CHO JIHOON’S KOREAN AESTHETICS: THE CONCEPT OF ‘MEOT’

• Authors: Kim Soohyun
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Cho Jihoon’s aesthetics is based on the Confucian literati’s spirit, choesado, and on the Buddhist idea of non-duality. He presented the theory of meot, meaning taste originally, as a Korean-specific aesthetic category in his Study of Meot, where he synthesized the previously discussed theories of other scholars into twelve elements. Discussing the formal characteristics of works that have the aesthetic quality of meot, he took unrefinedness as basic and cited diversity, eurhythmy, and curvature as its sub-traits. Discussing the compositional power or method of expression that provokes meot, he took hyper-standard as basic, and the sub-traits include maturity, distortion, and playfulness. Furthermore, he discussed meot as an emotion or idea that Koreans live with, where the most basic one is otiosity (impracticality), and assimilation, moderation, and optimism are its sub-traits. Finally, he identified meot as the ultimate aesthetic state with pungryu, a lifestyle in harmony with Nature, which is originated from the ancient Silla period.

Keywords

EN

TASTE; MEOT; NON-DUALITY; PUNGRYU

• Publisher: Society for Aesthetics in Slovakia ad Institute of Aesthetics and Art Culture
• Journal: ESPES
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 40 - 49

Contributors

author

Kim Soohyun

• Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, South Korea

Identifiers

DOI

10.5281/zenodo.6639784