A comprehensive survey on painter Kim Tschang-Yeul, a critical figure in Korean contemporary art
Korean painter Kim Tschang-Yeul (born 1929), alongside Nam June Paik, initiated the contemporary art movement in Korea. This book provides a chronology of Tschang-Yeul’s career, featuring reproductions of his hyper-realistic water-droplet paintings alongside essays and an artist interview.
PRAISE AND REVIEWS
New York Times
Jason Farago
More exciting is a new monograph of the painter Kim Tschang-yeul, now 90, who was a contemporary of the Dansaekhwa painters but violated their prohibition on imagery in the form of trompe-l’oeil water droplets that bead and drip from his canvases. For Mr. Kim, a refugee from North Korea who speaks even today of the trauma of the peninsular war, these water drop paintings effect a strange melding of hyperrealism and abstraction, always trying but never succeeding to come to terms with the past.
FORMAT: Hbk, 10.75 x 12.25 in. / 220 pgs / 100 color. LIST PRICE: U.S. $39.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $55 GBP £37.00 ISBN: 9782330130077 PUBLISHER: Actes Sud AVAILABLE: 3/3/2020 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: FLAT40 PUBLISHING STATUS: Out of stock indefinitely AVAILABILITY: Not available TERRITORY: WORLD excl UK FR BE CH
A comprehensive survey on painter Kim Tschang-Yeul, a critical figure in Korean contemporary art
Korean painter Kim Tschang-Yeul (born 1929), alongside Nam June Paik, initiated the contemporary art movement in Korea. This book provides a chronology of Tschang-Yeul’s career, featuring reproductions of his hyper-realistic water-droplet paintings alongside essays and an artist interview.
