Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Art & The Quotidian - Lee Bul

Noh, SK.1999 The Korean Pavilion: Critics – La Biennale di Venezia 1999, Lee Bul (online)
http://www.korean-pavilion.or.kr/biennale/english/lee-bul-critic-e.htm [accessed 20 March 2010]

This website run by The Korean Culture & Arts Foundation is a Korean website has both English and Japanese translation, thus was very useful as I needed to look up a Korean artist Lee Bul. It provides information about five hundred different Korean artists in practice today and has a special collection of Korean artists featured in Venice Biennale since 1996 as well as a critic reviews and analysis. It appears to have more detailed facts of the artists and their work then other foreign websites, but lacks concentrated information on visual analysis.



Kent, R. Lee Bul. Sydney: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2005.

Written by a curator of MCA Rachel Kent, this book is very useful in gaining knowledge on Lee's works in chronological order. It contains vast range of quality photographs and photographic documentations of the artwork which its hard to get hands on online, so ill be using it to "present" artworks during my presentation. It also contains Lee's biography towards the end which is helpful in studying Lee's progress. I think it would've been better if it had an actual interview transcript between the Lee and Kent.



Kantor, J. Artforum International - New Museum of Contemporary Art. (Review).(Lee Bul) 2002, (journal)

http://dd8gh5yx7k.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info:sid/summon.serialssolutions.com&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Lee+Bul&rft.jtitle=Artforum&rft.au=Jordan+Kantor&rft.date=2002-10-01&rft.issn=1086-7058&rft.volume=41&rft.issue=2&rft.spage=156&rft.externalDBID=IAFO&rft.externalDocID=212933181 [accessed 20 March 2010]

this journal concentrates on Lee's "live forever" series, its thematic and aesthetic representation as well as the artist's intention and audiences response. its cautious descriptions on visual, functionality and process allows the reader to experience the artwork quite thoroughly despite our passive interaction. the journal written about only one work has its positive and negative aspects, but the quality of the photograph could have been better.

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