IKS/Art History Lecture: Jungsil Jenny Lee, "Roaring Bull, Stony Silence, and Abstract Nostalgia: The Trio of Korean Modern Art"

November 15, 2019

5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Pomerene Hall Room 260

Add to Calendar 2019-11-15 18:00:00 2019-11-15 19:30:00 IKS/Art History Lecture: Jungsil Jenny Lee, "Roaring Bull, Stony Silence, and Abstract Nostalgia: The Trio of Korean Modern Art" The Institute for Korean Studies presents:Jungsil Jenny LeeCalifornia State University, FullertonTitle: Roaring Bull, Stony Silence, and Abstract Nostalgia: The Trio of Korean Modern ArtFlyer: Lee Flyer Abstract: Modern awareness and visualization of national identity in Korea emerged during the end of the nineteenth century under threats from foreign powers. This diversified against the Japanese colonial rule, intensified in recovery efforts after the Korean War, and is still used for national promotion on global stages. Many Western-style painters who trained with new painting materials and techniques during the Japanese colonial period are known to present their consciousness of ethnicity in paintings with specific motifs and colors, identified as distinctively Korean. Korean identity was painted and explained in various ways by artists, critics, and viewers, either individually or collectively. This lecture will discuss visualization of Korean-ness in three different cases of Western-style painters, Lee Jung Seob (1916-1956), Park Soo Keun (1914-1965), and Kim Whanki (1913-1974). The discussion addresses their recognition of cultural nationalism, presentation of new Korean painting, and posthumous construction of their reputation as Korea’s most favorite painters.Jungsil Jenny Lee is Lecturer of Asian Art at California State University, Fullerton, and a graduate of Hongik University in Seoul. She studied Japanese art at the University of Maryland and received her doctoral degree in Korean art at University of California, Los Angeles. Lee has continuously taught and promoted Korean art in the Greater Los Angeles area and recently at the University of Kansas. Her research interests include continuity and discontinuity between tradition and modernism in Korean art, with a focus on particularity and interdependency of Korean modern and contemporary art in East Asian and global contexts. She is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively titled Korean Modern Art: Avant-garde Embodiment of Ku Ponung, 1906-1953. Free and Open to the PublicThis event is co-sponsored by the Department of History of Art. The Institute for Korean Studies Lecture series is supported by a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant to The Ohio State University East Asian Studies Center. Pomerene Hall Room 260 OSU ASC Drupal 8 ascwebservices@osu.edu America/New_York public

2019-11-15 17:00:00 2019-11-15 18:30:00 IKS/Art History Lecture: Jungsil Jenny Lee, "Roaring Bull, Stony Silence, and Abstract Nostalgia: The Trio of Korean Modern Art" The Institute for Korean Studies presents:Jungsil Jenny LeeCalifornia State University, FullertonTitle: Roaring Bull, Stony Silence, and Abstract Nostalgia: The Trio of Korean Modern ArtFlyer: Lee Flyer   Abstract: Modern awareness and visualization of national identity in Korea emerged during the end of the nineteenth century under threats from foreign powers. This diversified against the Japanese colonial rule, intensified in recovery efforts after the Korean War, and is still used for national promotion on global stages. Many Western-style painters who trained with new painting materials and techniques during the Japanese colonial period are known to present their consciousness of ethnicity in paintings with specific motifs and colors, identified as distinctively Korean. Korean identity was painted and explained in various ways by artists, critics, and viewers, either individually or collectively. This lecture will discuss visualization of Korean-ness in three different cases of Western-style painters, Lee Jung Seob (1916-1956), Park Soo Keun (1914-1965), and Kim Whanki (1913-1974). The discussion addresses their recognition of cultural nationalism, presentation of new Korean painting, and posthumous construction of their reputation as Korea’s most favorite painters.Jungsil Jenny Lee is Lecturer of Asian Art at California State University, Fullerton, and a graduate of Hongik University in Seoul. She studied Japanese art at the University of Maryland and received her doctoral degree in Korean art at University of California, Los Angeles. Lee has continuously taught and promoted Korean art in the Greater Los Angeles area and recently at the University of Kansas. Her research interests include continuity and discontinuity between tradition and modernism in Korean art, with a focus on particularity and interdependency of Korean modern and contemporary art in East Asian and global contexts. She is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively titled Korean Modern Art: Avant-garde Embodiment of Ku Ponung, 1906-1953.  Free and Open to the PublicThis event is co-sponsored by the Department of History of Art. The Institute for Korean Studies Lecture series is supported by a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant to The Ohio State University East Asian Studies Center. Pomerene Hall Room 260 America/New_York public

The Institute for Korean Studies presents:

Jungsil Jenny Lee
California State University, Fullerton

Title: Roaring Bull, Stony Silence, and Abstract Nostalgia: The Trio of Korean Modern Art

Flyer: Lee Flyer

Bull, Tree and Two Women, and Tranquility Images

Abstract: Modern awareness and visualization of national identity in Korea emerged during the end of the nineteenth century under threats from foreign powers. This diversified against the Japanese colonial rule, intensified in recovery efforts after the Korean War, and is still used for national promotion on global stages. Many Western-style painters who trained with new painting materials and techniques during the Japanese colonial period are known to present their consciousness of ethnicity in paintings with specific motifs and colors, identified as distinctively Korean. Korean identity was painted and explained in various ways by artists, critics, and viewers, either individually or collectively. This lecture will discuss visualization of Korean-ness in three different cases of Western-style painters, Lee Jung Seob (1916-1956), Park Soo Keun (1914-1965), and Kim Whanki (1913-1974). The discussion addresses their recognition of cultural nationalism, presentation of new Korean painting, and posthumous construction of their reputation as Korea’s most favorite painters.

Jungsil Jenny Lee is Lecturer of Asian Art at California State University, Fullerton, and a graduate of Hongik University in Seoul. She studied Japanese art at the University of Maryland and received her doctoral degree in Korean art at University of California, Los Angeles. Lee has continuously taught and promoted Korean art in the Greater Los Angeles area and recently at the University of Kansas. Her research interests include continuity and discontinuity between tradition and modernism in Korean art, with a focus on particularity and interdependency of Korean modern and contemporary art in East Asian and global contexts. She is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively titled Korean Modern Art: Avant-garde Embodiment of Ku Ponung, 1906-1953.

Free and Open to the Public

This event is co-sponsored by the Department of History of Art. The Institute for Korean Studies Lecture series is supported by a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant to The Ohio State University East Asian Studies Center.