建设性重构:论迈耶·夏皮罗的艺术符号学

Constructive Reconstruction:On the Schapiro's Semiotics of Art

美国著名艺术史家迈耶·夏皮罗将艺术符号学理论应用于艺术史的实践研究,不仅丰富了艺术符号学理论,还从艺术符号内部的“建设性重构”出发,摒弃了艺术符号表层的“否定式解构”。夏皮罗不断地构建符号和意义之间的理据,坚持艺术符号的非任意性,为人们提供了不一样的艺术符号学思考路径——符号内部的“建设性重构”。此举不仅深化了艺术符号学的理论和实践,更有益于消弭符号学中关于符号任意性与非任意性的争论。

Meyer Schapiro,a famous American art historian,applies the theory of art semiotics to the practical study of art history,which not only enriches the theory of art semiotics,but also abandons the“negative deconstruction”of art symbol surface from the“constructive reconstruction”within art symbols.Schapiro continues to construct the motivation between signs and meanings,and insists on the non-arbitrariness of artistic signs,providing people with a different thinking path of artistic semiotics—the“constructive reconstruction”within signs.This move not only deepens the theory and practice of artistic semiotics,but also helps to eliminate debates on the arbitrariness and non-arbitrariness of symbols in semiotics.