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Colonial Connections: Interpreting and Representing Korea through Art and Material Culture at the Cleveland Museum of Art (1914 – 1945)

Ward, Logan Seay
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu161816049503051

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2021, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, East Asian Studies.
This thesis examines the interpretation and representation of Korea and Korean people through Korean art and material culture at the Cleveland Museum of Art (1914 – 1945). To meet these ends, this research focuses on contextualizing the museum and its Korean art collection through an intersectional lens that considers both Japanese colonial and Western hegemonies. This contextualization reveals how the purposes of the modernist, universal survey museum and the hermeneutics of Japanese colonial historiography of Korea and Eurocentric Orientalism incorporated the ways that Euro-Americans appropriated Korean material culture into the museum to understand Korean civilization and people, thus reproducing Japanese colonial hegemony over Korea and validating Western colonial-imperial hegemonies generally. Based on articles from The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art and other primary sources, Korea typically occupied a position under Japan in the museum’s iconographic program. Similarly, museum professionals at CMA, such as Langdon and Lorraine D’O. Warner, were directly involved with the Japanese colonial apparatus in Korea, and admired its colonial efforts. I argue that this resulted in the double Orientalization of Korea, as such researchers adapted Japanese colonial knowledge about Korean material culture for the purposes of Western enlightenment, resulting in Korea becoming both the West’s and Japan’s inferior Other in the museum space.
Pil Ho Kim (Advisor)
Dana Carlisle Kletchka (Committee Member)
Sooa Im McCormick (Committee Member)
152 p.
Art Education; Art History; Asian Studies; History; Industrial Arts Education; Museum Studies; Museums
Korean art; Korean art history; Orientalism; Korean studies; museum studies; museology; Japanese studies; Japanese colonialism; museum education; East Asian studies; East Asian art; East Asian art history

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  • Ward, L. S. (2021). Colonial Connections: Interpreting and Representing Korea through Art and Material Culture at the Cleveland Museum of Art (1914 – 1945) [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu161816049503051

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Ward, Logan. Colonial Connections: Interpreting and Representing Korea through Art and Material Culture at the Cleveland Museum of Art (1914 – 1945). 2021. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu161816049503051.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Ward, Logan. "Colonial Connections: Interpreting and Representing Korea through Art and Material Culture at the Cleveland Museum of Art (1914 – 1945)." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu161816049503051

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