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'Participation in Urban Civilization' in Korean Art of the Late 1960s
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1960년대 말 한국미술의 '도시문명에의 참여'

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Shin, Chunghoon (한국예술종합학교)
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Korean Association Of Art History Education Art History No.28 KCI Accredited Journals
Published
2014.8
Pages
189 - 217 (29page)
DOI
10.14769/jkaahe.2014.08.28.189

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The late 1960s witnessed the emergence of new terms such as “modern civilization,” “urban civilization,” “industrial civilization,” “everyday life,” “machine civilization,” “urban world,” and “consumer civilization” in the discourse of Korean art. While a plethora of new terms indicates a dearth of a shared definition of the new society to which they sought to refer, it reveals a new awareness that Korean society was on the verge of, if not in the midst of, totally new formations. The aim of this paper is to elucidate the significant role of that awareness in the production of Korean art in the late 1960. To this end, this paper focuses on a particular set of advanced practices such as ‘environmental work’, ‘Happenings’, and ‘geometrical abstraction,’ of which advent in the Korean art scene should be understood as inseparable from the urbanization and transformation of everyday surroundings that made optimistic visions of a new society much more tangible than any other forces.
This paper argues that the late 1960s saw what might be called a urban turn in Korean art, which was widely performed not only by the new generation of post-Informel artists (‘environmental work’ and ‘Happenings’) but also by established ones in their 30s and 40s (‘geometrical abstraction’). Although the turn has received little attention in the existing literature, it occupied a central position in the work of art critic Yi Il (1932-1997) in the late 1960s. For him, who was highly informed during his sojourn in Paris by a noticeable surge in attention to the artistic use of everyday objects and the fusion of art and architecture, a radical immersion into the urban environment defined the characteristic of new ‘avant-garde.’ Calling for ‘participation in urban civilization,’ the critic urged Korean artists to depart from artistic existentialism embodied by Korean Informel in favour of the enthusiastic incorporation of elements from a new urban society. Pointing out that the ‘participation in urban civilization’ attitude arose among the Korean artists for serious consideration, this paper deals with largely ignored issues and works regarding the late ‘60s urban turn as a result of a complex interplay among various artistic and socio-spatial forces.

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Ⅰ. 머리말
Ⅱ. “항거가 아닌 참여”, 포스트-앵포르멜 세대의 도시적 감수성
Ⅲ. “도시의 미술”로서 기하학적 추상
Ⅳ. 1960년대 말 서울의 변모와 ‘미래주의 서사’
Ⅴ. 맺음말
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