Professor
CHUN, YOUNG PAIK
Professor, Dept. of Art History & Theory
Young Paik Chunis Professor of Art History at the Hongik University in Korea where she has lectured on Modern and Contemporary histories of art since 1999. She has published numerous articles on modern and contemporary British, European, and Korean art and visual culture. Her publications in English are ‘Mother's Anger and Mother's Desire: the Work of Re-Hyun Park’in Generations and Geographies in the Visual Arts(London: Routledge, 1996), ‘Looking at Cézanne through his own eyes,’ Art History(June 2002), ‘Melancholia and Cézanne's Portraits: Faces beyond the Mirror’in Psychoanalysis and the Image(London: Blackwell, 2006), ‘Korean Contemporary Art on British Soil in the Transnational Era,’ Journal of Global Studies and Contemporary Art(GSCA)(Febuary 2013). Among books she published in Korea are Cézanne‘s Apples: Thinkers attracted by Cézanne(Seoul: Hangilart, 2008; Awarded by Korean Ministry of Culture), Twenty-Two Artists Talk through Generations: Self-Portrait of Korean Contemporary Art since the 1970s(Seoul: Kungree, 2010) and The Room of an Elephant; Contemporary Art and its Space (Seoul: Doosung, 2016). She has also written over 18 articles in Korean associations of art history, among which is ‘Meaning of Place to The Artist-Traveller: Theoretical Backdrop for The Works of Border-Crossing Korean Artists in Global Context,’ The Korean Society of Art History(Dec. 2013) Her academic interest has been cross-cultural experience and its representation in art works. Her studies at the University of Leeds has formed her major concern of art history on the basis of poststructuralist thinking.
MAJOR
서양 근, 현대 미술사, 시각철학, 한국 현대미술사 및 미술비평
BIOGRAPHY
1999
Ph. D., Dept. of Art History in Leeds University (Leeds, England)
1994
M.A., Dept. of Art History in Leeds University (Leeds, England)
1992
M.A., Dept. of Art History, Hongik University (Seoul, Korea)
1988
B.A., Dept. of Sociology, Yonsei University (Seoul, Korea)
2016-18
Director, Hongik Museum of Art
2013-15
Director, Hongik Museum of Modern Art
2013-15
Chair, The Korean Association of Art History
2012-16
Director, Hongik Institute for Far Eastern Art and Culture
2002-
Member of the editorial board of the Journal of Visual Culture(London, England)
PUBLICATIONS
2013
‘Korean Contemporary Art on British Soil in the Transnational Era,’Journal of Global Studies and Contemporary Art(GSCA)(Febuary 2013)
2006
'Melancholia and Cézanne's Portraits: Faces beyond the Mirror' in Psychoanalysis and the Image (London: Blackwell, 2006)
2002
'Looking at Cézanne through his own eyes,' Art History (June 2002)
1996
'Mother's Anger and Mother's Desire: the Work of Re-Hyun Park' in Generations and Geographies in the Visual Arts (London: Routledge, 1996)

Written Books

2021
Young-Paik Chun, Cézanne‘s Apples, Expanded Edition: Thinkers attracted by Cézanne, Seoul: Hangilsa Publishing
2020
Young-Paik Chun, Change of Ideas. Seoul: Yolimwon
2019
Young-Paik Chun, Decisive Moments of Modern Art: The Exibitions that Make 'isms' in Art History. Seoul: Hangilsa Publishing
2008
Young-Paik Chun, Cézanne‘s Apples: Thinkers attracted by Cézanne, Seoul: Hangilart, 2008. (Awarded by Korean Ministry of Culture)
2016
Young-Paik Chun, The Room of an Elephant; Contemporary Art and its Space. Seoul: Doosung Publishers

Translated Books (from English to Korean)

2005
Madan Sarup, An Introductory Guide to Post-Structuralism and Postmodernism, trans. Young-Paik Chun, Seoul: Chohyunggyoyuk
2005
Thomas Crow, Modern Art in the Common Culture, trans. Young-Paik Chun, Seoul: Art Books
2001
Griselda Pollock, Avant Garde Gambits 1888-1893, trans. Young-Paik Chun, Seoul: Chohyunggyoyuk

