Hong Kal
Biographic Data
| ID | 251091 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hong Kal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hong |
| FAMILY NAME | Kal |
| SIGNATURE | KAL H |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Witnessing and Remembering Trauma in Northeast Asia in the Visual Age
This Special Issue is a collaborative attempt by scholars of visual arts, cultural history and literature to contribute to the uncovering of symbolic and materialistic meanings and effects of visual art and media that address urgent issues in the lives of many people in Northeast Asia. Its first goal is to establish the context in which art makers are positioned and to discuss how their memory and post-memory of disasters shape the content of the…
Interpreting modernism in Korean art: Fluidity and fragmentation
Interpreting modernism in Korean art: fluidity and fragmentation." Asian Studies Review, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Retrospective Witnessing: Paintings of Grievous Deaths in the Korean War
This article examines visual arts that represent the mass killings of unarmed civilians by the state before and during the Korean War (1950–1953). It analyses three South Korean artists, Kang Yo-bae, Suh Yongsun and Jeon Seung-il, who produced paintings that made direct reference to the grievous and unjust civilian deaths, a taboo subject that is still controversial in a society bound by the unfinished war. This article seeks to contribute to the…
Commemoration and the Construction of Nationalism: War Memorial Museums in Korea and Japan
This essay looks at two war memorial museums that commemorate military dead in their respective nations: the War Memorial of Korea (hereafter WMK) in South Korea and the Yushukan, the Japanese war museum located in Yasukuni Shrine in Japan, both of which play crucial roles in enhancing conservative patriotic nationalisms in the two countries. Like other war memorial museums, the WMK commemorates the war dead who sacrificed their lives for the def…
Aesthetic Constructions of Korean Nationalism: Spectacle, Politics, and History
While most studies on Korean nationalism centre on textual analysis, Aesthetic Constructions of Korean Nationalism offers a different approach. It looks at expositions, museums and the urban built environment at particular moments in both colonial and postcolonial eras and analyses their discursive relations in the construction of Korean nationalism. By linking concepts of visual spectacle, urban space and governmentality, this book explores how …
Flowing Back to the Future: The Cheongye Stream Restoration and the Remaking of Seoul
This article shows how urban life in Seoul under the Lee Myung-bak government combines neoliberal political economy priorities with an immense accumulation of spectacles. It examines the Cheonggye stream restoration, which has been promoted as upgrading Seoul to become a cleaner, greener and competitive global city. The Cheonggye stream project points to a new form of governance which looks beyond the display of national progress through conventi…
Seoul and the time in motion: Urban form and political consciousness
This paper explores the political effects of the cognitive change in the visual environment of colonial Seoul. It asks how the new urban imagery was perceived by the Korean population. It analyzes the ways in which they experienced urban forms, techniques of advertisement and urban infrastructure such as street‐cars and trains. It argues that the engagement of people with mobility, urban symbols and spectacles in the colonial city had stimulated …
Modeling the West, Returning to Asia: Shifting Politics of Representation in Japanese Colonial Expositions in Korea
The world exposition stemmed from the specific context of nineteenth-century Europe, but by the end of that century, its practice had already spread to the colonies as the imperial powers organized a number of colonial expositions. The colonial exposition was meant to represent colonialism as fundamental to the progress of both the metropole and the colony. The ideas of 'progress' and 'modernity' were represented in such a way that colonial subje…
Aesthetic Constructions of Korean Nationalism: Spectacle, Politics, and History
While most studies on Korean nationalism centre on textual analysis, Aesthetic Constructions of Korean Nationalism offers a different approach. It looks at expositions, museums and the urban built environment at particular moments in both colonial and postcolonial eras and analyses their discursive relations in the construction of Korean nationalism. By linking concepts of visual spectacle, urban space and governmentality, this book explores how …
Modeling the West, Returning to Asia: Shifting Politics of Representation in Japanese Colonial Expositions in Korea
