"前衛"概念用于藝術,具有政治前衛與審美前衛的雙重意涵,某種程度上,這恰好對應于前衛藝術介入社會的兩種路徑:一是揚棄藝術自律,依照某種政治理念與黨派立場直接介入社會;二是堅守藝術自律,通過保持與社會的疏離間接介入社會。前衛藝術介入社會的觀念與路徑內蘊著難以調和的矛盾性,這一內在悖論既構成了前衛藝術真正介入社會的難度,也決定了其介入社會效果的限度。

The concept of "the avant-garde" has both political and aesthetic connotation when applied to arts, which, to some degree, corresponds to its two approaches of intervening in society. It either abandons artistic autonomy and directly intervenes in society based on certain political ideas and party positions, or, it adheres to artistic autonomy and intervenes indirectly in society by maintaining a distance from society. There are thus irreconcilable contradictions between ideas and approaches of the avant-garde when it intervenes in society. This internal paradox makes it difficult for avant-garde art to truly intervene in society, and it also determines the efficacy of its intervention.