艺术学理论:边界的焦虑与困境

Artistics: the Anxiety and Problem about the Boundary

自2011年以来,艺术学理论研究有了长足的进步。但纵观当前艺术学理论的研究和建构,更多关注的是艺术学的"边界"的厘定和划清。笔者认为,艺术学的长足发展不能仅建立在边界问题的探讨上。一方面,"艺术"作为艺术学之研究对象,本身就没有一个恒定不变的边界。而艺术学作为"艺术之学",艺术的边界决定了艺术学的边界,艺术的疆域决定了艺术学的视野。另一方面,艺术学和美学之间本不存在决然的对立关系,美与艺术、美学与艺术学,共生于一个复杂交错的学术生态体系之中。

Adjusted as a discipline, the theory of Art is necessary and useful for the construction of the whole subject of Art. But from the current research, we found that there is a sort of anxiety about the boundary of discipline. Too much attention and discussion of the boundary is no good for the considerable development of this subject. For one thing, the boundary of the Artistics is depends on the border of Art, which is not fixed; for another thing, there is no need and chance to totally separate Artistics from Aesthetics.