什么是艺What is Art.doc

What is Art?Any brief definition of art would oversimplify the matter, but we can say that all the definitions offered over the centuries include some notion of human agency, whether through manual skills (as in the art of sailing or painting or photography), intellectual manipulation (as in the art of politics), or public or personal expression (as in the art of conversation). Recall that the word is etymologically related to artificial -- i.e., produced by human beings. Since this embraces many types of production that are not conventionally deemed to be art, perhaps a better term for them would be visual culture. This would explain why certain preindustrial cultures produce objects which Eurocentric interests characterize as art, even though the producing culture has no linguistic term to differentiate these objects from utilitarian artifacts. Having said that, we are still left with a class of objects, ideas and activities that are held to be separate or special in some way. Even those things which become art even though they are not altered in any material way -- e.g., readymades -- are accorded some special status in a describable way. Because of this complexity, writers have developed a variety of ways to characterize the art impulse. 什么是艺术?任何艺术的简短定义将简化问题,但是我们可以说,所有的定义提供了在过去的几个世纪里包括一些人类的机构,无论是通过手工技能(如艺术的帆船或绘画或照片),智力操作(如从政的艺术),或公共或个人的表现(就像在交谈的艺术)。回想一下,这个词是语源关系到人工——也就是。产生的人类。因为这包含许多类型的生产,不是传统认为是艺术,也许一个更好的术语,他们将视觉文化。这可以解释为什么某些工业化前的文化产生兴趣的物体以欧洲为中心的艺术特征,即使生产文化没有语言术语来区分这些对象从功利的工件。已经说过,我们依然有一个类的对象,思想和活动,都是单独的或特殊以某种方式。即使是那些东西成为艺术尽管他们不改变任何材料的方式——例如。,readymades——招来了一些特殊的状态在一个可描写的方式。因为这种复杂性,作者开发了各种各样的方法来描述艺术冲动。 To me art is anything that stimulates my audio and visual senses. It doesnt matter whether it is a natural scenary, or a human creation. I enjoyed all forms of art. Reading a good book, watching a great film or TV program, an afternoon tour of the museum exhibits or camping in the wilderness are all considered nice treats for me. Art, in a broad sense, keeps