@article{ART002850118},
author={Ji Eun Sung},
title={Reality of Art, Art of Reality: Lee Yil’s Early Art Criticism (1962-1974)},
journal={Journal of History of Modern Art},
issn={1598-7728},
year={2022},
number={51},
pages={5-29},
doi={10.17057/kahoma.2022..51.001}
TY - JOUR
AU - Ji Eun Sung
TI - Reality of Art, Art of Reality: Lee Yil’s Early Art Criticism (1962-1974)
JO - Journal of History of Modern Art
PY - 2022
VL - null
IS - 51
PB - 현대미술사학회
SP - 5
EP - 29
SN - 1598-7728
AB - In this essay, I examine how art critic Lee Yil placed Korean art within the topography of the international art world and what he proposed as the future of Korean art, envisaging autonomous Korean art in the 1960s and the 1970s. I particularly focus on the concept of reality, which was transformed in many ways in his criticism. In his representational view of art, that is, “art which draws what is seen,” reality was the ‘fact’ that is seen. Encountering the discourse of contemporary civilization and related new art forms in the mid-1960s, Lee Yil came to comprehend reality, the object of art, as contemporary civilization, and proposed technology- and object-based art as an ideal of Korean art. This overlapped with the activity of the Korean Avant-garde Association, which actively used Marshall McLuhan’s perspective in their art discussion. Nonetheless, in 1971, after a series of attempts and doubting the feasibility and legitimacy of applying the discourse of contemporary civilization to Korean art, Lee Yil came up with a new concept of reality, which was a phenomenologically reduced world, and also with a new kind of art form, which he called “obŭje art.” Lee’s continuous attempts to keenly react to the currents of the international art world, to seek the meaning of reality, and thus, to discover and realize a desirable kind of Korean art were the basis of diverse artistic experimentations during the period.
KW - Lee Yil;Korean Avant-garde Association;objet art;reality;realism;art criticism;post-coloniality;contemporary Korean art
DO - 10.17057/kahoma.2022..51.001
ER -
Ji Eun Sung. (2022). Reality of Art, Art of Reality: Lee Yil’s Early Art Criticism (1962-1974). Journal of History of Modern Art, 51, 5-29.
Ji Eun Sung. 2022, "Reality of Art, Art of Reality: Lee Yil’s Early Art Criticism (1962-1974)", Journal of History of Modern Art, no.51, pp.5-29. Available from: doi:10.17057/kahoma.2022..51.001
Ji Eun Sung "Reality of Art, Art of Reality: Lee Yil’s Early Art Criticism (1962-1974)" Journal of History of Modern Art 51 pp.5-29 (2022) : 5.
Ji Eun Sung. Reality of Art, Art of Reality: Lee Yil’s Early Art Criticism (1962-1974). 2022; 51 : 5-29. Available from: doi:10.17057/kahoma.2022..51.001
Ji Eun Sung. "Reality of Art, Art of Reality: Lee Yil’s Early Art Criticism (1962-1974)" Journal of History of Modern Art no.51(2022) : 5-29.doi: 10.17057/kahoma.2022..51.001
Ji Eun Sung. Reality of Art, Art of Reality: Lee Yil’s Early Art Criticism (1962-1974). Journal of History of Modern Art, 51, 5-29. doi: 10.17057/kahoma.2022..51.001
Ji Eun Sung. Reality of Art, Art of Reality: Lee Yil’s Early Art Criticism (1962-1974). Journal of History of Modern Art. 2022; 51 5-29. doi: 10.17057/kahoma.2022..51.001
Ji Eun Sung. Reality of Art, Art of Reality: Lee Yil’s Early Art Criticism (1962-1974). 2022; 51 : 5-29. Available from: doi:10.17057/kahoma.2022..51.001
Ji Eun Sung. "Reality of Art, Art of Reality: Lee Yil’s Early Art Criticism (1962-1974)" Journal of History of Modern Art no.51(2022) : 5-29.doi: 10.17057/kahoma.2022..51.001
