{"product_id":"the-minjung-art-movement-sohl-lee-9781478033233","title":"The Minjung Art Movement: Decolonization and Democracy in South Korea","description":"Emerging as multifaceted cultural activism, the \u003ci\u003eminjung\u003c\/i\u003e (people's) art movement defined the aesthetics of the pro-democracy movements in the 1970s and 1980s in South Korea. Tracing minjung art's history and legacy, Sohl Lee explores how artists associated with the movement mobilized images, print, and performance to build movement publics and reimagine sovereignty. Hundreds of artists questioned the underlying assumptions of liberal democracies and the art-making practices of the global Cold War. Their decolonial critiques of international modernism were inseparable from reimagining democracy and refiguring the relationship between art and democracy. Recuperating overlooked performance-oriented practices and the protest aesthetics that helped usher in parliamentary democracy in 1987, Lee shows that South Korea's globalization in the 1990s and its rise as cultural soft power in the new millennium cannot be understood apart from a pro-democracy culture that was both political and popular.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sohl Lee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1478033231\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781478033233\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/14\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.98lbs","brand":"Sohl Lee","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47520199999743,"sku":"9781478033233","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1690bb51-f488-41e0-a24a-4f79619fd300.jpg?v=1762884129","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-minjung-art-movement-sohl-lee-9781478033233","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}