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Only the Young: Experimental Art in Korea, 1960s–1970s, English

Only the Young: Experimental Art in Korea, 1960s–1970s, English

$65.00 at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Edited with text by Kyung An, Kang Soojung. Text by Cho Soojin, Joan Kee, Yeilim Lee, Yoon Jin-sup, and Youngin Arial Kim. A pioneering survey of Korea’s dynamic postwar avant-garde, with new translations of manifestos, articles, and primary sources The 1960s and 1970s marked a period of exceptional change in Korea, propelled by rapid urbanization and modernization, and influenced by an authoritarian state at home and a globalizing world beyond. Young artists of the era were not immune to these unprecedented…