Park Suk-won (박석원): a documentary date difference and the limit of a third date
Two institutional descriptions support a qualified work-description comparison and a production-year difference. The correct historical year and cause remain open. A separately numbered 1973 work is not established as the same individual installation.
What does the comparison of the 1972 and 1974 assignments establish, and why does the separately numbered 1973 work not supply a third date for the same installation?
Documents and source locators
- Relational Archival Investigation: Identity, Chronology, and Historical Judgment in Korean Experimental Art
- Documentary Evidence and Source Comparisons: Supplement 1 to Relational Archival Investigation
- MMCA 2016 Annual Report — acquisition entry 76
- MMCA collection record 07912 / online record 7925 — 적-응력
- DA-Arts artist record 1172 — Park Suk won / 박석원
Documentary finding
The cited annual-report row assigns 1974, while the collection production-year field assigns 1972 and separately records the wood’s 2016 remaking.
supported
- MMCA 2016 Annual Report — acquisition entry 76
- MMCA collection record 07912 / online record 7925 — 적-응력
This establishes a difference between the published assignments, not which year is historically correct.
A source identifying a different report row, a changed collection state, or a dated explanation could require revision.
Dorian Vale’s published comparison; source-field check performed for this public dossier. The published paper and supplement are not independent witnesses.
Research claim
Artist, Korean title, cloth-and-wood arrangement and the closely corresponding dimensions support a comparison at the level of the described work.
qualified
- MMCA 2016 Annual Report — acquisition entry 76
- MMCA collection record 07912 / online record 7925 — 적-응력
No shared management number is printed in both witnesses; the fourth wood measurement differs by 0.1 cm, and remaking limits claims of unchanged material continuity.
Accession documentation or photographs demonstrating separately identified realizations could alter the scope of the match.
Dorian Vale’s published comparison; source-field check performed for this public dossier. The published paper and supplement are not independent witnesses.
Research claim
The separately numbered 1973 wooden work is not established as the same individual installation and does not presently supply it with a third production year.
supported
- MMCA collection record 07912 / online record 7925 — 적-응력
- DA-Arts artist record 1172 — Park Suk won / 박석원
This withholds a proposed individual-work match; it does not deny a relation within the artist’s practice or prove that no future linkage exists.
An explicit documentary link between the 1973 work and MMCA 07912 could justify a more precise relationship.
Dorian Vale’s published comparison; source-field check performed for this public dossier. The published paper and supplement are not independent witnesses.
Explanation
The correct historical production year and the reason for the differing assignments remain unresolved.
open
- MMCA 2016 Annual Report — acquisition entry 76
- MMCA collection record 07912 / online record 7925 — 적-응력
Different conventions, correction or different information remain possibilities. Neither document supplies a dated administrative history.
A dated acquisition worksheet, contemporary work record or explicit account linking the assignments could discriminate among the explanations.
Dorian Vale’s published comparison; source-field check performed for this public dossier. The published paper and supplement are not independent witnesses.
Source records
- MMCA 2016 Annual Report — acquisition entry 76
- MMCA collection record 07912 / online record 7925 — 적-응력
- DA-Arts artist record 1172 — Park Suk won / 박석원
Limits of the comparison
Images are authentic pages of the author’s published research, not original institutional manuscripts. The main paper and supplement belong to one research programme and are not independent corroborating witnesses. Original-source records are linked separately. No physical examination, unseen administrative history or new translation is claimed.