한국 근대 미인의 형성과 화문(畵文)의 모더니즘-한국 근대 장편소설과 안석주의 신문삽화를 중심으로

Abstract

This article seeks to examine the influence of illustrations on the characterization of characters in the work during the development of modern Korean novels. We would like to focus on the reproduction of the ‘beauty’ female protagonist in the roman-feuilleton illustrated by Ahn Seok-ju. An illustration is not just a complement to the literary texts. With the advent of illustrations in the novel, there was a big change not only in the process of reading the novel but also in the process of writing it. After the illustration appeared, readers began to read the novel by comparing the contents of the novel and the images of the illustrations, and writers began to try to describe the characters and the surrounding environment as elaborate and detailed as the illustrations. Illustrations also played an important role in the formation of realist novels. In this regard, novelists and illustrators were both cooperative and competitive. The paintings of beauties is more of a picture of an idealized woman in a society. In this regard, beauty is not simply determined by an individual’s taste, but rather reflects the ideal aesthetic of a group at a certain time. The time when illustrations of the roman-feuilleton appeared in earnest was when new aesthetic or aesthetic standards, influenced by the West, began to form. The beauty is formed based on two aesthetic systems: linguistic and imaging. If you explain beauty in language, it is not easy to think of the image in detail in your head, and if you express beauty as an image, you can intuitively see it as beauty, but it is not easy to explain it in language. In this regard, the ‘beauty’ in the illustrations of the roman-feuilleton is important in that it combines linguistic descriptions of specific and consistent characters and various illustrations. Lee Kwang-soo’s Mujeong, published without illustrations, did not depict the appearance of the portrait and linearity, but later works such as Jaesaeng and Soil gradually began to depict the appearance of beautiful female characters. Since the 1930s, discussions on Korea’s new ‘beauty’ have been active in meeting Western standards. However, the beauty according to foreign standards often conflicts with actual reality. Yeom Sang-seop’s Kwangboon is a work that deals with the conflicts and catastrophes between the Western and the traditions and Lee Kwang-soo’s The Woman’s Life shows a mixture of Korean and Japanese aesthetic. Writers such as Lee Sang and Park Tae-won are those who were directly in charge of illustrations as well as novels, and show the characteristics of literary-visual modernism.