审美现代性视域下《恋爱中的女人》的艺术家形象

The Image of Artists in Women in Love from the Perspective of Aesthetic Modernity

审美现代性关注感性和欲望,对立于启蒙现代性,是对后者理性的反拨和纠偏。后者崇尚理性和工具性,是科学技术对自然和社会的全面征服。作为一个“处于现实主义与现代主义交叉点上的作家”,劳伦斯很多小说中都出现了艺术家的形象,表现出鲜明的审美现代性特征。劳伦斯在《恋爱中的女人》中塑造了三类艺术家的形象:孤傲骄纵的冒险艺术家戈珍、放荡不羁的伦敦艺术家们,以及冷血艺术家洛克。这三类艺术家分别对应于劳伦斯的艺术观、颓废的代言人和工业文明的倡导者,展呈作家对现代文明的批判和对生命哲学尊崇的审美现代性。

Aesthetic modernity focuses on sensibility and desire,and stands in opposition to enlightenment modernity.It is a rational reversal and correction of the latter.The latter advocates rationality and instrumentality,which is the comprehensive conquest of nature and society by science and technology.As a"writer at the intersection of realism and modernism",the images of artists appear in many of Lawrence′s novels,demonstrating distinct aesthetic modernity characteristics.In Women in Love,Lawrence portrays three kinds of artists:the lonely and arrogant adventurous artist Gudrun,the Bohemian London artists and the cold-blooded artist Loerke.These three types of artists contain deep connotations,corresponding to Lawrence′s art view,the spokesman of decadence and the advocate of industrial civilization respectively,reflecting the writer′s criticism of modern civilization and the aesthetic modernity of the respect for the philosophy of life.