서양미술사] 서양미술사의 확장된 시간과 공간

Abstract

In this paper, I investigated the recent research trends and explored future prospects of Western art history in Korean academia. In order to understand the changes in research topics, I divided the subject matters of Master’s theses, Doctoral dissertations, and articles of academic journals, which were published in recent years, by eras and regions, and compared the proportion of each sub-category. It turns out that the number of papers on modern and contemporary art after the 20th century has continued to increase. A remarkable change is that the comparative studies across geographical and periodic divisions have been widely conducted on the scholarly foundations of Western art history. This change is meaningful, not only because these comparative researches would deepen the understanding of modern Korean or Asian art history, but also would eventually deconstruct the hegemonic narrative of European-centered Western art history. I also tried to respond to the issues raised in prior researches, such as continuous expansion of modern and contemporary fields and skepticism about their status as history, questions about the validity of geographical boundaries of the West, and the problematic of applying Western theories and historical frameworks in evaluating Korean art.