揭开史前艺术的奥秘——读《艺术人类学》

发布时间：2018-05-02 08:31

本文选题：艺术人类学 + 艺术现象　；参考：《中国图书评论》1993年06期

【摘要】：正现代的人类学家和艺术学家们,在谈论人类文化和艺术现象时,少有不追溯到遥远的史前艺术的。这种“遥远”,不仅指年代的久远,而且是指文明的陌生。现代的印第安人、布须曼人和波利尼西亚入带给今天的研究者们的,是与考古发现一样的远古时代的回声,它使人们陷入深深的困惑和好奇,不由自主地要去探讨史前艺术和文化的奥秘。但由于种种原因——过去是因资料的贫乏,现代则是因方法的陈旧——这一奥秘始终笼罩在迷雾之中。易中天先生的近著《艺术人类学》,在当今国内外众多的同类著作中独树一帜。其最显著的一个特点在于,作者首次表明,史前艺术的奥秘并不只是包藏在那早已不留痕迹地消失了的史前人类的一闪念中,也不只是封闭在那重见天日而沉默不语的石斧、陶罐和洞穴壁画中,而且还沉睡在我们自己心里,它就是我们自己的奥秘、一般“艺术”的奥秘,即“人”的奥秘。对史前艺术的陌生感,无非是对我们自己的潜伏着的、已被遗忘了的本质力量的陌生感而已。
[Abstract]:Modern anthropologists and artists rarely talk about human culture and art without dating back to distant prehistoric art. This kind of "faraway", not only refers to the long time, but also refers to the unfamiliar civilization. The modern Indians, Bushmen and Polynesians brought to today's researchers the echoes of ancient times, like archaeological discoveries, which plunged people into deep confusion and curiosity. To explore the mysteries of prehistoric art and culture involuntarily. But for a variety of reasons-the lack of information in the past and the old methods in modern times-the mystery has always been in the haze. Yi Zhongtian's recent work Anthropology of Art is unique among many similar works at home and abroad. One of its most striking features is that, for the first time, the author has shown that the mysteries of prehistoric art are not only hidden in a flash of prehistoric human thought that has long disappeared without trace, nor is it just enclosed in a stone axe, which is invisible and silent. In pots and cave murals, and still sleeping in our own hearts, it is our own mystery, the general "art" mystery, that is, "human" mystery. The strangeness of prehistoric art is nothing more than the strangeness of our own, forgotten essential power.

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