한국 페미니즘 미술의 역사, 담론의 재구성 : 1980년대 ‘여성미술’과 1990년대 ‘포스트모던 페미니즘 미술’

Abstract

This study focuses on the period when Korean feminist art and criticism, which had begun in close relationship with Minjung misul in the mid-1980s, encountered postmodernist discourses in the 1990s. The trend of New Art History and cultural studies persuaded art historians and critics to participate in the discourse of Korean feminist art. However, what emerged was a history based on binary opposition that constructed a generational framework for feminist art. An ideologically driven political movement of ‘Yeoseong misul (Women’s Art)’ in the 1980s was set against an ideologically free and formally experimental ‘postmodern feminist art’ in the 1990s. To challenge this historiography composed of conflict and linear development, the essay first analyzes two exhibitions of Yeoseong misul: “Let’s Open the Floodgate” (1988) and “Women and Reality” (1987-1994).<BR> Feminist art in the 1990s developed alongside exhibitions, in which Kim Honghee played a critical role as a curator. Also, Kim wrote the first history of Korean feminist art within the generational framework, from which most other writers take their cue. However, the teleological historiography dividing generations and emphasizing development needs to be reexamined. This paper investigates Kim’s “Woman, the Difference and the Power” (1994) and “Patjis on Parade” (1999) in this context.<BR> On the other hand, the practice of feminist artists who participated in the cultural research group Hyunsilmunhwayeongu in the 1990s, along with “Let’s Open the Floodgate” and “Women and Reality” in the 1980s, reveals the two generations were neither clearly divided nor in conflict. But rather, the feminist artists gathered and scattered to meet the demands of each time and society, resisting dominant ideology. This study, by dismantling the generational framework, attempts to propose the possibility of an art history that articulates difference without becoming the subject of rigid categorization or a totalizing thought system.