| 英文摘要 |
Performance artist Deborah de Robertis performed at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris on May 29, 2014, she showed her sexual organs to the public in front of Gustave Courbet’s work ‘The Origin of the World’, and was immediately stopped, and persuaded to leave by the exhibition’s female staff. This performance art caused an uproar, but also pointed out the central question of the aesthetic value of contemporary art: censorship. At 2011, Frédéric Durand-Baïssas, a French teacher, was suspended by Facebook for posting a picture of The Origin of the World on Facebook. Such cases of “challenging social norms in the name of art” are not uncommon in the field of contemporary art. These kinds of contemporary art creations, with their tendency to challenge norms, point to the core of contemporary art. Nathalie Heinich, sociologist of art, has analyzed this “tolerant contradiction” of contemporary art. |
