后古典时代“审美”困境十图解

Ten Illustrations to Interpret the “Aesthetic”Dilemma during the Neoclassical Period

"后古典主义"是向中国现代美学历史进程延滞并占据主导地位的古典主义,"后古典时代"既涵盖王国维美学之后亦即20世纪初至今的中国美学百余年的历史,又特指"文革"结束至今被称为"新时期"的三十多年的发展过程。在后一个时期中,"审美"问题占据中心地位,而中国当代美学对这个问题的理解和阐述,就总体而言仍深陷古典主义之中;在纯审美和纯功利之间做周期性摆动和转换,这已成为中国当代美学的基本路数和常规现象。正视并深入研究其形成的条件和原因,或许可以找到走出困境进而推动中国美学现代进程的门径。

“Neoclassical”is the classical which delays and dominates the historical process of modern aes-thetics in China.The “neoclassical age”covers a period of over-100 -year history from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day after the aesthetics of Wang Guowei.That apart,it also refers to the special peri-od from the end of the“Cultural Revolution”to the present,called“New Era”of thirty years of development.In the latter period,the “aesthetic”issues take up a central position,while the understanding and interpretation of this issue by contemporary Chinese aesthetics,on the whole,is still mired among classicism.It has been the basic line and regular phenomena of contemporary Chinese aesthetics to swing and converse periodically between pure aesthetics and pure utilitarian.Confronting and conducting a substantial study of the conditions and causa-tive factors for its formation may be able to find a way to get out of this predicament and promote the progress of modern Chinese aesthetics.