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地点：文学研究院会议室（科研大楼504室）
主办单位：上外文学研究院
讲座内容简介：
Art has been related to the divine across cultures. In most traditions, the divine has been viewed as the ultimate aesthetic ideal, and aesthetics is full of notions, ideas, and concepts related to it, without which artistic criticism and aesthetic education would be in a much impoverished state. The divine in art, however, is a slippery category. In this article, I will examine some critical and theoretical data on the divine, divine creation, and divine spirit in artistic representation from the Chinese and Western traditions and explore how the Chinese and Western traditions employ ideas of the divine for artistic conceptions and aesthetic creation. On the basis of comparison and contrast, I will try to obtain some rational insights into the relationship between artistic creation and the divine in terms of logical analysis. Finally, I will make some efforts to reconcpetualize the insights drawn from both traditions, and explore to what extent the divine is still relevant to present-day aesthetics, how an aesthetic ideal may be conceived on ideas of the divine in artistic representation, and in what ways an art work may be considered to have entered the divine realm of artistic ideal.
