A Study On Meyer Shapiro’s Art Criticism

As one of the important representatives of American art historians,Meyer Shapiro’s unique art criticism has brought an immeasurable influence to the art research community.In Shapiro’s art criticism,we can see his profound artistic skills in freely shuttleing between knowledge of various disciplines and organically reconciling a variety of theoretical methods.Open thinking and forward-looking vision make it possible to always get rid of the shackles of existing research results and put forward some insights based on his artistic sensibility.The open criticism presented by Meyer Shapiro enriches the research results of art philosophy and provides enlightening value for the research of contemporary art philosophy.This article aims to sort out and interpret the representative art criticism in Shapiro’s art philosophy,hoping to present the wonderful aspects of this multi--dimensional research orientation,and to experience a broader art world.At the same time,it summarized and thought about Shapiro’s acceptance status in China,and tried to analyze the reasons why Shapiro’s art criticism methods are still in the stage of recognition and have not been widely used.The full text is divided into the following parts to elaborate,analyze and discuss Shapiro’s art criticism research.The introduction mainly elaborates the background and significance of the selected topic,combs the current situation of Shapiro’s art criticism research at home and abroad,especially the domestic research results about Shapiro,clarifies the research ideas and research methods of this article.At the same time,it briefly introduces Shapiro’s personal life experience and the theoretical origin of the study of criticism of art.The first part mainly elaborates the practice of introducing semiotics into the field of art history research in Shapiro’s art criticism research.This organic integration of disciplinary theory and art history has enriched the research results of art history and made it look completely new.The second part is about Shapiro’s attention to abstract art.The research on abstract art occupies a lot of space in Shapiro’s articles.His exquisiteness and astuteness are revealed between the lines of abstract art.This is also the focus of Shapiro’s modern art criticism.The third part mainly discusses Shapiro’s deep concern for the humanistic spirit and a series of efforts to defend the humanistic foundation in the study of Shapiro’s art criticism.The fourth part expounds the Chinese acceptance of Shapiro’s art criticism research,and tries to analyze the reasons why Shapiro’s criticism method has not been respected.The last part is the conclusion,which mainly discusses the important enlightenment that Shapiro’s study of art criticism has brought to the study of contemporary Chinese art history.Although it has not attracted much attention from the academic circles,its solid style of study,rigorous attitude,open vision,leapfrog thinking,etc.present this kind of open art criticism based on profound knowledge and theoretical reserves,which is still the current domestic needed by the institute of art criticism.