岑家梧艺术社会学研究对中国艺术史学的贡献

岑家梧运用社会学的观点和方法,以人类学、考古学、文献学等方面的资料对图腾艺术、史前艺术和中国古代美术进行研究并取得了相当成就,是运用科学的观点和方法对于艺术和艺术史展开研究的先行者。岑家梧在艺术史研究中的贡献主要在于他将社会学观点和方法应用于艺术和艺术史研究,将艺术当作一种社会现象来加以考察和研究。在艺术起源的问题上,他指出艺术产生的本质在于其特定的社会意义。在艺术的本质问题上,他反对艺术与社会人生无关的说法,认为应从社会生活来考察艺术的本质。他认为艺术社会学的基本内容主要包括五个方面:艺术的起源问题;艺术的本质问题;艺术的进化问题;艺术进化的阶段问题;艺术天才问题。他对于艺术和艺术史展开的研究,在中国艺术史研究现代化转型的进程中有着独特而深远的意义和价值。

Contributions of Cen Jiawu's study on art sociology to Chinese Art history research

Cen Jiawu applied materials from anthropology,archaeology and philology to the study of totemic art,prehistoric art and Chinese ancient fine arts by using sociological viewpoints and methods,and made great achievements.He was a pioneer in using scientific viewpoints and methods to make a study of art and art history.Cen Jiawu's contributions to art history research mainly are as follows: he applied sociological viewpoints and methods to art and art history research;he studied art by treating art as one kind of social phenomenon;as to the origins of art,he pointed out the appearance of art roots in its specific social significance;as to the essence of art,he opposed the view that art had nothing to do with the social life,and thought that the essence of art should be inspected from the social life.He held that the basic content of art sociology mainly includes five aspects: the origins of art;the essence of art;art evolution;the stages of art evolution and art talents.His study about art and art history has unique and profound significance and value in the process of modernization reform in Chinese art history research.