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“大多数人用耳朵看一幅画,”这是一句中国谚语,尽管我怀疑这实际上是p·t·巴纳姆(P. T. Barnum)那种愤世嫉俗的美国人的机智,伪装成一颗古老东方智慧的明珠。我们这些教授艺术史的人非常清楚,要说服学生放弃他们已经被告知的关于一件艺术作品的知识,用他们自己的眼睛和研究的发现来取代这种遗传的智慧是多么困难。也许我们有充分的理由感谢这么多来到我们教室的学生,他们对这门学科一无所知,拥有“透明的眼球”的无偏见的天真,这是爱默生只有在超然的狂喜时刻才体验到的。
“Most people look at a painting with their ears,” runs the old Chinese proverb, although I suspect this is actually a bit of cynical Yankee wit of the P. T. Barnum variety, disguised as a pearl of ancient oriental wisdom. Those of us who teach art history know very well how difficult it is to persuade students to abandon what they have already been told about a work of art, replacing this inherited sagacity with the evidence of their own eyes and the discoveries of their own research. Perhaps we have good reason to be thankful that so many of these students come to our classrooms with zero prior knowledge of the subject, possessing the unbiased innocence of the “transparent eye-ball” that Emerson experienced only in moments of transcendental ecstasy.