2015年适逢“85美术新潮”30周年。在当下对这段历史的各种回顾中,20世纪80年代及其政治、历史、氛围再度浮现;当年所涉及的概念、理论、词语,也逐渐渗入到如今对中国现代化的理解中。发生在80年代中期的文化运动,被视为“自‘五四新文化运动’以来的又一次文化变革运动”~([1])。它以现代的语汇、颠覆的姿态挑战体制与权威,在思想开放与知识多元的背景下尝试新的现代转型。当下的现代性便始自80年代的探索与建构,其创新与局限都折射出那十年的岁月痕迹。1现代的开端20世纪80年代是中国“新时期”的开端,经由 2015 coincides with the 30th anniversary of “85 Art Trendy”. In various present-day reviews of this period of history, the 1980s and its politics, history and atmosphere reappear again. The concepts, theories and terms involved in that year have also gradually infiltrated into today’s understanding of China’s modernization. The cultural movement that took place in the mid-1980s was regarded as “another cultural transformation movement since the May Fourth New Culture Movement.” It challenges the system and authority in a modern rhetorical and subversive manner, and attempts a new, modern transformation under the background of open-mindedness and diverse knowledge. The present modernity begins with exploration and construction in the 1980s. Its innovation and limitations all reflect the traces of the past ten years. 1 The Beginning of Modern China The 1980s was the beginning of China’s “new era” and its passage