The Research On The Difference Of Regional Public Sculptures

After the industrial and bourgeois revolution, a flowering of new arts tended to shiftaway from the traditional concept, pursuing the self-expression and rebellion. However, intoday’s world, with the globalization and development of modernism, the pursuit of theunified and common standard, as well as functionality requires many places to realize theregionalism. Regionalism is a kind of self-reflection, finding out what they really are. Thisdissertation mainly explores the distinction of public sculpture in various areas. Comparedwith the identity and versatility of the public sculpture, the diversity of it seems particularlyvaluable. This kind of diversity is inherent, and it is urgent to rediscover it. The diversitywhich comes from different places is both historical and modern. Its historical nature pointsto the existence of ancient symbols, while its modern nature refers to the new-born, or rebornto be exact, characteristics. Public sculpture is no longer independent. Instead, it isinterrelated and interdependent with the region culture, space environment, regional nature,layout planning, and even the Geopolitical landscape.The meaning of studying the public sculpture lies in the study of its influence on theregional development, such as the presenting the historical and cultural heritage, embodyingthe invisible local culture, optimizing the regional environment, connecting the soft and hardpower, appreciating its uniqueness to improving cultural welfare. Besides, the influence ofthose representative cities is not only on its own area, but also the surrounding areas andthose cities being in the same condition with Shenzhen and Xi’an, according to theinformation from survey.The study of the regional differences in this dissertation is divided into three parts: thefirst part is it to define the regional public sculpture, sort out the development of publicsculpture, and the state reasons for studying its regional difference. The second part is tostudy differences from various aspects: the macro level which focuses on the study of overallplanning, and the development tendency; the meso level including the relationship betweensculpture and regional geographical environment, the layout of the sculpture as well as theembodiment of sculpture. In this part, Xi’an and Shenzhen, the representatives ofgeographical and social difference, will be cited as two exemplifications. Third part aims atfinding out the rationalities and the underlying problems of sculptures in two cities under thedirection of information collected in the part two. Additionally, in this part, a series ofprinciples about public sculptures will be formulated which has a certain guiding significancefor other places.