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- Title
Artistic Motives in Korean Art Traditions: Self-Cultivation, Self-Enjoyment, and Self-Forgetting.
- Authors
Choi, Dobin
- Abstract
In this essay, I discuss Korean artists' multi-layered, internal motives for engaging in artistic practices: their artistic devotion derives from their desires for moral self-cultivation, self-enjoyment, and self-forgetting. I speculate that these tendencies were intensified in Korean cultural traditions by distinctive sociopolitical circumstances of the Joseon period under the dominance of Neo-Confucianism, such as a fixed social hierarchy and Sino-centrist perspectives. This interpretation provides a useful lens for better understanding contemporary Korean artistic practices in both the fine and popular arts.
- Subjects
SOUTH Korea; ARTISTS; KOREAN art; CULTURE; KOREAN history; NEO-Confucianism
- Publication
Journal of Aesthetics & Art Criticism, 2022, Vol 80, Issue 3, p362
- ISSN
0021-8529
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jaac/kpac032