검은 미디어, 감각의 공동체 ―1980년대의 시민미술학교와 민중판화의 흐름―

Abstract

This paper is researching about Art School for Citizen and historical flow of wood block print (Panhwa) made by people in 1980s' Korea. The rough style of black wood block prints that appeared on publications in the late 1970s and were made by Art School for Citizen students contained a reversing and resisting sense against mainstream art and commercial art. Wood block print calendar and books with wood block print cover were published and sold popularly. In the Art School for Citizen, night school for laborer and print school for college students, people had meetings and made a temporary community to engrave wood block (or rubber block) prints and share them. In this community, artists encountered non-artist people and citizens met arts. Laborer who escaped from works for wages did an autonomous creative action and college students experienced an art for lives. All the subjects deviated from the identified action of routines and in this course print making was a media to breaking away from their identity given by nation and capitalism. The word 'Minjung (people)' was like a water passage to escape from their existing identities with print making. The exhibition <Prints in the age of Minjung> was held at universities across the country and 'democracy of art' was discussed between artists after exhibition. The energy to deviate from the existing identity and reverse the existing art stream was concentrated through the printmaking and it was one of the causes that made people's uprising in 1987 possible.