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@article{ART002536177},
author={Kyunghee Pyun},
title={Debbie Han’s Graces: Hybridity and Universality},
journal={Journal of History of Modern Art},
issn={1598-7728},
year={2019},
number={46},
pages={191-212},
doi={10.17057/kahoma.2019..46.008}

TY - JOUR
AU - Kyunghee Pyun
TI - Debbie Han’s Graces: Hybridity and Universality
JO - Journal of History of Modern Art
PY - 2019
VL - null
IS - 46
PB - 현대미술사학회
SP - 191
EP - 212
SN - 1598-7728
AB - Debbie Han is a contemporary artist based in Los Angeles. In this essay, I would like to elucidate the meaning of her photo series Graces , created in 2004, in the context of the hybridity and multiculturalism of contemporary art. In my reading, Han’s own life experience as a “1.5-generation” Korean-American growing up in Los Angeles in the 1980s and 1990s plays a crucial role when comparing her works with those of other immigrant women artists in the U.S. Her Graces series can be read as cultural icons of contemporary Asian societies’ predilection for the Western standard of beauty forcefully imposed on Asian women—and gradually accepted as desirable values internalized by women themselves. By contextualizing Han’s works in the tradition of Korean avantgarde art, concepts of manipulated beauty and conformity, and Korean feminist art, this paper posits that Han’s works tactfully–or sometimes humorously–comment on this pan-Asian phenomenon of corrected beauty, by means of surgical interventions on the one hand, and by the visual language of her rediscovered heritage of the homeland on the other.
KW - hybridity;universality;ethnic sculpture;homeland;diaspora;standard of beauty;masterpiece
DO - 10.17057/kahoma.2019..46.008
ER -

Kyunghee Pyun. (2019). Debbie Han’s Graces: Hybridity and Universality. Journal of History of Modern Art, 46, 191-212.

Kyunghee Pyun. 2019, "Debbie Han’s Graces: Hybridity and Universality", Journal of History of Modern Art, no.46, pp.191-212. Available from: doi:10.17057/kahoma.2019..46.008

Kyunghee Pyun "Debbie Han’s Graces: Hybridity and Universality" Journal of History of Modern Art 46 pp.191-212 (2019) : 191.

Kyunghee Pyun. Debbie Han’s Graces: Hybridity and Universality. 2019; 46 : 191-212. Available from: doi:10.17057/kahoma.2019..46.008

Kyunghee Pyun. "Debbie Han’s Graces: Hybridity and Universality" Journal of History of Modern Art no.46(2019) : 191-212.doi: 10.17057/kahoma.2019..46.008

Kyunghee Pyun. Debbie Han’s Graces: Hybridity and Universality. Journal of History of Modern Art, 46, 191-212. doi: 10.17057/kahoma.2019..46.008

Kyunghee Pyun. Debbie Han’s Graces: Hybridity and Universality. Journal of History of Modern Art. 2019; 46 191-212. doi: 10.17057/kahoma.2019..46.008

Kyunghee Pyun. Debbie Han’s Graces: Hybridity and Universality. 2019; 46 : 191-212. Available from: doi:10.17057/kahoma.2019..46.008

Kyunghee Pyun. "Debbie Han’s Graces: Hybridity and Universality" Journal of History of Modern Art no.46(2019) : 191-212.doi: 10.17057/kahoma.2019..46.008