Interpreting Modernism in Korean Art

Kyunghee Pyun is Associate Professor of History of Art at the Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, USA. Jung-Ah Woo is Associate Professor of Art History at the Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea.

• Introduction; 1. Modernity, Modernism, and the Modern in Korean Art and Culture (Jung-Ah Woo and Kyunghee Pyun); Part I: 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); Part II: 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); Part III: 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); Part IV: 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); Part V: 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)