Globalization of Art and English Archive
The preceding July/August issue was published as a special edition containing Korean art archives under the title ?ynamic Eye-101 Faces of Korean Art Today.?It was an expansion and assemblage into a single issue of the monthly Asian Contemporary Artists series. From now on, the special archive edition will be augmented in scope to deal with the art of an assortment of Asian countries. 1) Artists were selected based on the results of a survey on 30 experts including critics, curators, and gallerists, and the degree of attention received in our publication (sister magazine: art in Culture). The artist group spanned all generations ranging from those in their 30s to seasoned veterans and represented an array of genres. 2) One page was allocated to each artist with the contents including the artist? photo, profile, images of two or three works, and review articles. It was a sort of artists?yearbook containing the basic information on any given artist. It was startling to find that neither an artist archive or source books had ever once been published in proper English. I would like to highlight this point. It is a shame that the globalization of arts at least in the field of an English archive is still in its infancy, not only in Korea but also in the majority of Asian nations. art in Asia undertook this public work.