Between Civilization and Primitiveness:Reassessing Chinese Discourse in Western Visual Thought in the 1940s and 1950s
In the Western visual thought coordinates identified by opposing propositions such as"civilization/primitiveness""verticality/horizontality",and"block/line"in the 1940s and 1950s,Chinese art and conceptual systems,as a kind of cultural other,participated in the process of self reflection and renewal of Western modem culture,but their conceptual functions did not coincide with their internal primitive and unconscious discourse.Cross-cultural research perspectives have promoted a re-examination of the role played by Chinese discourses in this context:in the similar coincidence between action painting and ink painting,the direct influence of Chinese calligraphy on abstract lines,and the interplay between Zen and the unconsciousness in"the texts of the modern man",Chinese discourses with an intrinsic correlation between these fragmented visual and ideological materials do not go directly to the opposite side of the Western conception of modernity.Instead,it plays a role of reconciliation between civilization and primitiveness,between wisdom of life and formal will.
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