Outline Of Congress Of Aesthetics From New Period (1980-2014)

Congress of Aesthetics is the crucial scenery in history of aesthetics of new period. The aesthetics in new period was initiated and developed from the first national congress of aesthetics; and the congress of aestheticsplayed an important role in the aesthetics construction during the new period over the past 30 years and kept the close relation withsociety for aesthetics, building of aesthetic education, Marxist aesthetics,construction of the discipline of aesthetics, aestheticians, aesthetic culture and interchanges between Chinese aesthetic and western aesthetic. At the same time, the development of the history of aesthetics and formation of system of aesthetics since the new period were disclosed during the congress of aesthetics; and the trends of thehistory of aesthetics and system of aestheticsin thenew period could be exploredby studying the congress of aesthetics in new period. Moreover, this text is to sort out the congress of aesthetic since new period and reveal development of history of aesthetics and formation and effect of the system of aesthetics in the new period therefrom mainly.This text shall include seven chapters.Chapter 1: The logical starting point of initiation of aesthetics in the new period was tried to present from the first national congress of aesthetics held in the early 1980 s and the establishment of all provincialsocieties for aesthetics, and the starting process of thesocieties for aesthetics in the new period was revealed by restoring the scene and details of the congress at that moment after studying the first national congress of aestheticscarefully. At the same time, theaesthetic research in the early 1980 s and the development condition of theaesthetics construction were disclosed after researching the establishment condition of all provincialsocieties for aesthetics.Chapter 2: The conferences about the history of aesthetics and the aesthetic principle in the early stage of the new period were studied and the concerning of the congress of the aesthetics over the past 30 years to themodern Chinese aesthetic discipline in multiple aspects was analyzed after trying to clarify the earliest relationship between the congress of the aesthetics in the new period and theaesthetic discipline, in which all disciplines, such as history of aesthetics, aesthetic theory,aesthetics of literature and art and literary theory are involved.The continuous development of thediscipline of aesthetics could be seen and the new path was offered for formation of multiple branch disciplines of thediscipline of aesthetics in new period at the same timeon the basis of all previous conferences related to theaesthetic discipline.Chapter 3: The relationship problem between thecongress of aesthetics and theaesthetician was researched. The famous aestheticians, such as Zhu Guangqian, Zong Baihua, Li Zehou, etc. participated in the early congress of aesthetics in 1980 s, who pointed out the way and thedirection for development of aesthetics in the new period. The constructive paradigm of thehistory of aesthetics was enriched during validating identities of the dead aestheticians by some congresses of aesthetics. At the same time, the congress of aesthetics confirmed the identities of some new aestheticians and the effects thereof to the development process of thehistory of aesthetics; therefore the study of the aesthetics is consecutive in the continuous way.Chapter 4: The generation process of theaesthetic education thought in the development process of theaesthetics in the new period was disclosed and the important effect of the congress of aesthetics to the generation and development of aesthetic education was pointed out after sorting out thecongresses of aesthetics related to theaesthetic education by taking reconstruction and spreading of aesthetic education thought and theaesthetic education system in the new period as the center; the aesthetic education thought was developed continuously just due to discussion during thecongress of aesthetics again and again; and theaesthetic education system was perfected continuously due to all resolutions of thecongress of aesthetics again and again. However, some defects and shortages during this process should also be noticed at the same time.Chapter 5: The change of development of theMarxist aesthetics in the new period and the complicated relationships between theideology, Marxism and theaesthetics were noticed after researching the congresses of aesthetics related to the Marxist aesthetics in 1980 s, 1990 s and the years after 2000 respectively. Further, the important position and effect of theMarxism in the research of aesthetics and the system of aesthetics were also recognized from this relationship.Chapter 6: The relevant conferences related to aesthetic culture were clarified starting from the aesthetic culture, and it was considered that the congress of aesthetics and aesthetic research from the early 1990 s was transformed into theaesthetic culturegradually, in which the rich contents of aesthetics were included, such as aesthetics of tourism,landscape aesthetics,ecological aesthetics, national aesthetics, etc. Therefore, the motive promoting development of theaesthetic culture could be further found after researching thecongresses of aesthetics by taking these contents as the center.Chapter 7: The important role of the congress of aesthetics on the way of interchange of Chinese aesthetics and western aesthetics, especially the contributions in generation and development process of the oriental aesthetics and theaesthetics of life was researched by taking thecongress of aesthetics in the new century as the center. Moreover, that the Chinese aesthetics could be integrated into the worldwide aesthetics so quickly was closely linked with some new aestheticians who participated in and organized relevant congresses of aesthetics; especially the 18 thInternational Congress of Aesthetics offered the active warranty for development of the Chinese aesthetics in the new century.Thesocieties of aesthetics, the aestheticians and theworldwide aesthetics might affect the Chinese aesthetics greatly during the development process of aesthetics in the new period according to the conclusion; and theaesthetics study and aesthetic thought in China during the new period were constructed directly due to multiplecongresses of aesthetics concerned. Moreover, the active effect of the congresses of aesthetics to the development of aesthetics over the past 30 years was concluded historically at the same time.