20世纪末以来,与现代民主文化的发展逻辑相应,许多城市(空间)都力求以公共文化建构来印证自己的现代品格。这种对公共文化的热烈追求使我们与雕塑在城市空间中的相遇变得日趋频繁。同时,“城市雕塑与公共艺术”的并置观念随着城市公共艺术建设潮流在中国的城市文化中日益普及。在这种文化形势下,中国的雕塑艺术前所未有地被寄托了公共文化的表征功能。然而,正是从公共文化建构的视角出发,我们不能不产生这样一个疑问:为什么是雕塑?梁思成先生在中国雕塑史研究中曾经指出一个特别值得 Since the end of the 20th century, corresponding to the logic of the development of modern democratic culture, many cities (spaces) have sought to confirm their modern character with public cultural constructions. This intense pursuit of public culture has brought us into increasingly frequent encounters with sculpture in urban spaces. At the same time, the conception of “urban sculpture and public art” has become more and more common in urban culture in China with the trend of urban public art construction. Under this kind of cultural situation, the art of sculpture in China has been entrusted with the unprecedented function of public culture. However, precisely from the perspective of the construction of public culture, we can not but produce such a question: why is sculpture? Mr. Liang Shicheng pointed out in his study of the history of Chinese sculpture a particular worthwhile