书籍介绍
《另类准则》是美国当代最杰出的艺术史家和艺术批评家之一列奥·施坦伯格的艺术批评文集。藉着这部评论20世纪艺术的书,施坦伯格将艺术批评提升到了一个新的高度。他一生致力于研究罗丹、莫奈、毕加索、波洛克、贾斯伯·约翰斯及其他艺术家的作品,特别擅长将严谨的形式分析融入图像志的主题分析之中,目光敏锐,观察精确,为现代艺术的图像学研究,提供了卓越的范本。《另类准则》已成为20世纪艺术批评史上无可争议的经典。
“这些论文构成了……当代艺术现实的一部分,而此书就其本身来说就是一个文化事件……我们时代精神中的一种力量。”——阿瑟·丹托(Arthur Danto):《美学与艺术批评杂志》(Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism)
“[这是]本年度最佳艺术类书籍,如果说还不是整整十年,或一个世纪的最佳艺术类书籍的话。……此卷的意义并不在于洞察力的质量——尽管质量非常之高,洞见也极其重要——而在于风格的丰富、精确与优雅……与列奥·施坦伯格的心灵相遇,是当代艺术批评所能提供的最富有启示意义的经验之一。”——阿尔弗雷德·弗兰肯史坦(Alfred Frankenstein):《艺术新闻》(Art News)
“人们通常并不把勇气这样的概念与学术工作联系在一起,但是没有比它更合适的词汇来形容列奥·施坦伯格作为一个艺术史家与艺术批评家的事业了。”——安德烈·海伊姆(Andre Hayum):《伯灵顿杂志》(Burlington Magazine)
“此书确证了我一个长期拥有的信念,即施坦伯格不仅是艺术批评家中最明晰和独立的头脑之一,也是最深刻的头脑之一。即使人们不同意他的观点,也不得不绝对尊敬他。”——罗伯特·马瑟韦尔(Robert Matherwell)
AI导读
核心看点
- 施坦伯格挑战格林伯格形式主义,提出图像志与形式分析结合的新批评范式。
- 深入剖析毕加索、约翰斯等大师,揭示现代艺术从错觉到物性的转变逻辑。
- 被誉为20世纪艺术批评经典,以敏锐洞察重塑了当代艺术研究的理论高度。
适合谁读
- 艺术史、艺术理论专业的学生与学者,需具备一定现代艺术基础知识。
- 对20世纪现代艺术、当代艺术批评及图像学研究有浓厚兴趣的深度读者。
- 希望突破传统形式主义框架,探索艺术意义多元性的进阶爱好者。
读前提醒
- 译文质量争议较大,部分段落晦涩难懂,建议配合英文原版或导读辅助阅读。
- 内容学术性强,逻辑严密,需耐心细读,可结合具体画作案例辅助理解。
- 不必强求全盘接受,可将其视为一种批判性视角,与格林伯格观点对照阅读。
读者共识
- 尽管译文备受诟病,但书中洞见深刻,被公认为艺术批评领域的里程碑之作。
- 对毕加索、约翰斯等艺术家的解读极具启发性,颠覆了传统的艺术认知方式。
- 阅读门槛较高,需忍受翻译瑕疵,但深入理解后能获得极大的智力满足感。
本导读基于书籍简介、目录、原文摘录、短评和书评生成,不等同于全文精读。
精彩摘录
- "a sacrifice upon the altar of those faculties which he sincerely believes to be nobler and more important"
- "Modern art always projects itself into a twilight zone where no values are fixed. It is always born in anxiety, at least since Cezanne. And Picasso once said that what matters most to us in Cezanne, more than his pictures, is his anxiety. It seems to me a frmction of modem art to transmit this anxie"
- "The heavy outlines that accost these figured nymphs prevent any materialization of bulk or density. They seem to drain energy away from the core of the figure, making it radiate into the space about them. Or perhaps it is our vision that is shunted away, so that a figure is no sooner recognized than"
- "Contemporary art is constantly inviting us to applaud the destruction of values which we still cherish, while the positive cause, for the sake of which the sacrifices are made, is rarely made clear."
- "But here, in this picture by Jasper Johns, one felt the end of illusion. No more manipulation of paint as a medium of transformation. This man, if he wants something three-dimen- sional, resorts to a plaster cast and builds a box to contain it. When he paints on a canvas, he can only paint what is f"
- "With mindless inhumanity or indifference, the organic and the inorganic had been leveled. A dismembered face, multi- plied, blinded, repeats four times above the impersonal stare of a bull's-eye. Bull's-eye and blind faces-but juxtaposed as if by habit or accident, without any expressive intent. As "
- "He regains that perpetual oscillation which characterised our looking at pre-abstract art. But whereas, in traditional art, the oscillation was between the painted surface and subject in depth, Johns succeeds in making the pendulum swing within the flatland of post-Abstract Expressionist art. Yet th"
- "Johns gives his two-dimensional signs greater substance, weight and texture than they had in reality; in other words, he turns them into objects. The means and the meaning, the visible and the known, are so much on eand the same, that a distinction between content and form is either not yet or no lo"
作者简介
列奥·施坦伯格(Leo Steinberg,1920-),美国著名文艺复兴艺术史专家,20世纪最杰出的艺术批评家之一。著有《文艺复兴艺术及现代健忘中的基督的性征》、《米开朗琪罗最后的绘画》、《莱奥纳多永远的最后晚餐》、《遭遇劳申伯格》、《另类准则》等。鉴于他对美国艺术世界的巨大影响力,他与克莱门特·格林伯格(Clement Greenberg)、哈洛德·罗森伯格(Harold Rosenberg)一道,被誉为美国“文化三伯格(三山)”。