现代主义理论视野下的雕塑范例——安东尼·卡罗与英国新雕塑

Sculptural Paradigm in the Perspective of Modernist Theory: Anthony Caro and the British New Sculpture

安东尼·卡罗(Anthony Caro)是英国20世纪最有成就的雕塑家之一。当现代主义理论将抽象绘画推向一个高峰之时,卡罗的雕塑也在抽象形态、媒介性与空间关系等多方面对英国新雕塑起到了承前启后的作用。卡罗的抽象雕塑在融合了现代主义理论与极简主义雕塑表征的同时,又拓展出了独特的一脉。其中最重要的特点之一,就是其将雕塑作为“绘画”的实践。卡罗对于英国雕塑的影响一直持续到1960年至今的英国新生代雕塑家。本文将选取安东尼·卡罗创作的两个阶段,论述抽象雕塑何以在艺术家的创作中,越来越接近现代主义艺术的品质,并分析卡罗的雕塑创作对英国新雕塑的深刻影响。

Anthony Caro is one of the most accomplished sculptors of the UK in the 20th century. When modernism pushed abstract painting to a peak, Caro’s sculpture also played a role in the development of new sculptures in the UK in terms of abstract form, medium and spatial relationships. Besides the combination of features of modernism theory and minimalism sculpture, Caro develops his own way of creation, one of them being the making of sculpture as a “drawing” practice. Caro’s impact on the British new sculpture generation has lasts from the 1960s to the present. This paper would select two phases of Anthony Caro’s creation to discuss how his abstract sculpture could be more and more approaching to the essence of modernist art, therefore to analyze the profound influence of Caro’s sculpture on the new British sculpture.