现代绘画中“平面性”的理论探讨:从形式主义到文化论述

The theoretical discussion of "Flatness" in modern painting: From formalism to cultural discourse

现代主义绘画关于"平面性"(surface; flatness)的辩证一直是绘画美学的核心问题,在当代的发展中,透过理论家的思想介入,扩展了现代形式主义为基础的平面定义,重新将平面性的议题带入文化、社会与政治行动的视域之中,彰显了平面性所具备的跨时间维度。本文即是站在这个考量之下,重新从现代主义的绘画平面性,特别是格林伯格(Clement Greenberg,1909-1994)的形式主义(Formalism)以后的批判理论发展,进行理论与观念的深入梳理,延伸至当代的朗西埃和约瑟里特文化政治分析,指出平面性定义其实是一个流变的现象,不只是艺术形式问题,同时更是文化实践与建构的议题。期盼能够使平面性的问题,得到新的认识论基础,使我们能够取得当代绘画理论讨论的方向和趋势。

The"surface"of Modernist paintings has always been the core issue of painting aesthetics.In the development of contemporary,through the theorists intervention,expanded the modern formalism flatness into the vision of cultural,social and political action.This paper,especially from the Formalism of Clement Greenberg to political analysis of Jacques Rancière and David Joselit,interprets and points out that the theory of flatness is not only the art form,but also the issues of the practice and culture construction.It is hoped that the issue of flatness problems can be brought to a newepistemology of Aesthetics,so that we can rethink the direction and trend of contemporary painting theory discussion.