艾爾雅維茨(Aleš Erjavec)博士是斯洛維尼亞文理科學院哲學所的所長，同時也是國際美學會的前會長，著述等身。在本篇文章中，他主要針對後現代主義這個概念與後社會主義撞擊出來的結果，這個他稱之為「後社會主義藝術」(postsocialist art)的藝術現象提出一些看法，並歸結他所觀察到的五項特徵：一、觀念藝術；二、後現代主義技術與程序的使用；三、社會主義與共產主義意象的過度運用；四、民族遺產與民間、傳統與大眾文化的使用；五、「二元」藝術方法的經常使用。艾爾雅維茨博士在文中引述豐富，論述清晰，期許今日我們在濫用「後現代」這個詞的同時，能夠有一些深入的理解。
Dr. Aleš Erjavec is currently the research director of Institute of Philosophy, Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is also the former head of International Aesthetics Association, a distinguished author of many books and publications. In this paper, he offers great insight into what he called as "postsocialist art", a product of the clash between postmodernism and postsocialism. Erjavec's observation concludes with the following five features: (a) conceptualism; (b) use of postmodernist techniques and procedures; (c) profuse use of socialist and communist imagery; (d) use of national heritage and of folk, traditional and mass culture; and (e) frequent use of the "binary" artistic approach. This paper provides in-depth arguments based on serious and well-grounded discussions that would lead the readers to a better understanding of the over-used term "postmodern".
