근대 장애예술가의 조망과 의의

Abstract

There were many people with disabilities among the world-famous artists. Of course, there were many disabled artists in our country. During the Joseon Dynasty, there were appeared many disabled artists, such as writer, painter, musician, and so on, and I found that there were about fifteen disabled artists in modern history. Especially, disabled artists in modern history were often labeled the first or the best modifier. It means that activities of modern disabled artists were pioneering and excellent in those days. Nevertheless, no one had studied modern disabled artists in earnest. So I found out their background of appearance, the lives of modern disabled artists and social situation in this paper. And I divided the modern disabled artists into writer, painter, musician and other characters, and I have studied them in order. Above all, this study is to the first to attempt to research the modern disabled artists. Therefore, I have progressed discussion in the way that I have outlined and introducing faithfully their lives and achievement, after searching for a lot of the people involved. And then I substituted for conclusion by pointing out a comprehensive features and their meaning of modern disabled artists. Despite the disorder in childhood, the modern disabled artists entered various pieces of arts, such as literature, painting, music, film, story and so on. And then, through the work of arts in gloomy society, they tried to communicated with the world and turn the social self-realization. Thus we need to remember not only a famous disabled artists in the West but also the modern disabled artists of our country.