- Overview
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- Book Intro
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Get ready to be consoled by stories extracted from artworks with five themes of life, death, art, love, and healing. Just like the title, this book starts from the curiosity of why we need art in our lives. Due to the "COVID-19," online meetups have become more activated than offline gatherings, and while art museums are on hiatus, we are now able to browse around online museums. This shift in environment has awakened us to the fact that focusing on ourselves whom we're looking at is more important than the eyes of others looking at us. In these times, art can play a huge role in restoring humanity by approaching people again and embracing and sympathizing with the wounded souls.
- About the Author
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Shim Sangyong
The author graduated from the Department of Painting in College of Fine Arts, Seoul National University and also from the same university’s graduate school, then traveled abroad to France in 1989, receiving his master’s degree and doctor’s degree (D.E.A.) in formative arts at the University of Paris VIII and his doctor’s degree in art history at the University of Paris I. His books include The Birth of market Art, The Art of Speed, Genius is Dead, Desire and Loss of Contemporary Art, An Art Museum Without Paintings-Exploration and Prospect of the Art Museum in Public, History of Humanity as Seen by Masterpieces, Art Speaks of Wounds. The author is currently employed as a professor in the Department of Sculpture at Seoul National University.
