再论艺术的生理基础:从美感与符号能力的发展出发

Revisiting the Biological Foundations of Art:From the Relation between Sense of Beauty and Semiotic Ability

“动物美感”是达尔文提出的重要观点,他在其中详尽地论证了“美者必健”的原则,指出了动物的美感产生是基于实用基础的。然而,他的研究也同样表明,个体化、差异化的美感及愉悦感,在动物美感的发展中尤为重要。当代生物符号学家的研究证明了这一观点,并揭示了动物美感和其符号能力发展的关联所在。这两者的渐进发展,使得艺术的生理基础得以形成。

Darwin’s argument that "animals have a sense of beauty" is based on the doctrine that "vigour and beauty generally coincide",which means that animals’ sense of beauty arises from the beneficial factors of reproduction and survival. Yet, Darwin also points out that animals’ sense of beauty is individualised and differentiated, as biosemioticians have proved in their relation of the sense of beauty and semiotic ability.The biological foundations of art lie in the development of and coordination between these two factors.