Vitality of the Art

Throughout the centuries, the concept of the vitality of art has been commensurate with the concept of “elevated life”, with the feeling of a special upsurge at the moment of artistic experience, and was seen as a condition for gaining new energy. Today, the high amplitude of the implementation of artistic drama, the acutely presented tragic, undermines the possibili- ties of artistic catharsis. When the art form is shattered by deliberate alogisms, conscious modeling of chaos, attention is sharpened to the in-depth development of the phenomenon of art vitality. The scientific review analyzes the main ideas of the discussion that took place in October 2020 at the State Institute for Art Studies. Being a specialist in aesthetics, Oleg A. Krivtsun has been developing aspects of the phenome- non of art vitality for several years. At a certain stage, other modern researchers, who share an interest in this phenomenon, joined the work on this topic. The discussion on the vitality of art was held at the State Institute for Art Studies and brought together scientists of various specialties from humanitarian universities and research institutions of Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Nizhny Novgorod. The unifying basis of the ‘round table’ was the desire of art historians, musicologists, culturologists, architects, and aestheticians to create a generalizing study devoted to the nature of the vitality of art. The reports of the ‘round table’, given in abridg- ment, are presented in this section as the first collective publication that promotes the writing of a collective monograph

Aesthetics · Art · Catharsis · Drama · Epistemology · Feeling · Literature · Phenomenon · Sociology · Visual arts · Vitality · Philosophy · Psychology · Scientific Research and Philosophical Inquiry · Social Psychology