由于苏珊·朗格对艺术幻象性的强调,其美学往往被视为艺术自律论。作为20世纪的美学思想,朗格的艺术论有其特殊的语境。在反思语境中,朗格没有把审美看成艺术与人类社会唯一合法的关系。从人类视角出发,朗格将艺术界定为表现人类情感的符号形式,既承认艺术的独立自足性、超越现实的非功利性,又肯定艺术与现实的依存性以及艺术的社会责任。朗格将艺术看成一个具有持续性、统一性和完整性的活动过程,辩证吸收艺术自律论与艺术他律论的合理成分,表现出对二者的超越。 Due to Susan Lange’s emphasis on the illusion of art, his aesthetics is often regarded as a theory of artistic autonomy. As a 20th century aesthetic, Lange’s theory of art has its own special context. In the reflective context, Lange did not regard aesthetics as the only legal relationship between art and human society. From a human perspective, Lange defines art as a symbolic manifestation of human emotions, recognizing the independence of art, transcending the non-utilitarianism of reality, and affirming the dependence of art and reality and the social responsibility of art. Lange sees art as a process of activities of continuity, unity and completeness, dialectically absorbing the rational components of art self-discipline and art heights, and showing the transcendence of the two.