Date of Award

2022

Document Type

MA Project - Open Access

Project Type

MA Project - Curatorial Proposal

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

Art Business

First Advisor

Devon Zimmerman

Second Advisor

Agnes Berecz

Abstract

Emerging from the traumatic devastation of World War II and the economic upheaval that followed, artists in Japan and South Korea adopted similar creative strategies and addressed parallel themes in their artistic responses to the postwar period. Anti-Art in Postwar Korea and Japan brings together artists from the two nations—which share a complex socio-political history—to introduce a new lens through which to understand contemporary East Asian art. Seung-taek Lee, Ha Chong-Hyun, Kim Tschang-Yeul, Lee Ufan, and Nobuo Sekine were few of a number of Korean and Japanese artists who developed comparable practices across the media of painting, sculpture, installation, and performance to communicate postwar sentiments during the 1960s and 70s. Utilizing materials such as rope, stone, wood, and metal, such artists rejected traditional practices by leaving materials and objects in their natural states and bringing attention to materiality and the relationship of “method” to socio-political environment.

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