《画刊》杂志近期策划了一个专题讨论,主题是“中国人如何丢掉了审美?”这个话题看似简单,但其实很难谈得周全。一方面,从不同的讨论角度展开,广义的“审美”可以指人们的审美经验,而狭义的审美则与艺术创作与品评相关;另一方面,“审美”的问题关涉到许多方面,譬如文化传统、政治意识形态、文艺政策、艺术教育、经济建设等等,它们对“审美”都有直接或间接的影响。从文化生态的角度讲,“审美”的缺失与缺乏相应的文化土壤是有直接关系的。从某种 Pictorial magazine recently curated a symposium on the topic “How Chinese Abandoned Aestheticism?” It seems simple, but it’s actually very hard to talk about. On the one hand, from a different angle of discussion, “aesthetic” in a broad sense can refer to people’s aesthetic experience while narrower aesthetic relates to artistic creation and product criticism. On the other hand, the issue of “aesthetic” involves many For example, cultural traditions, political ideologies, literary and art policies, arts education and economic construction all have direct or indirect effects on “aesthetic ”. From the cultural and ecological point of view, the lack of “aesthetic” is directly related to the lack of corresponding cultural soil. From some sort