Twenty-year Strategy for the Construction and Development of Artology (1998-2024)—Analysis Based on Cite Space Visualization Knowledge Mapping

The discipline of art studies has been developed in China for more than twenty years and has been changing and improving since its construction. After a spiral development, in 2022, the first-level discipline Artistic Theory is renamed as Artistic, and this positioning will open a new chapter for the development process of Artistic discipline. In order to clarify the key points of different periods of time in the discipline of art studies in the past twenty years, we try to utilize the Cite Space knowledge graph analysis software to systematically analyze the traceability, historical development and current status of the discipline of art studies in China, so as to provide a basis for the continued development of the discipline of art studies and the exchange and collision among scholars in the future.