西方后现代视觉艺术中的政治倾向及叙事策略

Political Tendency and Narrative Strategy in Western Postmodern Visual Arts

随着后现代文化的滥觞,20世纪50年代以后在西方视觉艺术创作中频繁出现政治倾向的图像,其中出现的政治波普艺术,以及反映身份政治、后殖民主义的作品和图像都是艺术政治倾向的突出表现。后现代艺术创作有其政治的隐蔽性,这种隐蔽性指涉着后现代文化的价值观。后现代主义以现代主义为母体,解构一切文本、意义、表征和符号并赋予无限多层面的阐释可能性。后现代艺术家在探寻自身权利和地位的过程中试图运用解构、挪用、调侃、隐喻、反讽的叙事策略,使艺术作品具有隐蔽的政治性,以此达到艺术政治化的目的。

With the beginning of postmodern culture, since 1950 s images with political tendency frequently appear in Western visual arts, among which political pop art and the artworks and images reflecting identity politics and post-colonialism highlight the political tendency in artistic creation. Political significance is usually implicit in postmodern artistic creation. This subtle technique refers to the value of postmodern culture. Growing from modernism, postmodernism deconstructs all the texts, meanings, representations and symbols, and allows infinite multifaceted interpretations. In exploration of their rights and positions, postmodern artists attempt to utilize the narrative strategies of deconstruction, appropriation, ridicule, metaphor and irony to make their works political in an implicit way so as to achieve the politicization of art.