제 목(TitlHegel and 18th c. Korean hanging scroll Tell you the truth, I put a posting on Undernet of visiting LACMA on 20th (Sat.) and asking company; exhibit titled "Korean Art of the 18th Century: Splendor & Simplicity." A girl replied. For the first time I (she, also) had chance to appreciate "original" of Kim Hong-do, Sin Yun-bok, etc. A yellowish-brown, silky hanging scroll (late 18th century) struck me hard. A wild chrysanthemum by India ink (su-muk-hwa). Though scroll reveals sumptuousness of shining silk, its sonorous mood creates mysterious, yet heart-touching, harmony with the picture, which is balck and white, it contains. I felt women of Cho-son; simple'n easy, softness with diginity, and quietness. Don't dare to mention Korean hanging scroll if you haven't seen this master piece: National Treasure #744. If art reflects socity as a whole, that of Cho-son wasn't stationary; it was a vital, dynamic society. I saw Greek, Baroque, 19th c. realism, modernism, etc. in this exhibit. The image of Cho-son I (we?) got is mostly from those pictures by missionaries; calm, heavy, dark, unclean, chilling mood of Late Cho-son. Modern mind regards this as something that should be overcome quickly, to get advance onto the "universal" stage of World history. Hegel even dismissed China from the "History"--Korea? you figure. Maybe, Hegel's (or the West) critical fault isn't making/treating "Locality" (West) as "universality," but "Universality" (East) as "locality." It was a small but enlightening exhibt for us (she told me so). I forced her to have lunch, with me, at the Soup Exchange near the LACMA. Got movie and went to Bear's Cave to drink beer. She was cool. Was I? Working behind... -------------------------------------------- 혹시라도 어쩌다가 아픔같은 것이 저며올 때는 그럴 땐 바다를 생각해 바다 ... ----- 김민기의 <봉우리> 중에서 ----------- J jhan@ucsd.edu