Minjung Art
Nota de aplicación
An artistic movement in South Korea beginning in the 1980s and lasting until the 1990s. Minjung Art roughly translates as ‘people’s art’ although the meaning in Korean is more nuanced, implying a collective consciousness of action against the mainstream. The movement developed out of the wider Minjung movement in Korea that began in the 1960s, especially as a response to the military suppression of Gwangju Uprising in 1980 and as a reaction…