20世纪中国艺术起源学论

On the Scientific Study of the Origin of Chinese Arts in the 20^(th) Century

艺术起源研究在中国伴随着20世纪初“西学东渐”及社会学理论和研究手段的引入而出现。这一阶段,蔡元培等中国学者最先用考古学和人类学的资料开中国艺术起源研究之新风。自50至70年代,前苏联“艺术是反映现实的形式”的观点给予中国艺术起源学研究以决定性影响。惟有中国台湾刘其伟从本体意义上探讨原始艺术及起源。自80年代至今,中国对艺术起源的研究上升到从发生学意义上进行深层的研究,并进行多角度、多方法的交叉学科的综合研究及延伸意义研究。

The study of the origin of arts appeared along with “the introduction of Western learning to the East” and the introduction of the theory and method of sociology early 20 th Century. During the period, Cai Yuanpeiand other Chinese scholars launched a new trend of studying the origin of Chinese arts, firstly adopting the materials of archeology and anthropology. From the 1950s and the 1970s, the viewpoint of the former Soviet Union that “art is a form reflecting reality” had a crucial influence on the study of the origin of Chinese arts. Liu Qiwei, from Chinese Taiwan, was an only person who discussed primitive arts and the origin from a noumenal sense. Since the 1980s China's researchesof the origin of arts haverisen to deep-seated researchesfrom a geneticsense. And comprehensive interdisciplinaryresearches from many bearings and many ways as well as researches of an extended sense have been carried on in China.