The world exposition stemmed from the specific context of nineteenth-century Europe, but by the end of that century, its practice had already spread to the colonies as the imperial powers organized a number of colonial expositions. The colonial exposition was meant to represent colonialism as fundamental to the progress of both the metropole and the colony. The ideas of 'progress' and 'modernity' were represented in such a way that colonial subje…
Seoul and the time in motion: Urban form and political consciousness
This paper explores the political effects of the cognitive change in the visual environment of colonial Seoul. It asks how the new urban imagery was perceived by the Korean population. It analyzes the ways in which they experienced urban forms, techniques of advertisement and urban infrastructure such as street‐cars and trains. It argues that the engagement of people with mobility, urban symbols and spectacles in the colonial city had stimulated …
Modeling the West, Returning to Asia: Shifting Politics of Representation in Japanese Colonial Expositions in Korea
The world exposition stemmed from the specific context of nineteenth-century Europe, but by the end of that century, its practice had already spread to the colonies as the imperial powers organized a number of colonial expositions. The colonial exposition was meant to represent colonialism as fundamental to the progress of both the metropole and the colony. The ideas of 'progress' and 'modernity' were represented in such a way that colonial subje…
Seoul and the time in motion: Urban form and political consciousness
This paper explores the political effects of the cognitive change in the visual environment of colonial Seoul. It asks how the new urban imagery was perceived by the Korean population. It analyzes the ways in which they experienced urban forms, techniques of advertisement and urban infrastructure such as street‐cars and trains. It argues that the engagement of people with mobility, urban symbols and spectacles in the colonial city had stimulated …
Aesthetic Constructions of Korean Nationalism: Spectacle, Politics, and History
While most studies on Korean nationalism centre on textual analysis, Aesthetic Constructions of Korean Nationalism offers a different approach. It looks at expositions, museums and the urban built environment at particular moments in both colonial and postcolonial eras and analyses their discursive relations in the construction of Korean nationalism. By linking concepts of visual spectacle, urban space and governmentality, this book explores how …
Flowing Back to the Future: The Cheongye Stream Restoration and the Remaking of Seoul
This article shows how urban life in Seoul under the Lee Myung-bak government combines neoliberal political economy priorities with an immense accumulation of spectacles. It examines the Cheonggye stream restoration, which has been promoted as upgrading Seoul to become a cleaner, greener and competitive global city. The Cheonggye stream project points to a new form of governance which looks beyond the display of national progress through conventi…
Commemoration and the Construction of Nationalism: War Memorial Museums in Korea and Japan
This essay looks at two war memorial museums that commemorate military dead in their respective nations: the War Memorial of Korea (hereafter WMK) in South Korea and the Yushukan, the Japanese war museum located in Yasukuni Shrine in Japan, both of which play crucial roles in enhancing conservative patriotic nationalisms in the two countries. Like other war memorial museums, the WMK commemorates the war dead who sacrificed their lives for the def…
Retrospective Witnessing: Paintings of Grievous Deaths in the Korean War
This article examines visual arts that represent the mass killings of unarmed civilians by the state before and during the Korean War (1950–1953). It analyses three South Korean artists, Kang Yo-bae, Suh Yongsun and Jeon Seung-il, who produced paintings that made direct reference to the grievous and unjust civilian deaths, a taboo subject that is still controversial in a society bound by the unfinished war. This article seeks to contribute to the…
Witnessing and Remembering Trauma in Northeast Asia in the Visual Age
This Special Issue is a collaborative attempt by scholars of visual arts, cultural history and literature to contribute to the uncovering of symbolic and materialistic meanings and effects of visual art and media that address urgent issues in the lives of many people in Northeast Asia. Its first goal is to establish the context in which art makers are positioned and to discuss how their memory and post-memory of disasters shape the content of the…
Interpreting modernism in Korean art: Fluidity and fragmentation
Interpreting modernism in Korean art: fluidity and fragmentation." Asian Studies Review, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Japanese History and Culture (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works)