扩大人类学的艺术研究视野——以中国当代美术教育为例

Expanding the Horizons of Art Research in Anthropology:A Reflection Based on Chinese Contemporary Fine Art Education

美术作为艺术的一个门类,在当代艺术实践中成果累累。中国当代美术教育内容、模式、理念等形成的历史,呈现了当代美术教育的文化背景。通过近年来对学院油画家的田野调查,人类学家发现人类学跨学科介入美术教育研究的重要性,以及当代美术教育中整体性理解的要点。第一,有助于发现和阐释中国当代艺术文化的生成过程;第二,关注调查对象所处的教育与文化环境之缺失,以及烘托艺术群体的改革呼声;第三,关注学院美术教学的观念与传承体系的涵化,这是对中国更广泛人群的艺术实践、艺术观念动态过程的探索。

As a category of arts, fine art has borne much fruit in contemporary art practice. The history of contemporary Chinese fine art education presents the cultural background to the art itself in terms of contents,modes and ideas. Through field study of oil painters in recent years,anthropologists have discovered the importance of interdisciplinary intervention in art education research and the key points of holistic understanding in contemporary fine art education. First,the intervention helps reveal and interpret the formation of contemporary Chinese art culture;second,it can draw attention to informants’ lack of educational and cultural environments and add its voice to the call for reform in the art community;third,it can promote the acculturation of the concepts and inheritance system in college art teaching, which is an exploration of the dynamic process of the art practice and concepts of a wider population in China.