关键词: 书法, 审美, 现代性, 自律, 形式, 社会性

Abstract:

Based on CHEN Zhenlian and ZHANG Guiguang’s controversy on the issue of the development direction of calligraphy, this article analyzes the aesthetic self-discipline of calligraphy in the context of aesthetic modernity. Calligraphy that moves from the study to the exhibition hall gave birth to a new style of calligraphy labelled as “Exhibition Style”, which initiated the calligraphy aesthetic self-discipline. Based on the field effect of the exhibition hall, CHEN Zhenlian’s proposal of the “giant work” is the exploration and promotion of calligraphy aesthetic self-discipline. However, this kind of exploration led to the rebuttal from another proposal — “walking into thousands of homes”. That is actually the dilemma of calligraphy in the process of pursuing aesthetic self-discipline. Aesthetic self-discipline is a modern concept, so the article uses the thought of the Western Marxist Frankfurt School on the relationship between art and society for reference to analyze the particularity of the relationship between calligraphy aesthetic self-discipline and society. The article also points out that calligraphy must observe and adhere to “the way of calligraphy”, which enriches our life in the form of calligraphy in order to integrate into the society and the times. That is the development direction of calligraphy aesthetic self-discipline.

Key words: calligraphy, aesthetics, modernity, self-discipline, form, sociality