Contemporary art in early colonial Korea: the self portraits of Ko Hui-dong

• Autores: Joan Kee
• Localización: Art history: journal of the Association of Art Historians, ISSN 0141-6790, Vol. 36, Nº. 2 (April), 2013, págs. 392-417
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Historires of modern art in Korea frequently begin with the self-portrait of Ko Hui-dong (1886-1965), widely recognized as the first examples of Western-style oil painting by a Korean artist. His three existing self-portraits were painting right before, or just shortly after Japan's annexation of Korea in 1910, when the shift to colonial rule dramatically raised the stakes of representation. This essay argues that in addressing this shift and its implications, Ko's self-portraits thus anticipate the emergence, and more importantly, the ambiguity of "hyondae misul", a phrase doubly invoked to refer to both modern and contemporary art. They embodied what might be describe as the predicament of understanding the potential of contemporaneity in a time that seemed overly determinated by the impweratives of a certain model of modernity predicated on teleology and the attendant destabilisation of long-standing forms of social order.