“绿色”艺术研究与当地潜意识

“Green” Art Studies and the Local Subconscious

我们大多数人都意识到艺术源起的环境与它的外观特征存在着某种关联,但我们在解释这一现象时却很少突出环境的重要性。大多数涉及艺术的学科,不论是考古学、人类学还是艺术学,都认为艺术根植于某个社会而非自然环境,并常常从社会和历史特性而非地理特性的角度来诠释艺术品的独特品质。然而当地的自然地理环境对于艺术的产生以及经济、社会和历史情境有着不可忽略的影响。本文以崭新的视角提出"绿色"艺术研究方法,强调当地的地理环境对艺术品质形成的影响,并以荷兰的5个城市作为案例印证这一观点。

Most of us are aware that the place where an artwork originates has something to do with the distinctiveness of its appearance. But we rarely give the place itself prominence in our explanations of this phenomenon. Most academic disciplines which deal with art -whether archaeology, anthropology or art history -tend to see the object as embedded less in a place, more in a society. They thus explain the distinctive properties of objects in terms of specificities that are social and historical rather than geographical. However the local natural environment has exerted great influence on the formation of art, and the economic, social and historical context. This essay presents a fresh perspective of green art studies, emphasizing the importance of geographical environment to the local art properties while giving five cities as case studies thereof.