The Discussion And Rethinking On Jiang Kongyang's Thoughts Of Literature And Art Aesthetics

Jiang Kongyang's aesthetic thoughts are closely related with those on literature and art. Generally speaking, Mr. Jiang used to survey literature and art just from the aesthetic angle. It would be easy to understand Mr. Jiang's thoughts on literature and art if we have a general idea about his thoughts on aesthetic research beforehand.Mr. Jiang probes seriously into beauty basing on Marxism~"Labour creates beauty". In his opinion, beauty is not a static and unchangeable entity, but makes its existence in the process of practice and creation. That is to say, "Beauty is the objectification of human's essential capability ". Objectification has some rules to follow. "The rule of beauty" requires reaching "two standards". Since art is also the objectification of human's essential capability, its essence is the same as that of beauty. Consequently, we may get the conclusion, "the rule of beauty" equals to "the rule of art". Lacking of imagination is considered to be a big weakness in literature and art, with two kinds of demonstrations—one is to have a strong concentration on the description about plane and trivial things in one's life; the other is the groundless presentation far away from the reality. As for the former, the principal part of creation needs to enhance his spiritual quality and humanistic ambitions. To correct the latter, creators should be encouraged to observe and experience the real life more deliberately. Mr. Jiang's theory about "the rule of beauty" may be an effective way to boost the art imagination.Literature and art is the concentrated exhibition of beauty, reflecting the reality through art images. Individuality and Generality are unified dialectically in art images, especially in typical images. Mr. Jiang prefers the unification in individuality than in generality. Mr. Jiang's views on typical images derived from the discussions with the scholars of other schools, with more directive effects on literary creation. After all, the art creation starts with the individual images from the reality. Nowadays, though "Non-typical writing" gains great popularity, it is fiercely criticized by the academia for it results in reducing the profundity of art and weakening the rethinking on life. Presently, the complicated society provides a good opportunity for the creation of typical images, the advocating of which will help to get back adorers' support.Mr. Jiang attaches great importance to the function of literature and art in reflecting the reality. And because he studies literature and art from his aesthetic viewpoints, he pays more attention to the particularity of literature and art—theaesthetic function of literature, which inspires the appearance of aesthetic reflection theory afterwards."Human is beauty of the world." indicates that beauty is bom for human. The aesthetic education aims at cultivating well-rounded people and realizing all the human essences. Mr. Jiang takes the human essence as the starting-point as well as the end-point for his research about beauty so that he gives a full development for beauty's orbit. Literature and art are the centralized embodiment of beauty and the chief means to carry out the aesthetics education. Literature and art fight uncompromisingly against uglification and pretending to be uglified except the uglification in life which can be converted to the beauty in art. Nowadays "consumptive literature and art" are inundant with an obvious trend of commoditization, entertainment, appetency and uglification. Some men of insight find it's important and urgent to save literature and art, as a result, they are calling for rebuilding and developing "neo—humanistic spirit", which is in common with Mr. Jiang's thoughts of aesthetic education that is still significant for the sound development of literature and art.Mr. Jiang's thoughts on beauty, art and life are consistent. However, the present-day art has a habit of being extreme and pays attention to only one aspect. Therefore, it's undoubtedly valuable to bring up Mr. Jiang's thoughts again for the art world. Admittedl...