Lee Ufan

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Lee Ufan

Korean artist, critic, philosopher, and poet

Also known as: Lee Woo-Hwan

Written by Tae-Hee Gang

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Korean:: Lee Woo-Hwan

Born:: June 24, 1936, Haman, South Gyeongsang province, Korea [now in South Korea] (age 88)

Notable Works:: “Dialogue”; “Phenomena and Perception B”

Movement / Style:: Mono-ha

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Lee Ufan (born June 24, 1936, Haman, South Gyeongsang province, Korea [now in South Korea]) is a Korean artist, critic, philosopher, and poet who was a prominent theorist and proponent of the Tokyo-based movement of young artists from the late 1960s through the early ’70s known as Mono-ha (Japanese: “School of Things”). Lee has built a body of artistic achievement across a wide range of mediums—painting, printmaking, sculpture, installation art, and art criticism—and had a major impact on the development of South Korean art in the 1970s. Lee was born and raised in a traditional hanok (Confucian-style home), and from ...(100 of 1043 words)

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