Visualizing Colonial Beauty: Female Figure Paintings of Yi Yu-tae, 1943-1944

dc.contributor.advisorLin, Jennyen_US
dc.contributor.authorKim, Ginaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-10-17T16:15:35Z
dc.date.issued2014-10-17
dc.description.abstractThis thesis aims to reexamine images of Korean women as signs that represent the intertwined imperial and patriarchal masculine desires as depicted in the Female Figure Paintings of Korean artist Yi Yu-tae (1916-1999): Women: Wisdom, Impression, Sentiment (1943) and A Pair of Figures: Rhyme and Research (1944). Existing interpretations of both works are problematic because they see the depictions of women in the paintings as representative of Korean women in 1940s. By investigating the Pacific War time gender hegemonies, like the "Wise Mother, Good Wife" rhetoric that opposed that of the "New Woman," and exploring Japanese Imperial Orientalism towards Korea, this study will provide an alternative reading of Yi's two Female Figure Paintings. By demonstrating how male psyches were projected on women during this period of Korean history, this thesis aims to offer a feminist understanding of Yi's images of women.en_US
dc.description.embargo2016-10-17
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/18530
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregonen_US
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.en_US
dc.subjectFemale Figure Paintingsen_US
dc.subjectGender and Arten_US
dc.subjectJoseon Art Exhibitionen_US
dc.subjectKorean Arten_US
dc.subjectWar Propaganda Arten_US
dc.subjectYi Yu-taeen_US
dc.titleVisualizing Colonial Beauty: Female Figure Paintings of Yi Yu-tae, 1943-1944en_US
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertationen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineDepartment of the History of Art and Architectureen_US
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregonen_US
thesis.degree.levelmastersen_US
thesis.degree.nameM.A.en_US

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