蔡仪同志是我国著名的马克思主义美学家、文艺理论家,是我国较早运用马克思主义立场、观点和方法来研究美学的有成就的学者。他在长期的学术研究工作中,依据马克思主义的基本原理,逐渐形成了自己的美学理论。他的理论是系统的、完整的、科学的、联系实际的。六十多年来,他不仅先后出版了颇有影响的《新艺术论》、《新美学》、《中国新文学史讲话》、《唯心主义美学批判集》、《论现实主义问题》、《探讨集》和《美学讲演集》等十多种专著,还主编了高校文科 Comrade Cai Yi is a famous Marxist esthetician and literary theorist in our country and an accomplished scholar who used a Marxist standpoint, viewpoint and method to study aesthetics earlier. In his long-term academic research work, he gradually developed his own aesthetic theory based on the basic principles of Marxism. His theory is systematic, complete, scientific, and practical. For more than sixty years, he has not only published quite influential “New Art Theory”, “New Aesthetics”, “History of New Chinese Literature”, “Critique of Idealist Aesthetics”, “On Realism,” “ Discussion Series ”and“ Aesthetics Lecture ”and other more than ten kinds of monographs, but also the editor of the liberal arts college