@article{ART003182085},
author={Jisuk Hong},
title={Discourses on the ‘Image-Figure’ of Korean Painting Since the 1970’s},
journal={The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art},
issn={1229-0246},
year={2025},
volume={74},
pages={6-28}
TY - JOUR
AU - Jisuk Hong
TI - Discourses on the ‘Image-Figure’ of Korean Painting Since the 1970’s
JO - The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art
PY - 2025
VL - 74
IS - null
PB - 한국미학예술학회
SP - 6
EP - 28
SN - 1229-0246
AB - Since the 1970’s, the discourse on the ‘image-figure’ of Korean painting has developed into two branches. One is the branch that did not completely accept the image-figure. Painters and art critics who valued abstraction and flatness have denied the image-figure in painting, but were also worried that this would result in a literal flatness, so they had a dual attitude of denying the image-figure and secretly affirming it. The other is the branch that positively accepted the image-figure. Painters and art critics belonging to this branch actively accepted the image-figure, but the one they brought back into painting was a kind of “return of the repression,” which was very different from the familiar ‘image-figure’. Such figures were often referred to as ‘neo-figurative’. In other words, it had to be an image-figure, but not an image-figure. It would not be wrong to say that the former is abstract but not abstract, and the latter is an image-figure, but not image-figure. In the 1990’s, when the trend of anti-modern or post-modern prevailed, these two branches were hybridized, which many critics and painters of that time called ‘post-modern painting’.
KW - Abstract Painting;Flatness;Figure;Illusion;Image;Modern Painting of Korea;Neo-Figurative Painting;Post-Modern Painting;Signs
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Jisuk Hong. (2025). Discourses on the ‘Image-Figure’ of Korean Painting Since the 1970’s. The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art, 74, 6-28.
Jisuk Hong. 2025, "Discourses on the ‘Image-Figure’ of Korean Painting Since the 1970’s", The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art, vol.74, pp.6-28.
Jisuk Hong "Discourses on the ‘Image-Figure’ of Korean Painting Since the 1970’s" The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art 74 pp.6-28 (2025) : 6.
Jisuk Hong. Discourses on the ‘Image-Figure’ of Korean Painting Since the 1970’s. 2025; 74 6-28.
Jisuk Hong. "Discourses on the ‘Image-Figure’ of Korean Painting Since the 1970’s" The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art 74(2025) : 6-28.
Jisuk Hong. Discourses on the ‘Image-Figure’ of Korean Painting Since the 1970’s. The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art, 74, 6-28.
Jisuk Hong. Discourses on the ‘Image-Figure’ of Korean Painting Since the 1970’s. The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art. 2025; 74 6-28.
Jisuk Hong. Discourses on the ‘Image-Figure’ of Korean Painting Since the 1970’s. 2025; 74 6-28.
Jisuk Hong. "Discourses on the ‘Image-Figure’ of Korean Painting Since the 1970’s" The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art 74(2025) : 6-28.
