Books by Kyunghee Pyun

This book challenges existing notions of what is "American" and/or "Asian" art, moving beyond the identity issues that have dominated art-world conversations of the 1980s and the 1990s and aligning with new trends and issues in contemporary art today, e.g. the Global South, labor, environment, and gender identity.

This book is based on the conference held at the Charles B. Wang Center, Stony Brook University on March 24-25, 2017. "Documenting Korean Costume: Primary Sources and New Interpretations" have invited eleven scholars of dress history and fashion studies to discuss function and meaning of primary sources in Korean dress history. The legacy of Korean dress, as seen in archaeological findings and museum artifacts, is analyzed in comparison to the dress and fashions of other Asian countries. Korean dress and accessories have evolved into varied forms in modern times. Historians and prominent practitioners of dress-making and jewelry crafting present modern applications of centuries-old traditions of Korean dress in contemporary arts and designs. These leading experts also discuss the development of Korean dress and highlight how it is deeply related to political and economic aspects of Korean history.

This is a collection of papers presented at the international conference held at the Center for Korean Studies, University of California, Berkeley on March 14-15, 2019. In this conference entitled Picturing Identities and Ideologies in Modern Korea: Transnational Perspectives for Visual Culture, scholars have noted a few topics and themes of visual culture: new forms of popular culture, including novels, magazines, and newspapers, as well as official public monuments presented a new image of the nation in the changing environment of world expositions and international congresses. With three speakers and one discussant in each, four breakout session themes are as follows: ¿ Representing Public and Private Identities ¿ Constructing Ethnonational Identity ¿ Making of the Artistic Personality ¿ Picturing Ethnic Identity

A Catalogue of the third archive exhibition from the AHL Foundation''s Archive of Korean Artists in America