[KS] Korean Art market during the colonial period?

Frank Hoffmann hoffmann at koreaweb.ws
Mon Sep 24 05:27:46 EDT 2007


Hello Hyung Il:

Thank you for your very informative response!
I should apologize, as I have missed to note that 
I am mostly looking for information about the art 
market as regards to *modern* art during the 
colonial period. Japanese dealers and collectors 
had certain motivations to collect antiques and 
traditional arts, and also folk art, and nobody 
has written more exciting analyses about these 
topics than you (and Kim Brandt).
Buying and collecting Korean contemporary art of 
that period was an entirely different story, as 
you know. Misulsa nondan has, you mentioned it, 
come out with a 700 pages strong special add-on 
volume in 1999 with reprinted Korean and Japanese 
press reports and essays that relate to the 
government sponsored annual Chosen Art 
Exhibition. A very helpful volume indeed. And 
there are two other journals that deal with 
various aspects of modern art -- Han'guk kûndae 
misulsahak (1994- ) and Kûndae misul yôn'gu 
(2004- ) -- but I have not yet seen any article 
dealing with the market and collecting modern 
art, with the only exception of some studies on 
the development of the "museum" in Japan and 
Korea.

Again thank you for your input.

Frank

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