Asian City as Affective Space
Commercial Signs and Mood in the Paintings of Manoël Pillard
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13100355 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Seunghan Paek (0000-0003-2825-6924, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 222-222 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Verge Studies in Global Asias (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2373-5058 • E-ISSN: 2373-5066 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5749/vergstudglobasia.2.1.0222 |
| OpenAlex | W2320244621 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This article explores the affectivity of sign-filled urban environments in contemporary Asia by taking the French painter Manoël Pillard's nightscape paintings produced during his trips to Seoul between 1998 and 2008 as a case. In his paintings, Pillard scrupulously renders each commercial sign in great detail to capture the way the multiple neon signs create a particular mood and atmosphere in Seoul's nightscapes, which ultimately sets up a world of sense that is social, physical, and communal. Pillard's receptive way of seeing the nightscapes and his foreignness to the Korean language enable him to perceive the commercial environments afresh and thus to produce paintings that elicit the singularly plural, spectacularly ordinary, and distracting but sense-provoking aspects of the Asian metropolis
Aesthetics · Art · Atmosphere (unit · Geography · Linguistics · Mood · Painting · Plural · Sign (mathematics · TRIPS architecture · Visual arts · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Engineering · Japanese History and Culture · Night-time city culture · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,22 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2019 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |