人性的退行:疼痛与西方现代绘画——以伊莱恩·斯卡利思想为中心的分析

Humanity Degeneration:Pain and Western Modern Painting--A Study on Elaine Scarry s Thoughts

美国当代著名学者伊莱恩·斯卡利的疼痛思想对理解现代主体所面临的虚无、人性退行困境具有很强的解释效应。根据斯卡利讨论疼痛的思想,现代绘画有三种突出表现的疼痛类型:酷刑、物化与复仇。这三种疼痛对应的乃是剥夺主体感知力、异化身体及自我认知、文明建构的反讽性等基础问题。现代画家痴迷于对疼痛进行展布、描摹可视作对人性退行进行的绝望反抗的精神表征。卡洛、培根、蒙克等分别是展布上述三种疼痛类型有代表性的画家,根据他们的艺术创作,人们可以探究斯卡利疼痛思想于人性退行的洞见、阐释效应及其局限。

The pain view of Elaine Scarry,a famous contemporary American scholar,can effectively explain the nihility and the dilemma of humanity degeneration faced by modern subject.In Scarry s theory of pain,there are three types of pain in modern painting:torture,materialization and revenge,corresponding to the basic problems of denying subject perception,dissimilating the body and self-cognition,and the irony of civilization construction.The modern painter s obsession with the exhibition and description of pain can be regarded as the spiritual manifestation of the desperate revolt against humanity degeneration.We take Carlo,Bacon and Monk as examples to explore the insight,interpretation effect and limitation of Scarry s pain thought in humanity degeneration.