英文摘要 |
This paper explores the transformation and creation of surrealistic painting in East Asia during the 1930s, illuminates the diverse processes which arise through the interplay of the arts and social realities in East Asia. Previous scholarship has examined the introduction of surrealism to Japan from Europe in the late 1920s, which, though it spread throughout East Asia in the 1930s, disappeared rapidly during Second World War. However, little attention has been paid to the art associations of Taiwan and China from a comparative perspective-associations which were simultaneously inspired by surrealist art promoted by the Independent Art Association founded in Tokyo, 1930. This paper indicates that in colonial Taiwan, Japanese surrealistic artists engaged in the transformation of local images, while Taiwanese artists rejected surrealism. On the other hand, Chinese artists translated and engaged actively in surrealism to improve the artistic and social realities. This paper firstly provides an overview of the emergence of surrealist art in East Asia during the 1930s, and of research findings to date. Secondly, the paper not only examines the curation of surrealistic paintings, and the translation of the theory, but also presents a stylistic and iconological analysis of these artists’ works. This paper draws on these to reveal the diversification of surrealist art in East Asia, and provides an opportunity for rethinking modern art history in Taiwan and East Asia. |