나의 ‘미술사와 미학’ - 체험적 접근 -

Abstract

About My ‘Art History and Aesthetics’ - an empirical approach - Kwon Youngpil (Former Professor, the Korean National University of Arts) This essay is about the development of Korean art history and aesthetic studies from the 1960s until now based on my personal experiences. Here, especially, I focus on the interrelationship between art history and aesthetics. In the early 60s, the two fields of studies were still under the influences of Kyung-sung(jap. Kei-jo) University which was founded during the colonial ages of Japan, and the lectures on art history were just focusing on the historical backgrounds even without showing slides-that is, there were no image materials used. However, in the 70s, we can see that the tendencies in the study of Korean art history had been somewhat “globalized” to the point of introducing the theory of style of the German school. Since the 1980s, there had been serious studies on the methodology of art history. The Korean Society of Art History had played a primary role in the center of the studies. In contemporary era, the field of art history has been developed a lot to the point of making different schools. However, the need of aesthetic interpretation on the specific phenomena of the art history still remains. In the mean time, the study on German aesthetics of the ‘Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities’ in USA could be a good lesson to us.