主讲人：Michael Ranta

讲座时间：11月2日（星期日）15：00—17：00

讲座地点：2教101教室

主持人：石涵丹

专家简介：

 Michael Ranta，瑞典斯德哥尔摩大学艺术史副教授。主要研究领域包括美学、艺术史和认知心理学，写过关于符号学、美学、叙事学和艺术史问题的文章。目前在中国成都四川大学（新闻与文学学院）担任研究员/教师；此外，他还是瑞典林奈大学的研究员。他最近的一本专著名为《图片如何讲故事——图像叙事学论集》（剑桥学者出版社，2022年）。

 Michael Ranta is Associate Professor in Art History from Stockholm University, Sweden. His principal research includes aesthetics, art history, and cognitive psychology, and he has written on semiotic, aesthetic, narratological, and art historical issues. He is currently employed as a researcher/teacher at Sichuan University, Chengdu, China (College of Journalism and Literature); further, he is a research fellow at Linnaeus University, Sweden. His most recent book is entitled "How Pictures Tell Stories - Essays on Pictorial Narrativity" (Cambridge Scholars Publ., 2022).

讲座内容简介：

 是否存在一些对审美活动和话语的出现至关重要的基本机制？在本讲中，我将讨论诺埃尔·卡罗尔（Noël Carroll，2001）的观点，即先前和当前的艺术活动之间存在叙事联系，通过将事件和对象置于一个解释性的历史框架中，赋予它们意义。与美学作为哲学分支的观点相反，我认为我们必须考虑来自例如进化论和旧石器时代研究的实证研究。这些研究可能有助于从文化进化的角度更全面、更有力地理解艺术。在此，我将概述美学史中的一些一般方法，以及一些关于艺术（主要是视觉艺术）史前起源的设想。尤其值得一提的是，本文将论证，从进化论的角度来看，摹仿（或模仿）这一古典美学中的关键概念之一，确实构成了艺术创作实践的基础要素之一。我还将展示并讨论一些史前艺术的具体案例，例如洞穴壁画和“维伦多尔夫的维纳斯”。

 Are there any basic mechanisms which seem to be crucial for the emergence of aesthetic activities and discourses? In this lecture, I shall discuss Noël Carroll’s (2001) suggestion that preceding and current art activities have a narrative connection, giving events and objects significance by situating them within an explanatory historical framework. In opposition to aesthetics as a philosophical branch, I will claim that one must take account of empirical studies from e.g. evolutionary theory and paleololithic research Such studies may contribute to a fuller, more supportive understanding of art from a cultural evolutionary point of view. Hereby, I shall outline some general approaches within the history of aesthetics as well as some proposals concerning the prehistoric origins of art (mainly the visual arts). In particular, it will be argued that mimesis (or imitation), one of the key notions within classical aesthetics, indeed constitutes one of the foundational ingredients of art-making practices, seen from an evolutionary point of view. I shall also present and discuss a number of concrete examples of prehistoric art, such as cave paintings and the “Venus of Willendorf”.

编辑：佟博   审核：谭光辉    终审：徐文渊