编者按:本专题三篇文章是四川大学傅其林教授主持的国家社科基金重大招标项目“东欧马克思主义美学文献整理与研究”的阶段性成果。该项目主要对受苏联影响的东欧七国的马克思主义美学文献进行整理,并对实践美学、现实主义美学、美学现代性、符号学美学、艺术门类美学等核心问题展开深入研究。《艺术何为?》是南斯拉夫实践派重要代表人物 Editor’s Note: The three articles in this topic are the milestones of the major national social science fund tenders sponsored by Professor Fu Qilin from Sichuan University and the “Collation and Study of Marxist Aesthetic Literature in Eastern Europe.” This project mainly organizes the Marxist aesthetics documents of the seven Eastern European countries affected by the Soviet Union and conducts an in-depth study on such core issues as practical aesthetics, realistic aesthetics, aesthetic modernity, semiotic aesthetics and art aesthetics. “What is art?” Is an important representative of the Yugoslav practice group