在当今的艺术界,经常会听到这样的抱怨,为什么会有那么多的当代艺术作品呈现出缺乏美感的倾向?很多当代艺术家纷纷抛弃和谐的形式韵律,转而追寻极具观念性的装置、行为艺术,其背后究竟有怎样的美学理论支撑?论及当代艺术,总避不开美国哲学家、美学家与美术批评家丹托的理论。事实上,丹托的理论除了著名的关于“艺术终结”的哲学论述,还大大影响了今天艺术界对于“当代艺术”的界定。在20世纪60年代的美国,随着抽象表现主义的式微与波普艺术的勃兴,不断涌现的突破既往艺术理念的作品,促使理论界对现代主义之后的新艺术做出合理解释。“艺术终结”的理论,正是丹 In today’s art world, we often hear such complaints. Why do so many contemporary works of art present a lack of aesthetic sense? Many contemporary artists have abandoned the harmonious rhythm of formality and instead pursued highly conceptual installations. Behavioral arts, which behind what kind of aesthetics theory support? On contemporary art, the total can not avoid the United States philosopher, esthetician and art critic Danto theory. In fact, Danto’s theory, apart from the famous philosophical exposition on “the end of art,” greatly influenced the definition of “contemporary art” in the art world today. In the 1960s in the United States, with the decline of abstract expressionism and pop art popularization, the continuous breakthrough of the works of past artistic ideas has prompted theorists to make a reasonable explanation of the new art after modernism. “The end of art ” theory, it is Dan