Hong Song-dam
Hong Song-Dam (born 1955) is a South Korean artist who works with woodcuts.[1] He was born on the island of Hauido and raised in Gwangju,[2] where he took part in the 1980 uprising against Chun Doo-hwan's military dictatorship.[2] After the uprising he became politically active, and in July 1989 was arrested for allegedly breaking the National Security Act (he had sent slides of a mural he had created, along with around 200 other South Korean artists, to North Korea).[3] Amnesty International adopted him as a prisoner of conscience and he was released from prison in the early 1990s.[3] He is an acclaimed member of the Minjung art movement, and in 1996 was commissioned by the Government of South Korea to create a 42-metre mural for Chonnam National University.[4] He married in 2005 and settled in Ansan.[3]
References
Sources
- ↑ "Hong Song Dam (1955 - )". Printsandprintmaking.gov.au. Retrieved 2010-10-06.
- 1 2 (Küster 2009, p. 49)
- 1 2 3 (Küster 2009, p. 50)
- ↑ "Images of Dissent: Transformations in Korean Minjung Art". Koreaweb.ws. Retrieved 2010-10-06.
Bibliography
- Küster, Volker, ed. (1 July 2009). Visual Arts and Religion. LIT Verlag Münster. ISBN 978-3-8258-0708-5. Retrieved 18 October 2010.