Aesthetic constructions of Korean nationalism : spectacle, politics, and history
Title:
Aesthetic constructions of Korean nationalism : spectacle, politics, and history
Asia's transformations
Asia's transformations.
Author:
Kal, Hong, author.
ISBN:
9780415602563
9780415857529
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
London : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2011.
Physical Description:
xix, 164 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series:
Asia's transformations
Asia's transformations.
Contents:
Introduction -- Part I: Modernity, colonial expositions and the city -- Nationalism and the politics of visual comparison: the 1915 Korean Industrial Exposition -- Modeling the west, returning to Asia: the 1929 Korean Exposition -- Seoul in motion: urban form and political consciousness -- Part II: Korean nationalism and postcolonial exhibitions -- The temple of ethnic nationalism: war memorial museums in Korea and Japan -- Ancestors, the avant-garde, and the making of "culture" in postcolonial Korea -- Flowing back to the future: the Cheonggye stream restoration.
Abstract:
'Aesthetic Constructions of Korean Nationalism' chooses expositions, museums and the urban built environment at particular moments in both colonial and postcolonial eras and analyses their discursive relations in the construction of Korean nationalism.
Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-158) and index.
Field 805:
npmlib 南院 10619807 DS916.35 K35 sblib