contemporary Art Criticism (Chunghoon Shin) 15. Never a Failed Avant-Garde: Interdisciplinary Strategy of the Fourth Group in 1969?1970 (Sooran Choi) Epilogue 16.Contemporaneity of Korean Contemporary Art (Jung-Ah Woo)