艺术活动的第五个基本要素

对艾布拉姆斯提出的艺术活动四要素进行了新的探究。从艺术活动的整体性来考查,认为艺术媒介同样是艺术活动的最基本的因素之一,它与世界、作者、作品和读者四个要素在基础理论建设中处于同等重要的位置,构成艺术活动的基本“五个要素艺”,忽视或削减这个要素的理论作用,艺术的基本理论建设就会出现重大的缺失。文章认为艺术媒介还有助于对“艺术生产”“艺术消费”理论的建设,对重建艺术发展史能起到决定性作用,并且有助于为艺术分类提供直接的理论依据。

The 5th Basic Element of Art Activities

Through a new probe into 4 elements of art activities by Abrams and the examination of integrativity of art activities, the paper believes that art medium is also one of the basic elements and of the same importance with the other 4 elemenets (world, writer, works and reader) in basic theory construction, constituting the 5th element, and, ignoring or weakening its theoretic role will bring about great lack of basic art theory construction. The paper holds that art medium is of great help to theory constructiion of art production and constumption and providing a direct theoretic basis for art classificatiion and is of determining role in reconstructing art development history.