常任侠与中国敦煌美术史研究

Chang Renxia and His Research on Dunhuang Art History in China

常任侠的敦煌美术史研究体现为敦煌佛教美术研究和中印佛教美术交流与影响研究。他立足于唯物史观和美术史的宏阔视野,采用艺术考古研究方法,对汉唐时代石刻壁画艺术进行考察研究,揭示其发展演变的重要特征和规律,肯定了印度佛教文化对汉唐石刻壁画艺术的影响,及其与中国本土文化的融合而具有的中国民族风格。他的相关研究,作为珍贵的文献资料,丰富了中国古代敦煌美术史研究的资料库,为中国古代美术史研究和学科建构提供重要参考。

Chang Renxia's research on Dunhuang art history is embodied in Dunhuang buddhist art research and buddhist art exchange and influence research.Based on the broad vision of the historical materialism and the history of fine arts,he used the method of art archaeology to study the art of stone carvings and frescoes from Han to Tang dynasty,and revealed the important characteristics and laws of its development and evolution,it affirms the influence of Indian buddhism culture on the art of stone carvings and frescoes and Chinese national style formed with the fusion of Chinese native culture.As a precious document,his research enriches the database of the research on Ancient Dunhuang fine arts history,and provides an important reference for the research and discipline construction of the history of fine arts in ancient China.