想象:真正的艺术——论科林伍德艺术本质观

Imagination:the Real Art——Colling Wood's Idea of the Nature of Art

艺术想象作为艺术理论中最基本的范畴之一 ,历来是美学和艺术理论界的研究热点。从宏观的视角 ,科林伍德分析了在人类活动的大框架下想象活动的特殊性 ,主张艺术是人类特有的一种想象性的创造活动 ,是一种总体活动的想象性经验的情感表现 ,指出想象与真理、虚拟既有联系也具有明显区别。在微观方面 ,他将想象置于感觉、思维、意识、印象、观念及注意等诸多心理因素中进行考察 。

Art imagination, one of the most basic terms in the field of art theory, is always the focus of the aesthetics and the colony of art theory. From a macroscopic point of view, Colling Wood analyzes the particularity of imagination in human activities, and advocates that art is a creative activity through the imagination and emotional manifestation of imagination experiences of a kind overall activity. Moreover, he points out that truth and supposition are closely related though they are different. Mircroscopically, Wood observes and studies imagination in such psychological realms as feeling, thought, consciousness, impression, idea, and attention. Through this study, he has proved the important status and function of the imagination.