试论意境源流

On Origin and Development of Artistic Imagery

目前,学界对意境这一美学范畴的研究多从内涵、结构、心理基础、审美特征等方面展开,取得了丰硕成果。但是,对意境源流的研究还可进一步深入,对意境发展类别的研究也不多见。本文试从意境的源与流这两个层面切入,述源别类。在述源上,主要探析与意境理论生成关系密切的象、易象、意象、象外之象的递相演变;在意境流变的研究上,按照各个时代对意境的不同界定和人与世界接触的关系层次不同,加以梳理评析。

At present, most of the aesthetic research on artistic imagery proves fruitful from the perspectives of its connotation, construction, psychological basis, and aesthetic characteristics. Nevertheless, further studies on the source of artistic imagery are yet to be made, and more research on its development categories is in need. This thesis probes into the concept from two points of view - as far as the origin of artistic imagery is concerned, it discusses the evolution of image, sign, icon and the icon beyond an icon, which are closely related to the theory of artistic imagery; and as far as the development is concerned, it analyzes and comments on different definitions of artistic imagery in different historical periods, and on the different relations between man and the world.