Front Picture: Pak Sŏk-chŏng, Workers of Japan and Korea Unite! in Puroretaria bijutsu (Proletarian Art), no.2 (1932); Excerpted from Emiko Kida,

“Japanese-Korean Exchange within the Proletarian Visual Arts Movement” in Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique 14.2 (2006): 495-525

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The Art and Politics of East Asia workshop provides a common intellectual forum for students and scholars of diverse fields investigating the interaction of aesthetics with political economics as reflected in textual and visual media in East Asia.  Taking as its focus the cultural products emerging out of East Asian societies as they experience modernity, the workshop confronts existing theoretical frameworks and methodological issues relevant to the study of artistic production and consumption.  The workshop is a space for students to share their work, discuss major cross-regional themes, and engage the work of noted scholars in the field.

In organizing workshops, we would like to highlight two general questions in this year of 2007-8.  First, how do we perceive art and politics of East Asia with a comprehensive and integrated view beyond the national and geographical boundaries?  Second, what is the relationship between art and politics, and in what ways can we make a more meaningful contribution to the East Asian studies through our understanding of art and politics?  By actively engaging these questions, we hope to not only enrich our perspectives combining different disciplines and academic experiences, but also challenge the conventional views in the field of East Asian studies.  

If you have any questions, or are interested in presenting at the Art and Politics of East Asia workshop, please contact one of the student coordinators.

Faculty Sponsors: Norma Field and Kyeong-Hee Choi
Student Coordinators: Nicholas Albertson (nea@uchicago.edu), Jae-Yon Lee (jaelee@uchicago.edu)
Website: http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/apea
Time: Alternate Fridays, 3:00–5:00 p.m., Judd 313.

Previous workshops were organized by:

In 2006-7

Faculty Sponsors: Norma Field and Kyeong-Hee Choi
Student Coordinators: Anup Grewal and Chun Chun Ting 

In 2005-6

Faculty Sponsors: Norma Field and Gregory Golley
Student Coordinators: Mamiko Suzuki and Mika Endo

In 2004-5  

Faculty Sponsors: Kyeong-Hee Choi, Gregory Golley, and  Michael Raine
Student Coordinators: Yoon Sun Yang and Hyun-Jeong Lee