The Uses Of Images As Historical Evidence

On the basis of many investigations,this paper take the most representative General New Year pictures “Respected Supreme Commander” of the People’s Republic of China in the 1980 s as research objects.Persist in value manifests of “take the last as a lesson” and “make the past serve the present”,follow the method of Engels’ s“ reach definite conclusion from historical reality and developing process ”,and the research approach of Fei Xiaotong’s“Every thing’s modernity would be trace back to the tradition and conventions”, based on the interaction between image analysis and literature theory,describes and analyzes the cause of the formation of “Respected Supreme Commander” image, production process,color characteristics,modeling technique and so on,and the key point from surprising perspective of cultural and art history to searching the meanig of behind the image,is cultural consciousness.The “Respected Supreme Commander” is a product of the specific age,Its seemingly by accident, but inevitable.It contact with the particular political,economy,cultural environment as a especial cultural phenomenon and society phenomenon,and reflect the promote and initiate to national spirit of heroism and the change of literature and art policy by the country in the period of society transformation. “Respected Supreme Commander” that undertakes mass media dissemination of information functions,and reflect the link between image evolution and political ideology,the quintessence of ideology is “hero worship”,is unique style created basic of heritage national cultural.This unique style both have peculiarity in culture and historical, representative the “hero worship” transition in image and modality,promote by particular requirement of society and political claim,and have the universality in reflect aesthetic consciousness of the public and the system of value evaluationto expression spiritual demand in national aesthetic.Finally,this paper wish for responsible to the history in this age background,It aims at providing model paradigm to promote Chinese national cultur e, responsible to the history, the writer facilitate the thinking of the ethos and its evolution trends in the context of the times,which do some supplementary theory for the new Spring Festival pictures,and provide a typical paradigm carry forward to the Chinese national culture, advocate the national spirit and the Chinese nation to the great revival.