Professor, History of Art
jkee@umich.eduOffice Information:
70D Tappan Hall
Center for Japanese Studies; CSEAS Faculty; Center for Southeast Asian Studies; CJS Faculty; CJS Faculty Associates; Nam Center for Korean Studies; NCKS Core Faculty; Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies; LRCCS Faculty; NCKS Faculty
Education/Degree:
PhD, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 2008JD, Harvard Law School, 2000
BA (Magna Cum Laude), History of Art, Yale University, 1997
Highlighted Work and Publications
The Connoisseurial Advantage: Putting Art Historical Practices to Work in Cases of Copyright Law
Joan Kee
Name of Periodical: Journal of Law, Culture and the Humanities
Volume Number: 8:2
Year of Publication: 2012
Page Numbers: 364-380
Contemporary Southeast Asian Art: The Right Kind of Trouble
Joan Kee
Name of Periodical: Third Text
Volume Number: 25:4
Year of Publication: 2011
Page Numbers: 371-381
The Curious Case of Contemporary Ink Painting
Joan Kee
Name of Periodical: Art Journal
Volume Number: 69:2
Year of Publication: 2010
Page Numbers: 88-113
Contemporary Korean Art: Tansaekhwa and the Urgency of Method
Joan Kee
Starting in the mid-1960s, a group of Korean artists began to push paint, soak canvas, drag pencils, rip paper, and otherwise manipulate the materials of painting in ways that prompted critics to describe their actions as “methods” rather than artworks. A crucial artistic movement of twentieth-century Korea, Tansaekhwa (monochromatic painting) also became one of its most famous and successful. Promoted in Seoul, Tokyo, and Paris, Tansaekhwa grew to be the international face of contemporary Korean art and a cornerstone of contemporary Asian art.
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