关键词: 当代艺术, 传统手工艺, 符号意义, 话语"锚地"

Abstract:

China’s traditional handicrafts have been increasingly highlighted, with its endeavor to continuously borrow contemporary art so as to fit in with Western visual art expressions. In the discourse of art criticism, this borrowing has been manifested as giving new vitality to traditional culture and a brand-new way of inheriting and developing traditional handicrafts. This article puts the local cultural connotations of traditional handicrafts in the traditional and contemporary contexts, and takes the "cultural diamond" theoretical model and semiotic theory as the theoretical basis to analyze and recognize the value of this type of art criticism discourse, and considers it to be the intermedia element in the "cultural diamond" model, and the invention of the rhetorical symbol game of meaning, that is, turning the language of art criticism into the power of rhetoric, rather than the symbolic meaning of the traditional craftsmanship itself in the contemporary art works. The borrowing of traditional handicrafts by contemporary art belongs to the artistic innovation method of the transforming, deconstructing and combining of the cultural elements and materials of traditional handicrafts by way of referring to its cultural value and drawing on its elements and formulas. Its discourse is still "Western" rather than the inheritance and development of traditional handicrafts. Therefore, it is necessary to find the discourse "anchorage" of traditional handicrafts in this kind of art criticism discourse.

Key words: contemporary art, traditional handicraft, symbolic meaning, discourse "anchorage"