PART 1THE KOREAN AVANT-GARDE, MODERNISM AND MODERNITY: 1953-1987INTRODUCTIONKOREAN MODERN ART AND THE CONFLICTS OF TRADITION AND MODERNITY, c.1953HISTORICIZING THE ANT-GARDE CONTEXTS IN POST-WAR KOREA: FROM EXPERIMENTAL ARTS TO COLLECTIVE GROUPS IN THE 1960s AND 1970sDANSAEKHWA: AESTHETICS OF KOREAN ABSTRACT PAINTINGREALITY AND UTTERANCE: IN AND AGAINST MINJUNG ARTPHOTOGRAPHY'S CROOKED PATH: FROM STATE APPARATUS TO THE MONUMENT OF DEMOCRACYMODERNITY IN NORTH KOREAN ART: SOCIALIST REALISM, JOSEONHWA AND PHOTOGRAPHYPART 2FROM POSTMODERNISM TO CONTEMPORANEITY IN KOREA: 1988-PRESENTTHE TURN OF THE CENTURY: ART IN KOREA IN THE 1990sPOSTMODERN NEW GENERATION ART IN KOREATHE GWANGJU BIENNALE, BUSAN BIENNALE AND MEDIACITY SEOUL: CO-CULTURAL ASPIRATIONS AND GLOBALIZATION IN KOREATHE PARADOXICAL PLACE OF THE FEMALE BODY IN KOREAN FEMINIST ARTCONTEMPORARY KOREAN MEDIA ART: OPENING THE SPACE OF IN-BETWEENDISLOCATIONS/ RELOCATIONS: CONTEMPORANEITY IN KOREAN ARTINTERROGATIONS OF PLACE: KOREAN AMERICAN ART IN THE LATE 1980s AND 1990sGLOSSARYINDEXACKNOWLEDGEMENTSBIOGRAPHIESCREDITS