汪瑞(中国艺术研究院美术研究所副研究员):丁老师,您读研究生时学的是文艺理论,后来转向艺术心理学和西方美术史论等。近些年,您的研究视野又从传统的美术史扩展到视觉文化领域。在这个过程中,是什么促使您进行不同领域研究的?另外,您是否认为,交叉学科的研究背景会对美术史研究有着良好的促进作用?丁宁(北京大学教授、博导):我和当时很多年轻人一样,一开始也是热衷文学、美学等。读研究生时跟过蒋祖怡教授,其父蒋伯潜是民国时浙江图书馆的馆长,在十三经的 Wang Rui (Associate Researcher, Academy of Fine Arts, China Academy of Art): Mr. Ding, when you were a graduate student, studied literary theory and later turned to art psychology and Western art history. In recent years, your field of vision has expanded from traditional art history to visual culture. In the process, what motivates you to conduct research in different fields? In addition, do you think that interdisciplinary research background will have a good role in promoting the study of art history? Ding Ning (Peking University professor, PhD): I and many Young people, like the beginning, are keen literature, aesthetics and so on. When studying with a graduate student Professor Jiang Zuyi, his father Jiang Boqian was the Curator of the Zhejiang Library during the Republic of China,