2005, Vol.22, No.

The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.81

pISSN : 1229-0246
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Gombrich’s term of ‘representation’ is dependent upon his notion of our perception and experience of objects in the outer world and is related to his term of ‘pictorial representation.’ The cognitive, biological, psychological and linguistic capacities of human inner factors make it possible for human beings to perceive and experience the outer objects, however human empirical perception and experience are conditioned by the outer factors of society, culture and history in a given context. These inner and outer factors consist of the foundation of human mental set. Based on the mental set, perception and experience occur as a result of trial and error correction which idea is adopted from Popper’s positive methodology of the growth of objective, scientific knowledge conjecture and refutation, and can be traced back to Darwinian theories of evolution. On the completion of the process, the meaning of the object is ascertain or even invented by the active critical human mind. * Lecturer of Hongik University These features of Gombrich’s perception and experience and the method of trial and error, or guessing and testing, which he adopted are applied both to an artist’s seeing and creation of images and to an observer’s seeing and experience of a work of art. Any changes in any one of the four factors is bound to bring about the changes in both the artist’s seeing the objects and creation of work of art and the observer’s seeing, interpretation and experience of works of art. This influences the questions, how artistic forms can be moulded and changed in history and how art can have a history.

The actual critical questions of representation are associated with the crisis of political power of the American logical positivists. Their philosophy became weakened in every social sphere and developed by themselves its critical post modern trends without notice. The reason is very simple; their demoniac and imprudent vision of the world. Their main purpose of researching the social facts is not to show a probable or real relationship of the method to these facts, but is to pursue their own profits and desires to the world society. This contradiction between the representational logic and their anti-representational, that is to say, auto generative behaviors comes down to develop some self-deceiving visions in everyday life and in scientific area. Informal opinions dominate naturally formal ones in the governmental and economical Administration, Universities etc. As a pretext, formal opinion pass softly by. * Adjunct Professor, Visual Communication Design Dep. of Hongik University The contemporary arts are the results of self-deceiving visions of the American logical positivists. The former accepted the reality-represented that the latter displaced as a fraud, whereas refused real realities to have to represent. This is the reason why comtemporary arts have their own auto generative rules exactly as is in the American logical positivists. To refuse and to fake the reality are a same attitude and divide equally same desire; to possess the world in their pocket. The crisis of representation is not a crisis of the world or of the Man but the one of the American logical positivists’ mind. And I give the same conclusion for the American contemporary arts as I described in a similar manner for this one. Some defiant acts are necessary today for the purpose of overcoming this auto generative logic of representation shared by American scientific attitude as well as their contemporary arts trends.