西方战争艺术个体叙事特征的演变

Individual Narratives in the Western War Arts

西方艺术传统中的战争叙事历来注重从个体的视角呈现战争,在个体叙事的发展历程中,个体从具有人文色彩的人逐渐走向了人的死亡,这一特征集中体现在第一、二次世界大战以及以越南战争、反恐怖战争为题材的艺术作品之中。对于个体的自由以及生命意识的极端强调,最终导致了人的观念的解体。在战争与人的互动之中,战争叙事既挖掘了人的性格、命运,也展现出战争的残酷。从人文之人到具有这一特点的人之死,也揭示出潜藏于战争背后的西方文化已经成为压抑甚至残害人生存与发展的桎梏的深刻本质。

War narratives in western arts have a tradition to present war from an individual＇s perspective.The individual starts as a human being but ends in death in the development of this individual narrative,which is shown in art works based on World War I,II,the Vietnam War and the anti-terror wars.The extreme emphases on the individual＇s freedom and life result in the dissolution of the concept of a human being.The relations between war and men on one hand disclose the destiny and characteristics of men,and on the other present the cruelty of war,exhibiting the nature of western culture which has repressed and even devastated the existence and development of men.