“没有比丧失自己的民族文化身份更为痛苦的了!”波多黎各的一位学者和画家阿多诺·约华茨(Aldonoel Whitze)激动地对我诉说。他曾经是纽约市红极一时的画家,而现在只是纽约郊区的一所中学的美术教师。话题是从当代中国艺术说起的。笔者最近同林木先生以及美国学者戴乐丝莱思博士出版了一部介绍中国近代美术的书。特别提到了上世纪20年代初期中国艺术受到西方影响的过程。问题谈到了“当代中国美术的现象”,我特别介绍了中国最为著名的美术刊物《美术》中举办的对于《后现代艺术》的专题研讨。约华茨先生说:“记 “There is nothing more painful than losing one’s national identity.” Aldonoel Whitze, a Puerto Rican scholar and painter, told me excitedly. He used to be a smash hit painter in New York City, and is now an art teacher at a high school in the suburbs of New York. The topic is from the contemporary Chinese art. Recently, I published a book introducing modern Chinese art with Dr. Lin Mu and American scholar Dr. Dole Silas. Special mention was made of the process by which the Chinese art was influenced by the West in the early 1920s. The issue talked about “the phenomenon of contemporary Chinese art”. In particular, I specially introduced the seminar on “postmodern art” held in “Art”, the most famous art publication in China. Mr. Joats said: "Remember