Modernization of beauty in China : from the "great debate on aesthetics" to the "aesthetic fever" and beyond

Sernelj, Tea (author)

The article explores the socio-political and historical development of the great debate on aesthetics and the aesthetic fever in China during the 20th century. It introduces the main figures of the aesthetic movement and their aesthetic theories. It introduces the period of appropriation of the aesthetic debates to Marxist ideology that prevailed in China after 1949 and lasted until the end of 1970s. The 1980s and 1990s represent a shift in the Chinese aesthetic debate which focused on the adoption of Western aesthetic concepts and paradigms in a more scientific way. The article tackles the problem of Chinese society on the verge of the millennium, and problematizes the consumerism of art and attitudes towards aesthetics in general.

• Language: English
• Keywords: aesthetics, great debate on aesthetics in China, aesthetic fever, aesthetization of everyday life
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2021
• Number of pages: Str. 165-179
• Numbering: Vol. 9 (25), no. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-126935
• UDC: 111.852(510)
• ISSN on article: 2232-5131
• DOI: 10.4312/as.2021.9.2.165-179
• COBISS.SI-ID: 62727427
• Publication date in RUL: 11.05.2021

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Asian studies
• Publisher: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete, Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete, Založba Univerze v Ljubljani
• ISSN: 2232-5131
• COBISS.SI-ID: 265206272

Licences

• License: CC BY-SA 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Description: This Creative Commons license is very similar to the regular Attribution license, but requires the release of all derivative works under this same license.
• Licensing start date: 07.05.2021

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Modernizacija lepote na Kitajskem : od »velike razprave o estetiki« do »estetske vročice« in naprej

Abstract

Članek raziskuje družbeno-politični in zgodovinski razvoj velike razprave o estetiki in estetski vročici na Kitajskem v 20. stoletju. Predstavi glavne osebnosti estetskega gibanja in njihove estetske teorije. Obravnava obdobje prilagajanja estetskih razprav marksistični ideologiji, ki je na Kitajskem prevladovala po letu 1949 in trajala do konca sedemdesetih let. Osemdeseta in devetdeseta leta pomenijo premik v kitajski estetski razpravi, ki se je na znanstven način osredotočila na prevzemanje zahodnih estetskih konceptov in paradigem. Članek se loteva problema kitajske družbe na prelomu tisočletja ter problematizira potrošništvo umetnosti in odnos do estetike nasploh.

• Keywords: estetika, velika razprava o estetiki na Kitajskem, estetska vročica, estetizacija vsakdanjega življenja