The "October" School and the aesthetic Modernism

《十月》季刊于1976年由麻省理工学院出版社首次出版，至今仍在继续。许多人关注这本杂志，因为它引起了一场重要的讨论，从多个领域对20世纪的先锋艺术进行了批判和理论化。像罗莎琳德·克劳斯、伊夫-阿兰·博伊斯和哈尔·福斯特这样的人编辑了这本杂志并写了文章，他们被称为“十月”学派。本课题旨在梳理《十月》的整体形象，审视《十月》中诸多著名散文的历史与理论，反思后现代时代的审美现代主义与艺术批评主义。人们可以列出以下几点作为该项目的结果。1.从体裁或媒介上看，“十月派”侧重于电影、摄影和雕塑。它试图重新评价，例如，爱森斯坦的电影，塞拉的雕塑和达达和构成主义在20世纪20年代的照片蒙太奇。对美学现代主义的反思表明，20世纪20年代的先锋派具有背离现代主义的宗派主义和理性主义的特征。用索引、伪装、无形、冲动等新的形式概念对艺术作品进行分析是值得注意的，因为它也试图超越形式主义的批评。从女性主义、制度和精神分析等角度对艺术作品进行分析也是克服形式主义的重要方向。其理论基础之一是法国的后建构主义，但它显然存在着诸多问题。

A quarterly "October" was first published in 1976 by MIT Press and goes on now. Many people pay attention to this journal, for it rouses an important discussion where avant-garde arts in the 20 century have been criticized and theorized from many fields. Such people as Rosalind Krauss, Yve-Alain Bois, and Hal Foster have edited the journal and written essays and they have been called the "October"school. The aim of this project is to make clear the whole image of "October", examining the history arid theory of many noticeable essays in "October" and to reconsider the aesthetic modernism and the art critisism in the postmodern era. One can list the following points as the result of this project.1. From the point of genre or medium, "October"school lays stress on film, photography and sculpture. It tries to revaluate, for example, Eisenstein's film, R.Serra's sculpture and the photomontage of Dada and Constructivism in the 1920's.2. On reconsidering the aesthtic modernism it has been definitely shown that the avant-garde in the 1920's had characteristics which deviated from the factionalism and rationalism of modernism.3. The analysis of art works by the new concepts of form such as index, camouflage, formless and impulse is noticeable, for it also tries to exceed the formalistic critisism.4. The analysis of art works from such points of view as feminism, institution and psychoanalysis is also the important direction of overcoming the formalism. One of its theoretical foundations is the post-constructivism in France, but it is clear that it contains many problems.