The Pioneer of Contemporary Chinese Aesthetic Theory of Value:Review of Huang Yaomian's Viewpoint of"Beauty Being the Evaluation"in the Perspective of Academic History
The Pioneer of Contemporary Chinese Aesthetic Theory of Value:Review of Huang Yaomian's Viewpoint of"Beauty Being the Evaluation"in the Perspective of Academic History
As an active participant and promoter of the"Great Discussion on Aesthetics"in the 1950s and 1960s,Huang Yaomian put forward the idea that"beauty is a person's aesthetic evaluation of objective things"in the critical dialogues and disputes on aesthetic issues with Zhu Guangqian,Cai Yi,and others.His viewpoint of"beauty being the evaluation"places the discussion of aesthetic issues on the standpoint and methodology of materialism,with the basic assertion that"beauty is a phenomenon of human social life"as the theoretical and logical premises,proposing and expounding three major theoretical propositions:beauty exists with the existence of human beings,"the roots of aesthetic phenomena should first be found in life and practice",and"beauty is a person's subjective grasp of the objective world,"which under the epistemological aesthetic paradigm dominating at that time herald the study of aesthetic theory of value,and have the significance of theoretical reference and revelation to the academic innovation of contemporary aesthetic studies and the construction of China's autonomous knowledge system.
关键词
黄药眠/中国当代美学/价值论美学/生活实践/美是评价
Key words
Huang Yaomian/contemporary Chinese aesthetics/aesthetic theory of value/life practice/Beauty being the evaluation