论现代性的矛盾性——反思波德莱尔的现代性概念

当代,现代性的求新逻辑业已成为艺术的传统和常态,而它所表现出的不断自我消耗、自我否定的趋势也颇令人忧虑。倡导现代性的先驱波德莱尔其实对该问题有更为辩证的见解。其艺术二重性观点既肯定了短暂、偶然的一面,也认可了艺术永恒性的一面。在波德莱尔眼中,现时的美并不否定永恒的美,而且艺术品的永恒恰恰内蕴在现时的艺术品之中。

The Ambivalence of Modernity:Reflecting onBaudelaire's Concept of Modernity

The pursuit of the New has become the tradition and common phenomenon in the art world,and this trend of self-consuming and self-negating is quite worrying.Baudelaire,one of the pioneers advocating modernity,had a more dialectical understanding of this problem.He emphasized the pursuing of both the momentary and contingent present and the Eternity.In his opinion,the temporary beauty of artwork is not a denial of its eternal beauty;on the contrary,the artwork’s Eternity is embedded in the temporary beauty.