{"product_id":"the-minjung-art-movement-decolonization-and-democracy-in-south-korea-paperback-softback-9781478033233","title":"The Minjung Art Movement; Decolonization and Democracy in South Korea (Paperback \/ softback) 9781478033233","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Minjung Art Movement\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eDecolonization and Democracy in South Korea\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSohl  C. Lee (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781478033233\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 24 April 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e420 pages, 136 color illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.794 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“This groundbreaking book examines how \u003ci\u003eminjung\u003c\/i\u003e artists played a pivotal role in Korea’s democratization and decolonization. Through bold experimentation, cross-cultural collaboration, and active participation in sweeping social change, these artists not only responded to but also shaped a turbulent political era. An essential read for anyone interested in the intersection of art, activism, and history.”—Namhee Lee, Professor of Modern Korean History, University of California, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"By situating minjung within the broader global history of political art and collectives, Lee highlights its significance in a longer global history of art, while also connecting its relevance to contemporary discussions on collective practices, shifting attention to the role of art in fostering collective action and envisioning new social possibilities. Not merely a cultural phenomenon, but a politically charged force that embodied and activated the collective will in opposition to an authoritarian state, the Minjung art movement demonstrates the capacities of what art can do in troubled times.\" —Ming Tiampo, Professor of Art History, Carleton University\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eEmerging as multifaceted cultural activism, the \u003ci\u003eminjung\u003c\/i\u003e (people’s) art movement defined the aesthetics of the pro-democracy movements in the 1970s and 1980s in South Korea. Tracing minjung art’s history and legacy, Sohl Lee explores how artists associated with the movement mobilized images, print, and performance to build movement publics and reimagine sovereignty. Hundreds of artists questioned the underlying assumptions of liberal democracies and the art-making practices of the global Cold War. Their decolonial critiques of international modernism were inseparable from reimagining democracy and refiguring the relationship between art and democracy. Recuperating overlooked performance-oriented practices and the protest aesthetics that helped usher in parliamentary democracy in 1987, Lee shows that South Korea’s globalization in the 1990s and its rise as cultural soft power in the new millennium cannot be understood apart from a pro-democracy culture that was both political and popular.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of Illustrations  ix\u003cbr\u003e Note on Transliteration and Translation  xv\u003cbr\u003e Preface and Acknowledgments  xvii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Decolonizing Modernism during the Cold War: Origins of the Minjung Art Movement  41\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Visual Cultural Turn for Decolonial Democracy: Forms and Methods of Reality and Utterance (1979–\u003cbr\u003e1984)  87\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Decolonial Place of Vernacular Folk Culture in Democracy: Turŏ\u003cbr\u003eng, Collective Painting, and Sited Knowledge Production (1982–\u003cbr\u003e1985)  137\u003cbr\u003e 4. To Bring Back to Life: On the Metonym of Democracy (1987)  197\u003cbr\u003e 5. Exhibiting Minjung Art Abroad: Tokyo, New York, and Pyongyang in the Twilight of the Cold War (1986–\u003cbr\u003e1989)  237\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. Revolutionary Presents: Making Histories of Decolonial Democracy  283\u003cbr\u003e Notes  307\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  363\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52702555472152,"sku":"9781478033233","price":25.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-minjung-art-movement-decolonization-and-democracy-in-south-korea-paperback-softback-9781478033233","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}