如何理解现代艺术——艺术史叙事与西方文明的多样性

How to Understand Modern Art——Art History Narrative and the Diversity of Western Civilization

如何评价现代艺术是一个巨大的学术难题,不能简单下判断说它好或者不好。对现代艺术的理解需要开启现代艺术不同的艺术史叙事空间。理解现代艺术有五种艺术史叙事范式,即社会史、艺术史、技术史、精神史、形象史。社会史侧重的是现代艺术在资本主义意识形态渗透下如何进行反渗透,艺术史侧重的是现代艺术对主流价值与学院传统的叛逆,技术史侧重的是现代艺术从艺术精神向技术精神的转变,精神史侧重的是现代艺术的精神困境及其突破,形象史侧重的是现代艺术拆解形象范式及其再整体化的可能性。多样的艺术史叙事范式开启了对现代艺术的多样性理解,而对现代艺术的多样性理解正是对西方文明本身多样性的理解。

It is a huge academic problem to evaluate Modern art, and not make a simple judgment that it is good or bad, so needs to open the space of art history narrative of Modern art. There are five paradigms of art history narrative to understand Modern art： social history, art history, technology history,spirit history, and image history. Social history focus on Modern art reversing osmosis to capitalist ideology, art history focus on that modern art is rebellious to mainstream values and institute tradition, technology history focus on the transformation of Modern art from the art spirit to the technical spirit, spiritual history focus on the spirit plight of Modern art and its breakthrough, image history focus on the dismantling of Modern art to the image paradigm and the possibility of the re-integration. The variety of paradigms of art history narrative opens the understanding of the diversity of Modern art, and the understanding of the diversity of Modern art is the understanding of the diversity of western civilization.