The dream of the audience : Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951-1982)

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The dream of the audience : Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951-1982)

Constance M. Lewallen ; with essays by Lawrence R. Rinder and Trinh T. Minh-ha

University of California Berkeley Art Museum : University of California Press, 2001

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Catalog of a touring exhibition organized by the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum

Exhibition held at the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Sept. 12-Dec. 16, 2001 and five other locations through June, 2003

Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-162) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha came of age as an artist in the San Francisco Bay Area of the 1970s, a decade of enormous artistic, cultural, social and political transformation. Despite her untimely and tragic death, she created an extraordinarily rich and complex body of work that reflected the profound developments of her time and place - including the radical changes in art - and her own cultural alienation. "The Dream of the Audience", a touring exhibition organized by the Berkeley Art Museum, showcases the full range of work by this influential yet underrepresented Korean American artist, who worked in media ranging from performance, video, and film to artists' books, mail art, and works on paper and cloth. This book, designed to accompany the exhibition, is an essential reference to Cha's work. It contains three essays that provide an in-depth context to her visual art and the fullest analysis of her work to date. This volume's comprehensive view of Cha's oeuvre illuminates the recurring themes and formal approaches that distinguish her art. Constance M. Lewallen traces the influences on Cha's development while she was a student at the University of California, Berkeley, and places her work in the context of the artistic and social climate of the San Francisco Bay Area. Lawrence R. Rinder analyzes the theoretical underpinnings of the artist's multileveled and interrelated work. Trinh T. Minh-ha's essay is a poetic evocation of Cha's work as it relates to her ancestry and the suffering of the Korean people under the Japanese colonial policy of deracination. Together the essays show how her rich and original art is informed by a dizzying array of influences - from French film theory to Korean history.

Table of Contents

Director's Foreword Acknowledgments Theresa Hak Kyung Cha-Her Time and Place, by Constance M. Lewallen The Plurality of Entrances, the Opening of Networks, the Infinity of Languages, by Lawrence R. Rinder White Spring, by Trinh T. Minh-ha Afterword, by Bernadette Hak Eun Portfolio of Images Narrative Chronology, by Susette Min Exhibition History Bibliography Catalogue of the Exhibition

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Details

  • NCID
    BA53811027
  • ISBN
    • 0520232879
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Berkeley
  • Pages/Volumes
    xi, 172 p.
  • Size
    29 cm
  • Subject Headings
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