不是艺术的艺术品——解读杜尚的难题

Artwork of Non-art——Reading Duchamp's Dilemma

"不是艺术的艺术品"是一种反艺术。它凸显了艺术品的物性和剧场性,质疑并否定了作为专有名词的现代艺术观念,如艺术的真理性、自主性、在场性和各门类艺术的纯粹性。就艺术与艺术品的关系来说,某物之所以能转化成艺术品,是因为它在剥离可见的审美属性时,又以阐释的方式建构了一种不可见的艺术属性。这种艺术属性或者源于结构化的艺术语境,或者源于艺术界代理人的权威,或者源于艺术界共同体的建构。作为动态的艺术事件,杜尚的艺术难题既揭示、否定了18世纪以来的现代艺术体系,也在审美现代性的视野中逐渐确立了新的艺术话语模式。

An artwork of non-art is anti-art. It prominently exhibits the objecthood and theatricality of the artwork, and challenges a range of conceptions of modern art, such as truth of art, autonomy of art, presentness of art, purity of medium, ect. As for the relationship between art and artwork, it is because of its being deprived of visibly aesthetic character while constituting an invisibly artistic attribute in its interpretation that something can be transformed into an artwork. The artistic attribute may be emanated from the structured context of art, or the authority of art agent from art world, or the construction of art community. As a dynamic art event, Duchamp’s dilemma both reveals and rejects the formation of modern art system since the 18th century, and establishes a new mode of art discourses under aesthetic modernity.