The Impact of the Korean War on the Arts
| Kim, Youngna | |
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| Name in Latin Alphabet: | Kim, Youngna |
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| Nationality: | Republic of Korea |
| Affiliation: | National Museum of Korea |
강연 소개
In many ways, the people of Korea are still waiting for the Korean War to end. In some sense, the Korean War which broke out in 1950, is an unfinished war for Koreans. The standoff between North Korea and South Korea across the demilitarized zone located on , of the 38th Parallel, continues to wield invisible influence over both countries, not only in politics, but also in over almost all other aspects of the countries such as economy, society, and and culture. Although the war has been directly represented in several landmark works of Korean literature, However, unlike literary field where such landmark works as Choi In-hun’s Gwangjang (The Square) by Choi In-hun and, Yi Byeong-ju’s Jirisan (Mt. Jiri ) by Yi Byeong-ju, were produced, there has not been very few works of visual art which have explicitly addressed this national trauma many works that directly represented Korean war in the field of visual arts. It seems that the distress of witnessing the ideologically motivated massacres, retaliations, and other atrocities of the that they witnessed during the war Korean War effectively deterred Korean artists caused them from responding with to avoid making works of with a distinctly explicit political nature. Alcharacter. Even though the war and its aftermath clearly had a lingering effect on of the war continued to possess these artists, for almost two decades, most of them were only able to artistically rectify their horrific memories and experiences or memories of the war had been dealt with rather through metaphorically.
This presentation is a survey of the impact of the Korean War on art and artists in Korea. First, it will present the activities and works of the official troop of war photographers and war artists, respectively troop. Then, it will examine how the Korean War was remembered by artists in government-commissioned war monuments and works based on personal wartime experience. also consider how the Korean War is being remembered through examining works based on the government-commissioned war monuments as well as on personal experience. Finally, Lastly it will analyze more recent look at the works by artists the later generation who did not experience the war, to and see how the Korean War has been viewed by later generations.
강연 영상
The Impact of the Korean War on the Arts
