Abstract
This study set out to investigate what obscenity was to figure out why it was so prevalent in modern society. The investigator would make works to criticize commercialization of sex in modern society and understand the flow of the times with ...
Abstract
This study set out to investigate what obscenity was to figure out why it was so prevalent in modern society. The investigator would make works to criticize commercialization of sex in modern society and understand the flow of the times with the female body as a material. The study would explain about the backgrounds of obscenity in South Korea and examine researches on the eroticism of Georges Albert Maurice Bataille and the sex discourse of Paul Michel Foucault in philosophy, thus figuring out what the philosophical concepts of the investigator's works would try to talk about. The investigator would search for directions for his works based on his investigation into the works of artists what were ahead of their times in dealing with social taboos appropriately with the female body. Those artists include Gustave Courbet, a realism artist of France in the 19th century and Jeff Koons, an American kitsch artist in the 20th century. The investigator would explain how he was influenced by their works and examine the position of his works in the art history. Those research efforts would allow him to define his work activities so far and find directions for his future works and development based on them.