Abstract
In anthropological aesthetic studies, aesthetic activities in primitive society are usually part of others activities. Aesthetic studies show that art, due to its intuitive nature, is foundational in human practice, and that aesthetic activities are not attached to other activities but underlie all the activities. The conflict between the two theoretical approaches has raised questions which concern whether the original, fundamental and authentic value of aesthetic activities is applicable to primitive society, and whether the primitive people is a people without aesthetic activities. Therefore, there is a need to substantiate the original gestation of the foundational meaning of aesthetic activities from the perspective of aesthetics. Psychological studies on the primitive art reveal that the aesthetic activities among the primitive people had an important significance of themselves, and the significance might even show to be foundational to aesthetic activities. The theorization of the primitive aesthetic activities has been obscured due to theoretical traps in linguistic rendition, utilitarian causality, physical existence, the assumed community etc.
First Page
210
Last Page
216
Recommended Citation
Zhu, Yuan. 2013. "The Gestation of Foundational Meaning in Aesthetical Activities." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 33, (5): pp.210-216. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol33/iss5/21
