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The article raises the problem of aesthetic role of construction in the architectural object. The building’s structure can fulfill its task not only as a technical element – bearing particular load – but it can also be an expressive value of work and, ipso facto, may affect the aesthetics of the building. Construction can be analyzed analogously to parsing the work of abstract art. In the first part...
The association of modernism with formalism was established early on. The claim that modernism manifested an attitude of aestheticist resignation was reinforced by a related charge, which focused on its place in the cultural economy. The question of modernism's success as a counter‐cultural force lies at the heart of numerous postwar discussions of its history and its future. Whether modernism is...
In article the analysis is carried out and are defined the main tendencies of development of art education from 1949 to 1980. The historical aspects, socio-economic, political factors and trends in the development of school art education in Ukraine of the studied period are analyzed. The features of art education in secondary school are revealed: its nature and content, aims and objectives, principles...
The article discusses early essayistic writing of Susan Sontag, mainly the well-known and influential essays Against interpretation, On style, Notes on ‘Camp’, and One culture and new sensibility. The author looks at the evolution of Sontag’s aesthetic assumptions, especially at the way her initial praise of Modernism developed into categories of Post-modernism. Interestingly, all the time Sontag’s...
This article aims to elucidate the evolution of Socialist Realism, the central art-theoretical term of the period 1945-1980, as it appears in the weekly periodical 'Literatura un Maksla' ('Literature and Art', 1945-1990). The doctrine of Socialist Realism was proclaimed as the only permitted one during the All-Soviet Union Writers' Congress in 1934 and inculcated in the newly occupied territories,...
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