City Masses Culture, Brochure, 1992, MMCA Art Research Center Collection
City Masses Culture
* Source: Multilingual Glossary of Korean Art. Korea Arts Management Service
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Visual culture
A term that can refer to all visual dimensions of human culture, including the fine arts. The modern era development of civil society and scientific technology, mass production, and urbanization has all influenced the expansion of popular culture and recreational culture. This resulted in the emergence of an expanding diversity of visual artifacts, and related changes in sensory modes of experience and epistemological structures of production and reception. Visual culture, in this context, has emerged as a subject of discourse within the art and academic community. The category of visual culture therefore commonly incorporates visual creations including not only art, but film, video, and television media and photographs, posters, cartoons, and advertisements, and the concepts and ideologies and institutional structures that inform such. The academic interest in visual culture emerged in the 1970s as a result of the influence of the “New Art History,” which rejected the traditional methodologies and instead concentrated on the social and political contexts of production. In Korea, art organizations such as Reality and Utterance and the Research Society for Art Criticism explored the theoretical and practical potential of visual culture after the 1980s, and after the 1990s, visual culture was established as a subject of research in Korean art history.
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Research Society for Art Criticism
The Research Society for Art Criticism (Misul bipyung yeonguhoe) was founded by several critics interested in the field of progressive realism, such as Lee Youngwook, Shim Kwanghyun, and Lee Youngchul in 1989. The group aimed to develop the theoretical grounding for a new Korean nationalist art movement and methodology applicable to the rapidly changing social and cultural environment in Korea. They focused on Korean modern art, critical theory, cultural theory, and mass media theory. By providing theoretical support for Minjung art, the group played a significant role in the mainstream emergence of socially critical art in Korea. Major members of the society included Sung Wan-kyung, Lee Youngwook, Shim Kwanghyun, Lee Youngchul, Park Sinui, Eom Hyeok, Park Chan-kyong, Beck Jee-sook, Lee Youngjun, Kim Suki, Kim Jinsong, Kang Sungwon, Paik Han-ul, Oh Museok, Lee Yunam, Cho Bongjin, Choi Bum, Cho In-su, Gal Hong, Yang Hyunmi, Kim Yongcheol, and Lee Juyeong. The group was disbanded in July 1993.
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