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This is the first comprehensive monograph on the pioneer of Korean avant-garde, Seung-taek Lee.

Seung-taek Lee was born in 1932 in Gowon, Hamgyeongnam-do (currently a province in North Korea). Part of a generation that was deeply affected by the Korean War, he was exposed to works by Russian Constructivist and Realist artists at school and was trained in realistic depiction. As a refugee settled in Seoul, his determination to be an artist of the time was super-ordinary, exploring the possibilities of formless art or site-specific installation works in the 1960s, when no such concept had yet been introduced to the Korean art scene.

Lee is best known for his “bound” series of object-based three-dimensional works and his “wind” series of ephemeral performances. Much of Lee’s paintings, sculptures, and environmental interventions share a kinship with both American land art and Korean shamanic traditions, and they embrace chance and ephemer

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      Publisher: Mondadori Electa
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 1/12/2024
      ISBN13: 9788891840011, 978-8891840011
      ISBN10: 8891840017
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This is the first comprehensive monograph on the pioneer of Korean avant-garde, Seung-taek Lee.

      Seung-taek Lee was born in 1932 in Gowon, Hamgyeongnam-do (currently a province in North Korea). Part of a generation that was deeply affected by the Korean War, he was exposed to works by Russian Constructivist and Realist artists at school and was trained in realistic depiction. As a refugee settled in Seoul, his determination to be an artist of the time was super-ordinary, exploring the possibilities of formless art or site-specific installation works in the 1960s, when no such concept had yet been introduced to the Korean art scene.

      Lee is best known for his “bound” series of object-based three-dimensional works and his “wind” series of ephemeral performances. Much of Lee’s paintings, sculptures, and environmental interventions share a kinship with both American land art and Korean shamanic traditions, and they embrace chance and ephemer

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