公共艺术与公共性

The Publicity of Public Art

从艺术社会史的角度来看 ,艺术作品是在一种社会关系中产生出来的。艺术生产具有两个基本的意义 ,生产过程和作品呈现 ,而呈现是由生产过程决定的。艺术活动是不断创造并维持与其他人的关系的一个过程 ,艺术在这些关系中生产自身。这些关系是社会相互作用的基础 ,即社会的经济基础。它们构成了物质生活的内容 ,并且在一定条件下制约着精神生活 ,包括艺术作品的生产。存在是社会性的 ,而意识是社会自身生产的结果。在公共艺术的生产中 ,社会的作用远远超过艺术家的个人活动 ,在资本主义经济的条件下 ,更呈现为一种经济关系。

From the point of view of the social history of art, the artwork is a product of a kind of social relation. The artistic production has two basic implications: the process of production and the presentation of works. An artistic presentation is determined by a process that continuously creates and maintains the relations with others, and in turn, art produces itself in these relations, the foundations of social interactions, namely, the social economic foundations. They make up the contents of physical life, and constrain spiritual life under certain conditions, including the production of artwork. Being is something social, but consciousness the result of the production of society itself. In producing public art, the society plays an excessive role over the artist’s personal activity, and under the condition of capitalist economy, this represents itself as a kind of economic relationship.