引言黑格尔在两个世纪以前曾预言过艺术的终结,他认为,人类认识最高真理的历史始于艺术,经由宗教, 而最后终结于哲学。按照黑格尔的看法,当人的心灵可以直接地自由地观照与思考所谓的“绝对理念”时,艺术存在的必要性也就失去了。与图像同时可以看作是广义上的视觉文化的书法,在新的世纪里正面临着图像文化的冲击。当然,无论是传统书法还是现代书法都有其图像性的一面,但是由于现代艺术门类的划分有时很难界定,所以本文旨在讨论书法迥异于图像的独特属性。现代社会几乎成为了图像的社会,“读图”成为当今大众文化消费的基本途径,它使我们的 Introduction Hegel predicted the end of art more than two centuries ago. He believes that the history of human understanding of the highest truth begins with art, through religion, and finally ends with philosophy. According to Hegel, when the human mind can freely and directly contemplate and think of so-called “absolute ideas,” the necessity of artistic existence is lost. At the same time as the image, it can be regarded as the calligraphy of the visual culture in a broad sense. In the new century, it is facing the impact of image culture. Of course, both traditional calligraphy and modern calligraphy have their image side. However, since the classification of modern art is sometimes difficult to define, this article aims to discuss the unique attributes of calligraphy that are very different from images. Modern society has almost become an image society, “reading map” has become the basic way of mass culture consumption, it makes us