石器、形式感与审美意识之萌芽

制造石器的先决条件之一就是人的形式感,也正是在此形式感中,蕴涵着审美意识萌芽的契机。由于我们往往把石器制造想象成为简单而原始的劳动,审美发生学研究往往只从石器的规整形状上寻找人的"形式感"的证据,而不是从制造石器的先决条件上去寻找。这样不但使我们"见物不见人",而且也使得我们偏离审美发生学之本旨。发生学研究之要务,其实并不在于确定开端,而在于探究必要条件。

Stone Implements, Sense of Form and the Origin of Aesthetic Consciousness

One of the prerequisites for producing stone implements is the humans＇ sense of form in which the seeds of aesthetic consciousness are to sprout. For we used to take the production of stone implements as the simple and primitive labor, the genetic research of aesthetics often attempts to search for the evidence of such sense from the regular shapes of these stone implements, instead of from the prerequisites for producing them. This leads us not only to the illusion that we see only thing but men, but also to the deviation from main point of such study. And the urgent business of genetic research is not to define the starting-point of its subject, but to explore its necessary conditions.