Contemporary Korean Art: Tansaekhwa and the Urgency of Method

by Joan Kee

Book Overview

Starting in the mid-1960s, a group of Korean artists began to push paint, soak canvas, drag pencils, rip paper, and otherwise manipulate the materials of painting in ways that prompted critics to describe their actions as "methods" rather than artworks. A crucial artistic movement of twentieth-century Korea, Tansaekhwa (monochromatic painting) also became one of its most famous and successful. Promoted in Seoul, Tokyo, and Paris, Tansaekhwa grew to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816679886
• ISBN13: 9780816679881
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.1" x 10.0"