直到“二战”前,欧洲人一直把美国看作是文化沙漠,认为美国人是一群粗鄙不堪、四处招摇的暴发户。但就是在这片巨大的文化沙漠上,一群文化侏儒们却凭借深刻的战略眼光和决心,以强大的经济和军事实力为后盾,经过精心策划和运作,仅用了二三十年的时间就颠覆了欧洲数百年呕心沥血构建起来的美学体系,把美国塑造成当代艺术美学体系的创造者和标准制定者,成为人类文明史上文化崛起的奇迹。这一切成就除了归功于美国宏大的战略眼光和有效的推广手段以外,还应归功于一套专业化、系统化、商业化和市场化的艺术赞助体系。本文从美国国家艺术基金会成立以后对当代艺术 Until “World War II”, Europeans had always regarded the United States as a cultural desert, thinking that Americans are a group of vulgar and swaggering upstarts. However, in this vast cultural desert, a group of cultural pygmies, with their profound strategic vision and determination, backed by strong economic and military strength, have been carefully planned and operated in only two or three decades Subverting the aesthetic system that Europe has devoted for centuries to building the United States into a creator and standard-setter of the contemporary art aesthetic system and a miracle of the rise of culture in the history of human civilization. In addition to its ambitious strategic vision and effective promotion tools, all this achievement should be attributed to a specialized, systematic, commercialized and marketed art sponsorship system. This article from the National Art Foundation of the United States after the establishment of contemporary art