艺术价值的人类学追问

The Cross-examining of Anthropology about Artistic Value

现代人类学提供的资料表明,人类史前时期并不存在哪怕一件纯粹的艺术品,艺术与劳动、巫术、宗教难分难舍地纠结在一起,形成一幅混沌如一的原始文化图景。在传统美学体系中,一般把艺术价值分为认识、伦理、审美三个方面。在文化人类学的视野里,这种陈旧的"三分"法很难触及艺术价值的本质,唯有深入史前文化中去追问艺术的存在意义和生命意义,才有可能从根源上求解艺术何为的千古之谜。

According to the data that modern anthropology provides,there exists no pure artwork in our prehistoric period. Art, labor, witchcraft and religious were interwined so tightly that it was very reluctant to separate them.such as an unitary original cultural scene.In traditional esthetics system, artistic value is generally divided into three aspects: epistemic value, ethic value and asthetic aesthetic value. However, in the visual field of the cultural anthropology, we can hardly touch the essence of artistic value by this kind of old ' three aspects' method. In some sense, only through cross-examining about the existence meaning and the life meaning of art in the prehistoric culture can we solve the historic riddle of what art can do from the source.