Abstract: 

Butoh is a kind of art, but exactly what kind of art is not so easy to see. While traditionally considered a type of dance, there are a number of butoh works that are not readily identifiable as dance works, if in fact they count as dance at all. Through the use of Noël Carroll’s narrative theory of art, I will show how butoh comes to be thought of as art even if it fails to match up exactly with any one pre-existing art form. I will show how the context in which butoh came into being is sufficient for granting butoh art status due to its relation to existing art forms. I compare butoh to its two most similar analogues, dance and performance art, and examine how it resembles and differs from each of them. I also show how the reason categorising butoh as only one kind of art form is problematic due to its being part of a non- Western aesthetic tradition that does not break the world up into such easily separable pieces. 

摘要。

布袋戏是一种艺术，但究竟是哪种艺术却不那么容易看出来。虽然传统上被认为是一种舞蹈，但有许多布袋戏作品并不容易被识别为舞蹈作品，如果它们事实上算作舞蹈的话。通过使用诺埃尔-卡罗尔的艺术叙事理论，我将展示布袋戏是如何被认为是艺术的，即使它未能与任何一种预先存在的艺术形式完全吻合。我将表明，由于布袋戏与现有艺术形式的关系，布袋戏产生的背景足以赋予它艺术地位。我把布袋戏与它的两个最相似的类似物--舞蹈和行为艺术进行比较，并研究它与它们各自的相似性和不同之处。我还表明，把布袋戏归为一种艺术形式的理由是有问题的，因为它属于非西方美学传统的一部分，不会把世界分成如此容易分离的部分。