@article{ART003224587},
author={Kyong-Deock Kang},
title={A Reflection on Representation (or Post-realism) after Postmodernism: Focusing on Derrida’s Aesthetics of the Object},
journal={The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art},
issn={1229-0246},
year={2025},
volume={75},
pages={6}
TY - JOUR
AU - Kyong-Deock Kang
TI - A Reflection on Representation (or Post-realism) after Postmodernism: Focusing on Derrida’s Aesthetics of the Object
JO - The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art
PY - 2025
VL - 75
IS - null
PB - 한국미학예술학회
SP - 6
EP -
SN - 1229-0246
AB - One of the central tendencies in 20th-century (Modernist) painting was the “struggle of abstraction against representation,” a trend that Postmodernism deepened by questioning or rejecting representation itself. However, is this an adequate understanding of representation? In what sense might representation not have disappeared but require a different mode of understanding? This paper addresses these questions through the lens of Jacques Derrida and Jacques Rancière and examines the relationships between representation, resemblance, and the text-object dynamic. While Derrida famously declared that “there is nothing outside the text,” emphasizing the materiality of the text in meaning-production, he did not entirely negate the relationship between text and object. In Signéponge, Derrida restores the concept of the “thing,” approaching the text from the perspective of the object. This paper critically engages with Derrida’s work to rethink the relationship between Modernism, Postmodernism, and Realism, and to redefine the problems of meaning-production and representation. It will also explore Rancière’s concept of “archi-resemblance,” which theorizes the relationship between text and object without reducing text to a mere reflection of reality. Rancière’s distinction between representation and its regime, as well as his separation of an object’s referentiality from its meaning, offers theoretical tools to clarify ambiguities left unresolved in Derrida’s work.
KW - mimesis;modernism;poetry of Francis Ponge;postmodernism;realism;representation;supplement;things/objects
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Kyong-Deock Kang. (2025). A Reflection on Representation (or Post-realism) after Postmodernism: Focusing on Derrida’s Aesthetics of the Object. The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art, 75, 6.
Kyong-Deock Kang. 2025, "A Reflection on Representation (or Post-realism) after Postmodernism: Focusing on Derrida’s Aesthetics of the Object", The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art, vol.75, 6.
Kyong-Deock Kang "A Reflection on Representation (or Post-realism) after Postmodernism: Focusing on Derrida’s Aesthetics of the Object" The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art 75 6 (2025) : 6.
Kyong-Deock Kang. A Reflection on Representation (or Post-realism) after Postmodernism: Focusing on Derrida’s Aesthetics of the Object. 2025; 75 6.
Kyong-Deock Kang. "A Reflection on Representation (or Post-realism) after Postmodernism: Focusing on Derrida’s Aesthetics of the Object" The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art 75(2025) : 6.
Kyong-Deock Kang. A Reflection on Representation (or Post-realism) after Postmodernism: Focusing on Derrida’s Aesthetics of the Object. The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art, 75, 6.
Kyong-Deock Kang. A Reflection on Representation (or Post-realism) after Postmodernism: Focusing on Derrida’s Aesthetics of the Object. The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art. 2025; 75 6.
Kyong-Deock Kang. A Reflection on Representation (or Post-realism) after Postmodernism: Focusing on Derrida’s Aesthetics of the Object. 2025; 75 6.
Kyong-Deock Kang. "A Reflection on Representation (or Post-realism) after Postmodernism: Focusing on Derrida’s Aesthetics of the Object" The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art 75(2025) : 6.
