| In the long history of culture, the body has been art the oldest of the most important one of the themes, as the carrier of the contents of the body expressi on out look on life, world out look and cultural values of t he media, including become an independent subject and social identity establishment, religious and political beliefs, concepts and so on. In the history of art, the body is sometimes used to demonstrate the strength and wisdom, on behalf of the aesthetic value of different times, it as signifier symbols will be entity concepts, such as life, sex, death concept expression.In this paper, we introduce mirror theory to fristly explore the relationship between self formation and its mirror image (the other), then explore the nature of desire and body material. With the arrival of the Consumerism Era, information fragmentation, expansion of humandesire and body material are becoming more and more intensified, in order to find out the real reason for the fact that under the cover of which subject in continuous pursuit eventually desire and in the process of anxiety neet fantasy. Finally, choosing a few typical cases in Chinese contemporary art with Lacan’s mirror theory reinterpret the physical meaning.Trying to study in Chinese contemporary art the reinterpretion and recharacteri zation of body and the relationship between body image, the others gaze, subject of self-const ruction and desire. Deepening the understanding of the existence of their own, in this understanding to achieve their own existence. exploring in the exhumation of the social image and as a "power" in the eyes of the gaze, is the body as a prior to the structural order of language? Is it as a marked historical sign and cultural symbol being constructed? Is it as results of the performance of society and culture? Is it as the strategy of camouflage of the power, or as a carrier of the subject of desire? How to keep its own independence and value orientation in contemporary art?... |