Daamhua: The New Spiritual in Art from Korea as the Re-Configuring Force of Contemporary Art: Art of Daam Spirit as the New Spiritual in Art from Kore

The Author holds a Doctorate in Philosophy, with special emphases on Philosophy of Art, Aesthetics, Political-Economy of Art and Culture, and the Philosophies of Language, Science and Technology. He’s written an extended essay on Michenlangeo Antonioni’s Decumentary on China and Maoism, discoursing on the Politics of Documentary Film, Cultural Revolution from Alain Badiou’s philosophical perspective and Orientalism. He’s simply the most influential art critic among the more academically inclined art world people of South Korea, his book (in Korean only for now) on Modern Art and Critique of the Globalized World Culture has been one of the most influential text in Korea for at least two decades. Mostly recently, he’s taught at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in the Department of English Linguistics. He’s also a Playwright two of whose plays are currently available from Amazon.com --Nostoi and Hiroshim Elegy.