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Elastic taboos

Lee Young-Chul, Yun Nan-Jie · 2007

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Exploring the taboos in contemporary Korean art reveals the picture of a society that has been torn by dreadful contradictions for millenniums and even in the recent past and will be informed by these oppositions also in the near future. Since the 1960s, the country has slowly recovered from the terrible war that ended in 1953 and began to change dramatically. In the course of five decades, it has transformed from a rural society to a rapidly growing urban world. These dramatic upheavals have affected the whole society and its rules. What was absolutely taboo yesterday has become permitted and even encouraged - and vice versa. Elastic Taboo assembles a broad spectrum of works by artists that have never been shown toget. With preface by Gerald Matt. Images of works in the catalogue are accompanied by artist interviews and biographies. -- Asia Art Archive, viewed 01/03/2021

Book details

Year
2007
Language
English
Publisher
Verlag Fur Moderne Kunst Nurnberg
Editions
1
Pages
192
ISBN
9783939738213

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