集體記憶、文化認同與歷史建構： 鹽月桃甫作品〈莎勇〉與〈母〉

Abstract

Particular historical events have always associated with a particular group of people in a society, who constitute the collective memory of the event and shape its cultural identity. Thus, what and how a society remembers is actually part of the process of the construction of cultural identity within that society. Sayon and Mother were painted by the Japanese painter Shiotsuki Toho during the Japanese colonial period in Taiwan. There are multiple interpretations of these two works, which reference colonial era Taiwan. Toho's original ideas, however, were not about the stories but about expressions of aesthetic truth or feeling for his art. The multiple interpretations that the two works have generated ref lect the forging and evolution of Taiwan's cultural identities during different periods. This study examines Shiotsuki Toho's original ideas regarding the works, as well as inferences about his art made during Taiwan's post-war era.