Translated Books (from English to Korean in teamwork)

2019
Martin Jay, Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought, trans. Young-Paik Chun, Seoul: Seokwangsa Publishing.
2010
Kaja Silverman, The World Spectators, trans. Young-Paik Chun, Seoul: Yakyung
2005
Hal Foster, The Compulsive Beauty, trans. Young-Paik Chun, Seoul: Art Books

Edited Books

2010
Young-Paik Chun, ed., Twenty-two Artists Talk through Generations: Self-portrait of Korean Contemporary Art since 1970s, Seoul: Kungree

Publication in Korean

- Articles in Academical Journal
‘A Psychoanalytic Reading of Cézanne's Large Bathers,’ Association of Western Art History, Vol. 12, 1999, pp. 61-88.
‘Art History and Psychoanalysis: J. Kristeva's Semiotic Reading of Painting,’ The Korean Society of Art History, Vol. 17, Spring, 2002, pp. 213-251.
‘British Formalist Criticism and the Modernist Art of Bloomsbury,’ Korean Association of Art History Education, No. 17, 2003, pp. 241-274.
‘Art History in an Expanded Field: R. Krauss's Theoretical Development in the Discourse of Art History,’ Korea Association for History of Modern Art, Dec. 2003, pp. 111-144.
‘Urban Space and British Art in the 20th Century: Art and Spatial Politics in London Since the Postwar Period,’ Association of Western Art History, Vol. 21, 2004, pp. 179-218.
‘Reading Artworks via Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenological Perspective,’ The Korean Society of Art History, Vol. 25, Dec. 2005, pp. 271-312.
‘Issues on Photography in Art History: Debates on Photographic Identity in relation to "art",’ The Association of Art History, No. 20, Dec. 2006, pp. 311-342.
‘Art Historical Study on Rising and Declining of Painting Since the 1970s,’ The Korean Society of Art History, Vol. 29, Dec. 2007, pp. 29-58.
‘Conceptual Shock via Communication of Intimacy and Isolation: Antony Gormley and Rachel Whiteread,’ Association of Western Art History, Vol. 30, 2008, pp. 265-293.
‘Looking at Korean Contemporary Art History since the 1960s: through Bourdieu's Sociological Framework of Forms of “Capital”,’ The Association of Art History, No. 23, 2009, pp. 397-445.
‘Methods of ’New Art History’ in British Terrain since the 1970s: Looking at the Art Historical Perspectives of T. J. Clark and G. Pollock,’ Art History and Visual Culture, No. 9, 2010, pp. 272-303.
‘Paradox of Modernity and Emptiness in the City: Benjamin’s Passages and Atget’s photography,’ The Korean Society of Art History, Vol. 37, Dec. 2011, pp. 219-250.
‘On the Sublime and the Uncanny in the Postminimal Work of Anish Kapoor,’ Korea Association for History of Modern Art, Vol. 32, Dec. 2012, pp. 319-352.
‘Meaning of Place to The Artist-Traveller: Theoretical Backdrop for The Works of Border-Crossing Korean Artists in Global Context,’ The Korean Society of Art History, Vol. 41, Dec. 2013, pp. 169-194.
‘A Study on the Mainstreams of Contemporary Art History and Art Criticism Since the 1980s up to the Present: Key Issues of Main Publications During the Last Three Decades,’ The Association of Art History, Vol. 27, Dec. 2013, pp. 447-484.
‘Okakura Kakuzo’s ‘Aesthetic Nationalism’ from the Perspective of Cultural Exchange Revolving around Japanese Pavilions in World Expositions,’ The Association of Art History, Vol. 31, Dec. 2016, pp. 193-228.
‘Realising Human Vision ‘True to Life’ in the Painting: Daivd Hockney’s Way of Seeing against Perspective and Photographic Vision in His Landscape Since the 1980s,’ Association of Western Art History, Vol. 48, 2018, pp. 153-181.
‘Bergson’s Theory of ‘Duration’ and Cézanne’s ‘Image of Time’: Focusing on Cézanne’s Influence over Cubists’ Reception of Bergson,’ Association of Western Art History, Vol. 54, 2021, pp. 131-150.