[KS] Transgression & secular values in Korea?

[Frank Hoffmann]

Lauren W. Deutsch pointed to:
>  Phillipe Hausmann©–s image of Marilyn Monroe disguised as Mao (...)

Also very interesting Lauren, but that 1952 work 
by Dali really is again something different, 
although it makes some sense to mention it in 
connection with "transgression." The example/s I 
had in mind, though, are those more serving the 
international art market, all the Chinese takes 
on Andy Warhol's Pop Art Marilyn Monroe silk 
screens with an image of Mao Zedong; these very 
many Chinese counterparts from the 1990s and 
2000s--so many, you can fill an entire museum 
with them.

Professor Juhn Ahn started:
>>  Thank you for showing such deep interest in our conference.

Well, I am sorry if you or others may have 
possibly understood my questions as regards to 
terminology as a violation of academic etiquette? 
But I had already started a new thread anyway to 
avoid that. It's just that some of the terms you 
use in that announcement are key terms used to 
explain what's going on in contemporary arts and 
issues of modernism (in art, literature, and 
film), and that I got totally confused by how you 
use them. Now I read your short explanation and 
understand even less, but it *seems* that you 
indeed do so in the context of RELIGION and 
modernizing society, which is again a very 
unexpected turn (in what I expected). Did not 
know Talal Asad, but looking him up (Wikipedia) I 
see he works on religion in modern Islam and 
Muslims & integration in Europe, etc. All that 
leads to some very different topics.

I any case, completely apart from that call for 
papers text, a discussion about "transgression as 
a strategy" in arts and literature--and how valid 
that really is, as a term and as something that 
we really see--would be welcome. To be frank, 
with or without caps, I have no other places to 
exchange such issues that relate to modern and 
contemporary art AND Korea. It's either art 
critics not being into Korean culture as such or 
art historians of Korea not into modern and 
contemporary art and culture. Maybe we should 
have a separate discussion list for modern Korean 
art and literature?

Regards,
Frank

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Frank Hoffmann
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