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Korea's traditional beauty

  • PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE
  • 2008, (7), pp.1~27
  • Publisher : Research Institute for East-West Thought
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities

Kim,Yong-Jung 1

1동국대학교

ABSTRACT

This paper outlines Korea's traditional beauty based on the country's ceramic art and the artistic quality of the Seokguram Grotto of the Silla era. The author owes to the Koh, Yoo-seop's theory and the studies by Japan's Yanagi Muneyoshi, who is one of the founders of Korean aesthetics and also one of the pioneers of the ceramic art and a few Korean archeology fine art historians to describe Korea's traditional beauty in his own way. What fine art historians and aestheticians note about Korea's traditional beauty in common is artless art, inartificial artificiality, indifference or heedlessness. This means a nature-oriented, nature-creates-nature attitude without a sense of purpose or preconditions in production of works. Immanuel Kant called such indifferent beauty of an purposeness objectivity free beauty, which has something in common with Korea's traditional beauty. In this vein, the author conducted a comparative study by giving a chapter to Korea's traditional beauty viewed based on Kantian aesthetics.

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