鲁迅与《近代美术史潮论》——1920年代对西方艺术史论的一次重要译介

Lu Xun and A Survey of Modern Art History: An Important Translation and Introduction of Western Art History in the 1920s

关于鲁迅美术活动的研究多集中于20世纪30年代的新兴木刻运动和左翼美术运动,但实际在此之前鲁迅与西方艺术结缘已久,并在20年代后期已经开始进行西方艺术推介。本文从鲁迅1928年翻译的日本美术史家板垣鷹穗所著美术理论著作《近代美术史潮论》出发,结合20世纪20年代中国对西方艺术理论接受情况,剖析这本译著的内容、所包含的艺术理论、传播途径以及鲁迅的译介过程,配合对鲁迅书信、日记和藏书的梳理分析,研究当时鲁迅对西方艺术的态度以及对西方艺术的推介观。

Studies on the art activities of Lu Xun primarily focus on the New Woodcut Movement and the Leftist Art Movement of the 1930 s in China, but in fact, Lu Xun had been involved in Western art for some time before that, and had begun to introduce Western art to China in the late 1920 s. This paper studies the translated version of the Japanese book, A Survey of Modern Art History, which was written by Itagaki Takao, a Japanese art historian, and translated into Chinese by Lu Xun in 1928. In view of the acceptance of Western art theories by Chinese artists and intellectuals in the 1920 s, the paper examines the content of this translated book, the art theories it includes, its spread route, and its translation and introduction process by Lu Xun. With the analysis of Lu Xun’s letters, diaries and collection of books, the paper also studies Lu Xun’s attitude towards Western art and his perspective on the introduction of Western art at that time.