Reconsidering The Image Age Aesthetic Authenticity

Baudrillard dabbles in many fields the whole life, whose aesthetics thoughts profound and sophisticated. But in his wide range of view, culture of consumption and technology media are his focus, and super-real cultural theory is the core of his thoughts. The thesis has undergone deep discussion about his super-real cultural theory.Super-real theory roots in the soil of post-modernist culture theory, taking speech platform and mass media theory as its pivot, has formed its own unique speech method and theoretical system. Through this system, Baudrillard shows us a super-real post-modernist world, "simulation",''simulacra", "implosion" are key words and fashion words. Standing before advancing front of times and theory, he sees through contemporary booming appearance of economical society and captures the pulse of social existence and development form the view of post-modernism, pointing that super-real is the most essential feature of post-modern society. This thesis researches and analyzes Baudrillard's super-real aesthetics theory from the aspect of symbol, simulation, simulacra, implosion and model, and introspect actual problems of aesthetics in image times, in order to discuss how to display aesthetical value of images themselves in the uncovered and undistorted world.