The Astring Quartet Of New Sensibility

The new sensibility has set a new coordinate for the modern art in the name of contemporary aesthetic criticism.It contains so many basic judgments in post-modern aesthetic theories, like the uncoinciding of words and objects in linguistic field, which reflects a dislocation of being and meaning in the real world; the replacement of sensory feelings for infelt feelings, which opens a spiritual and irony-featured post-metaphysical way in which materialism takes over spiritual emotions; the subjectivity excess of Avant-garde in "anti-art for anti-art", which although leads to the implosion in art, but conversely re-connects the relationship between art and society; and the new media art brought by mechanical reproduction technology, which combines commercial capital and ideology in practice, despite calling to an end to the reflection theory and imitation theory, and again questioning the originality of individual artists.These basic judgments can be reflected as four different but connected topics in Susan Sontag’s aesthetic criticism, named "opposition to interpretation","Camp-style new sensibility","aesthetics of silence", and "the relationship between art and tech in photography". Susan’s opposition to interpretation shows her opposition to stereotype and uncompromising to the public. She values Camp at his promoting artists in showing a anti-authoritarian attitude, as well as keeping an ambiguous relationship with the public in this era of standardization. She views aesthetics principle of silence both as a reflexive of art and a seeking of metaphysical path that origin from the materialism of the art without any ideology. As to the technical feature in photography, she emphasis that it reaffirms the principle in new sensibility---"Surface is Nature", and not only acts as a new media that overlaps the words ad objects, but also re-expresses the relationship between life and art as two-way confirmed.