Aesthetics of Ridicule: The Anti-Confucian Discourse and Duplex Criticism in Shin Yun-bok’s Paintings - Softcover

Lim, Tae-seung

 
9783659547508: Aesthetics of Ridicule: The Anti-Confucian Discourse and Duplex Criticism in Shin Yun-bok’s Paintings
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ISBN 10: 3659547506 ISBN 13: 9783659547508
Verlag: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2014

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Shin Yun-bok’s (1758-?) satire, which pointed out the hedonistic social aspect in the capital of Joseon, constituted a blow to the noblemen’s moral authority. We can see in his paintings that in the late Joseon dynasty, the ruling ideology, Confucianism, became sullied and collapsed in its faculties as both mental principles and basis for social order. Shin’s genre paintings show by way of ridicule that he rejected the traditional structure of Confucian aesthetics and devalued the fixed relationship between image and text. The two significant characteristics of Shin’s style of genre paintings are “one icon representing two codes” and “leverage of ideology and mentalité.” Shin’s genre paintings are a meaningful landmark because they showed and established a new order of mentalité. The mentalité established in inverse proportion to that situation, however, was also not sound. Even though Shin disclosed the moral collapse by satirically criticizing the hedonistic life of the yangban class in his paintings, the very depictions expressed in Shin’s works also captured the social changes and emergences of modernity. This is a significant virtue of Shin’s paintings.

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Shin Yun-bok's (1758-?) satire, which pointed out the hedonistic social aspect in the capital of Joseon, constituted a blow to the noblemen's moral authority. We can see in his paintings that in the late Joseon dynasty, the ruling ideology, Confucianism, became sullied and collapsed in its faculties as both mental principles and basis for social order. Shin's genre paintings show by way of ridicule that he rejected the traditional structure of Confucian aesthetics and devalued the fixed relationship between image and text. The two significant characteristics of Shin's style of genre paintings are "one icon representing two codes" and "leverage of ideology and mentalité." Shin's genre paintings are a meaningful landmark because they showed and established a new order of mentalité. The mentalité established in inverse proportion to that situation, however, was also not sound. Even though Shin disclosed the moral collapse by satirically criticizing the hedonistic life of the yangban class in his paintings, the very depictions expressed in Shin's works also captured the social changes and emergences of modernity. This is a significant virtue of Shin's paintings.

Biografía del autor

Ph.D: Studied East Asian Aesthetics at Peking University. Professor of East Asian Studies at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, Korea

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Verlag
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3659547506
ISBN 13 
9783659547508
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