作为英国重要的当代艺术大奖,透纳奖自1984年设立以来,就不断地引起人们的强烈兴趣和激烈争论。20世纪以来,英国人普遍不信任陌生的东西而倾向于被时间所神圣化的艺术,这种长期的回避和不容忍反映出这个岛国的困境,那就是永远沉湎于对过去“日不落帝国”时代的回想,回避现今新 As a major British contemporary art award, the Turner Prize has been generating intense interest and heated debate since its establishment in 1984. Since the 20th century, the British generally disbelieved in strange things and tended to be sanctified by the art of time. Such long-term avoidance and intolerance reflected the predicament of this island nation, that is, "Recalling the times, to avoid the present new