Liberate And Alinate

Under the influence of western image study's boom, with the development and prosperity of socialist market economy and media, some Chinese sharp scholars immediately become aware of the coming of "image major cause times (image times)" that is different from traditional "text major cause times". The study on "image times" in China has developed flaring like fire set to dry tinder since the nineties of last century. Some scholars criticize "reading map times" severely, but some other scholars call image times' arrival with great zeal. No matter agree or oppose, the image has become an unavoidable problem. The people from different groups treat and study image from different angles: The artists study image's structure, color and visual effects; news media study image's spread; sociologists study image's social characteristics and social influence. So no matter image times and image society are formed or not, the image has become current social hotspot and the focus of academic research.Image times' influence on people does exist, and is profound, revolutionary, and comprehensive. Image times not only changed people's way of thinking, world view, and life view, but also deeply influenced human's existence and characteristic, humanity inevitabally changes in image times. On the one hand, image liberated humanity ; on the other hand, it alienated humanity . We even can say image shaped humanity. Image times' influence on people can be seen everywhere. Image times is beauty's times, beauty's rise caused aesthetics ' prosperity, and beauty into daily life caused aesthetics ' disappearance. In image times, the relation between art and life is upside down, life imitates art, art is as true as life, life is as misty as art. As image, television makes people get equal power to obtain information, and it also shackles people's thought by media's ideology. Image times is women's times, women get unprecedented liberation, but women still couldn't escape from men's look which is at everywhere. Image times embody a kind of thinking called the supremacy of space image which is a kind of life concept and life attitude claiming reading any picture and picture is all. In image times, image's richness enrich human nature, but at the same time, image's flat also wear down humanity.