ARTS 410 - Unpacking North Korean Art

Semester Offered: Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 Credits
Attribute: 4HU

This seminar course aims to rethink North Korean art by placing it in the larger picture of international socialist art movements in the twentieth-century. We will take a comparative, interdisciplinary approach to North Korean art by juxtaposing it with nineteenth-century Russian realism, inter-war leftist art movements, American regionalism, socialist realism, “totalitarian” art, and post-socialist art initiated in the diverse locales of the world including Soviet Russia, China, Vietnam, East Germany, America, France, Japan, and Central Asia. The topics of our class discussion will include the history of capitalism/socialism, post-colonial discourse, the Cold War, the ideologies of self-reliance, and anti-communism.
Enrollment Limit: 15
Instructor: Y. Lee
Prerequisites & Notes
A l00-level course in art history