早前在西方美学中,对艺术与日常生活经验的区分是基于康德关于美的概念:审美经验有价值,是因为它有能力生成以非功利性为特征的审美体验。艺术的非功利性植根于想象力的自由游戏,独立于欲望或感官愉悦,独立于实用后果或其他世俗后果。由此,艺术成为自由想象的产物,区别于自然世界,以及日常生活中的实践活动和对象。自二十世纪初,西方艺术中的思想与实践从迪弗(Thierry De Duve)所描述的状况转 Earlier in Western aesthetics, the distinction between artistic and everyday experience was based on Kant’s notion of beauty: aesthetic experience was valuable because of its ability to generate an aesthetic experience characterized by non-utilitarianism. The non-utilitarian art is rooted in imaginative free play, independent of desire or sensual pleasure, independent of practical consequences or other mundane consequences. As a result, art becomes the product of free imagination, different from the natural world and the practical activities and objects in daily life. Since the early twentieth century, the ideas and practices in Western art have changed from those described by Thierry De Duve