摘要
苏立文的《中国艺术史》、高居翰的《图说中国绘画史》和柯律格的《中国艺术》是20世纪后期英语世界的三部单卷本中国艺术通史类著作,它们均提供了对中国视觉艺术成果的整体界定、粗略印象和价值判断,是面向西方大众读者的、偏通俗的学术著作。这三位汉学家各有学术路数,但总体上都在西方艺术史背景下展开中国艺术通史的编撰,是温克尔曼以来艺术史学、特别是沃尔夫林的艺术风格史学传统在中国艺术史学领域的延续和拓展。这些通史写作难免囿于西方通史观局限而忽略中国通史观传统,出现误读和漏判,但在用西方艺术通史观置换中国艺术通史观后,也得出了有趣的跨文化对比结果,凸显了中国艺术在全球艺术史中的位置和特征。今天应当在古与今、中与西的对话和汇通中注意“吸收外来”他者,探讨中国自主艺术史学知识体系的构建。
Michael Sullivan’s The Arts of China,James Cahill’s Chinese Painting,and Craig Clunas’s Art in China are three single-volume general histories of Chinese art produced in the English-speaking world in the late 20th century.All three works offer comprehensive definitions,broad impressions,and value judgments on the achievements of Chinese visual arts.They are scholarly accessible books which aim at general Western readers.Although these three sinologists each have their own academic approaches,they generally compile their general histories of Chinese art within the framework of Western art historiography.Their works represent a continuation and expansion of the tradition of art historiography since Winckelmann,particularly Wölfflin’s tradition of stylistic art history,applied to the field of Chinese art history.While these general histories are inevitably constrained by the limitations of Western perspectives on the general history and often overlook traditional Chinese approaches to comprehensive historical writing—leading to certain misinterpretations and omissions—they also yield interesting cross-cultural comparative insights after substituting Western perspectives for Chinese ones.These insights highlight the position and characteristics of Chinese art within global art history.Today,it is essential to focus on“drawing on other cultures”in the dialogue and integration between the ancient and the modern,and between China and the West,so as to explore the construction of an autonomous knowledge system for Chinese art historiography.
出处
《中国文艺评论》
2025年第11期100-111,I0004,I0005,共14页
China Literature and Art Criticism
基金
2024年度北京语言大学博士科研启动基金项目“山水画中的游历活动与中国传统自然审美观:基于中外比较视角”(项目编号:24YBB14)的阶段性成果
关键词
中国自主艺术史学知识体系
艺术汉学
中国艺术通史
外来他者
autonomous knowledge system of Chinese art historiography
artistic Sinology
general history of Chinese art
the other
