主讲人：Michael Ranta

讲座时间：11月9日（星期日）15：00—17：00

讲座地点：2教101教室

主持人：李晓静

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：

 “艺术”是一个模棱两可且常常带有价值观色彩的概念，其定义面临着诸多障碍。在过去的几十年里，任何试图通过必要和充分条件来定义艺术的尝试都必然会失败，这种观点在艺术理论界获得了相对广泛的认可。如果说20世纪之前提出的本质主义艺术观站不住脚，那么当代艺术的发展则使这些观点更加成问题。正如莫里斯·韦茨（1956）所建议的那样，艺术或许应该被视为一个开放的概念。受路德维希·维特根斯坦关于游戏和语言本质的评论的启发，他声称艺术作品的类别是由一个复杂的相似性网络——一种“家族相似性”——构成的，而不是由任何核心特征构成的。诸如“美”和“审美价值”之类的概念本身就极具争议性，因为它们在艺术内外都具有广泛的适用性，有时甚至基于其他颇具争议的概念，例如“无私的愉悦”或“审美体验”。

 在本讲座中，我将展示这些方法如何影响理解“艺术”这一类别的本质，尤其要结合当代艺术进行探讨。此外，我还会探讨认知心理学和分类学领域的最新研究。此外，还将详细讨论一些具体的艺术作品。

 “Art” is an ambiguous and frequently value-laden concept, the definition of which faces numerous obstacles. During the last few decades, the view that any attempt to define art by referring to necessary and sufficient conditions must fail has gained relatively wide acceptance in academic circles theorizing about the arts. If essentialist views on art put forward before the 20th century must be regarded as untenable, the development of contemporary art has made such views even more problematic. As Morris Weitz (1956) has suggested, art might instead be thought of as an open concept. Inspired by Ludwig Wittgenstein's remarks on the nature of games and language, he claims that the class of artworks is constituted by a complicated network of similarities - a "family resemblance" - rather than by any core set of characteristics. Concepts such as "beauty" and "aesthetic value" are highly problematic anyway, given their broad applicability within and outside art, and sometimes based on other controversial notions: e.g., "disinterested pleasure" or "aesthetic experience".

 In this lecture, I intend to show how these approaches may have a bearing on understanding the nature of the category "art", not least by taking contemporary art into consideration. Also recent research within cognitive psychology and categorization will here be taken into account. Some concrete works of art will be discussed in some detail.

编辑：佟博   审核：谭光辉   终审：徐文渊