Genesis of the Issue of Culture: The Cultural Fever and Avant-Garde of the 1980s

Abstract

It is reasonable to say that we may read cultural Cultural meaning Meaning from most art works directly or indirectly, since art is always a product of a specific cultural context Cultural context . It is different, however, to have cultural meaning in an artwork and to concentrate cultural issues Cultural issues in his/her art intentionally by the artist. When the former may focus on any issues beyond cultural concern Cultural concern , the latter may consider cultural issues pivotal and critical and comment on the issue one way or another. In other Other words, cultural meaning or message might or might not be read from the art in the first case, since the artist might or might not be interested in such issues; while in the second case, the artist knowingly injects his cultural concern into his art or comments on cultural issue in his works, so that the reading of a cultural meaning from such works would be natural.