《文学评论》一九八九年第五期发表王岳川的文章《当代美学核心:艺术本体论》,提出关于艺术的一切论争的深层,都在本体领域展开。作者认为,“所谓本体。指终极的存在,也就是表示事物内部根本属性、质的规定性和本源而与‘现象’相对。”而本体论,“就是对本体加以描述的理论”,“本体论是人对自身存 Literary Criticism, published in the fifth issue of 1989, published Wang Yuechuan’s article The Core of Contemporary Aesthetics: The Ontology of Art, and proposed that all the deep debate about art should start in ontology. The author believes that "the so-called ontology refers to the ultimate existence, which means that the fundamental nature of things, the nature of the provisions and the origin and the ’phenomenon.’ And the ontology, ’is to describe the body of the theory’, ’ontology On the people on their own deposit