Abstract: Chinese scholars have reached a basic consensus on the periodization of Martin Heidegger that his thought can be divided into early and late stages by the ideological turn in the 1930s. Noticeably, however, at the Le Thor seminar more than three decades later Heidegger used three keywords — meaning, truth, and place — to mark the three stages in the development of his thought. In accordance with Heidegger’s own rule, his thought had two turns and were thus divided into the early, middle, and late periods, the subjects of which are respectively “the meaning of being”, “the truth of being”, and “the place of being”. At the same time, Heidegger’s artistic thought is not confined to the theoretical horizon of “truth”, but has experienced a development from the middle to the late period and ultimately focused on the relationship between art and “place”. Different from the observation that “art is the setting-itself-to-work of truth” in the middle period, Heidegger argues that “art is the place created in the work” in the late period. After clarifying the turn of Heidegger’s artistic thought, it is necessary to go beyond Heidegger to think over: Does Heidegger’s artistic thought reveal the nature of art or conceal its independence?

Key words: Martin Heidegger, truth, place, art