@article{ART002536176},
author={Chaeki Freya Synn},
title={Race, Nation, and Exoticism in Pai Un-soung's Self-Portraits},
journal={Journal of History of Modern Art},
issn={1598-7728},
year={2019},
number={46},
pages={165-190},
doi={10.17057/kahoma.2019..46.007}
TY - JOUR
AU - Chaeki Freya Synn
TI - Race, Nation, and Exoticism in Pai Un-soung's Self-Portraits
JO - Journal of History of Modern Art
PY - 2019
VL - null
IS - 46
PB - 현대미술사학회
SP - 165
EP - 190
SN - 1598-7728
AB - This paper intends to discuss Pai Un-Soung’s self-portraits of his European period (1923-1940) in the context of the complex socio-political background involving two colonial/imperial powers: Japan and the Nazis. Focusing particularly on early 1930s Berlin cabaret culture, the paper situates and discusses Pai along with cabaret performer Mary Wigman. I compare Wigman’s interpretation and understanding of the East and the exotic with Pai’s experiences, and how they are expressed in his paintings. The paper also deals with the late 1930s racial policy of Nazi Germany, which shed light on some of Pai’s self-portraits incorporating Japanese iconography. Here, Hitler’s personal view of the Chinese and the Japanese races becomes an integral part of Pai’s way of communicating his own racial identity under the Nazi regime. The artist also actively borrows and appropriates iconography from traditional European paintings in order to reveal and communicate pride in his own “racial purity” as a Korean. As opposed to some previous scholarship framing Pai’s works under the East/West, Japan/Korea dichotomy, the paper situates the artist in the gap between multiple colonial powers where race and the exotic function as the central means of communication regarding self-expression.
KW - Pai Un-Soung;race;exoticism;colonialism;self-portrait;identity
DO - 10.17057/kahoma.2019..46.007
ER -
Chaeki Freya Synn. (2019). Race, Nation, and Exoticism in Pai Un-soung's Self-Portraits. Journal of History of Modern Art, 46, 165-190.
Chaeki Freya Synn. 2019, "Race, Nation, and Exoticism in Pai Un-soung's Self-Portraits", Journal of History of Modern Art, no.46, pp.165-190. Available from: doi:10.17057/kahoma.2019..46.007
Chaeki Freya Synn "Race, Nation, and Exoticism in Pai Un-soung's Self-Portraits" Journal of History of Modern Art 46 pp.165-190 (2019) : 165.
Chaeki Freya Synn. Race, Nation, and Exoticism in Pai Un-soung's Self-Portraits. 2019; 46 : 165-190. Available from: doi:10.17057/kahoma.2019..46.007
Chaeki Freya Synn. "Race, Nation, and Exoticism in Pai Un-soung's Self-Portraits" Journal of History of Modern Art no.46(2019) : 165-190.doi: 10.17057/kahoma.2019..46.007
Chaeki Freya Synn. Race, Nation, and Exoticism in Pai Un-soung's Self-Portraits. Journal of History of Modern Art, 46, 165-190. doi: 10.17057/kahoma.2019..46.007
Chaeki Freya Synn. Race, Nation, and Exoticism in Pai Un-soung's Self-Portraits. Journal of History of Modern Art. 2019; 46 165-190. doi: 10.17057/kahoma.2019..46.007
Chaeki Freya Synn. Race, Nation, and Exoticism in Pai Un-soung's Self-Portraits. 2019; 46 : 165-190. Available from: doi:10.17057/kahoma.2019..46.007
Chaeki Freya Synn. "Race, Nation, and Exoticism in Pai Un-soung's Self-Portraits" Journal of History of Modern Art no.46(2019) : 165-190.doi: 10.17057/kahoma.2019..46.007
