@article{ART003278852},
author={Kang Hea Seung},
title={Surrealism in Korean Art Re-read Through Modern Literature},
journal={Journal of History of Modern Art},
issn={1598-7728},
year={2025},
volume={0},
number={58},
pages={7-30},
doi={10.17057/kahoma.2025..58.001}
TY - JOUR
AU - Kang Hea Seung
TI - Surrealism in Korean Art Re-read Through Modern Literature
JO - Journal of History of Modern Art
PY - 2025
VL - 0
IS - 58
PB - 현대미술사학회
SP - 7
EP - 30
SN - 1598-7728
AB - This study re-examines the aspects of Surrealism in the Korean modern art scene through its interrelationship with the literary field of the 1930s. This article highlights the influence of modern literature on Surrealism as a hybrid artistic movement in Korea. In the absence of substantial contemporary art criticism addressing Surrealist phenomena, the analysis turns to modern literary texts and critical writings to elucidate how Surrealist visual language acquired meaning as a new artistic vocabulary within the lived conditions of colonial modernity. In Korean art discourse, Surrealism has led to its reduction to a figurative mode. This study, however, challenges such interpretations by demonstrating that Surrealism in the modern Korean art scene functioned as a new avant-garde practice, embraced as an expanded notion of abstraction rather than its antithesis. Furthermore, it argues that the influence of Surrealism extended into the late 1940s, when its legacy was transformed into the formative aesthetics of “Neo-Reality.”
KW - Surrealism;Intellectualism;Gyeongseong Modernity;Reality;3 4 Literature;Neo-Realistic School
DO - 10.17057/kahoma.2025..58.001
ER -
Kang Hea Seung. (2025). Surrealism in Korean Art Re-read Through Modern Literature. Journal of History of Modern Art, 0(58), 7-30.
Kang Hea Seung. 2025, "Surrealism in Korean Art Re-read Through Modern Literature", Journal of History of Modern Art, vol.0, no.58 pp.7-30. Available from: doi:10.17057/kahoma.2025..58.001
Kang Hea Seung "Surrealism in Korean Art Re-read Through Modern Literature" Journal of History of Modern Art 0.58 pp.7-30 (2025) : 7.
Kang Hea Seung. Surrealism in Korean Art Re-read Through Modern Literature. 2025; 0(58), 7-30. Available from: doi:10.17057/kahoma.2025..58.001
Kang Hea Seung. "Surrealism in Korean Art Re-read Through Modern Literature" Journal of History of Modern Art 0, no.58 (2025) : 7-30.doi: 10.17057/kahoma.2025..58.001
Kang Hea Seung. Surrealism in Korean Art Re-read Through Modern Literature. Journal of History of Modern Art, 0(58), 7-30. doi: 10.17057/kahoma.2025..58.001
Kang Hea Seung. Surrealism in Korean Art Re-read Through Modern Literature. Journal of History of Modern Art. 2025; 0(58) 7-30. doi: 10.17057/kahoma.2025..58.001
Kang Hea Seung. Surrealism in Korean Art Re-read Through Modern Literature. 2025; 0(58), 7-30. Available from: doi:10.17057/kahoma.2025..58.001
Kang Hea Seung. "Surrealism in Korean Art Re-read Through Modern Literature" Journal of History of Modern Art 0, no.58 (2025) : 7-30.doi: 10.17057/kahoma.2025..58.001
