从参与民族国家建构到返归乡土语境——评20世纪的中国乡民艺术研究

从20世纪初到1970年代,在“民族国家”意识的导引下,乡民艺术经历了一个被抽象化、工具化与符号化的过程,其政治价值得到充分开发,其主体意识则长期处于被遮蔽状态。1980年代以降,众多学者试图在阐释中使乡民艺术返归乡土语境,多维度的解蔽努力使得这一研究领域重新焕发生机。

From Construction of Nation to Native Context——on the studies of Chinese folk arts in the 20th century

From the beginning of the 20th century to the 1970s,guided by the consciousness of the “nation”,folk arts had experienced the process of abstraction,instrumentation and symbolization,its political value having been fully exploited,yet its subjective sense having long been obstructed.Since the 1980s,however,scholars have tried to return local arts to local contexts through interpretation,thus the multi-dimensional relieving efforts having made the research field radiate with fresh vigor.