Vernygora N. Historical Dinamics of Аntropial measurement of an aesthetic ideal in West Europe Culture

Українська версія

Thesis for the degree of Candidate of Sciences (CSc)

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0404U002770

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Specialization

  • 17.00.01 - Теорія та історія культури

25-06-2004

Specialized Academic Board

Д 26.807.02

Kiev National University of Arts and Culture

Essay

The problem of antropial measurement of an aesthetic ideal is little-studied in domestic and world science. The origin, formation and development of antropial measurement of an aesthetic ideal are shown in historical dynamics from antique times up to the beginning of the ХХ centuary. The objective tendencies and regularities of dominance in an aesthetic ideal of those or other features of human body and human spirituality are determined. The most known and widespread theoretical approaches to the understanding of antropial measurement of an aesthetic ideal are stated in comparative interpretation. The predominant factors influencing to processes of supervised recently modification of concept "ideal". Antiquity - the first historical and cultural epoch, where the antropial measurement of an aesthetic ideal, which was not canonized and, thus, had a possibility of development and theoretical substantiation. In epoch of antiquity the aesthetic, art critical and generally ideological fundamentals of theEuropean art are laid. Вy undergoing essential changes during the time of existence of ancient Greek culture, the antropial expression of an aesthetic ideal essentially variants in ancient Roman culture: the antropial criterion of beauty is interchanged with a criterion of social status. The antropial ideal of epoch of a middle Ages also undergoes essential transformation: the category „beautiful" is displaced by a category „raised", educing, thus, new representational engineering of transfer of spiritual (faith) contents of the person. If the east christianity goes on a path of canonization of human and Divine, Catholicism (western branch) experiences a gradual withdrawal from a canon since the ХІІth century (development of urban culture, knightly cult of Beautiful lady etc.). Renaissance, assimilating the achievements of antiquity and middle ages and attempting „to revive" antiquity, introduces the person on a place of the co-maker of God, as the person embodies an God's ideal on the Earth. The person - titanium, person - creator who was not circumscribed in the creativity to anything, is the ideal of spiritual nature of the person of epoch of Renaissance. However, in Renaissance, near to legitimacy of images of children, women and elderly people, the aesthetics of suffering is gradually reverted. Catastrophical events become imminent, which hereinafter will define a face of Europe: institualization of inquisition, gradual loss of independence by Italian cities, reformation. The development of an aesthetic ideal of New and Newest time went by extremely fast rates. However it is necessary to accent, that exactly in epoch of New time the principle of separation of antropial ideal on two components - spiritual (content) and bodily (appearance) - is founded and the aesthetic criteria of their appraisal are formed. However in the aesthetics of romanticism the idea of unique, perfect as original in the antropial ideal, that later will be developed and fixed in the aesthetic practice of modernism began to strengthen itself. During the ХІХ century some of the basic dominating style direction changes : classicism, empire, romanticism, sentimentalism, biedermeier (in Germany), secession, and at last, impressionism, symbolism, modern and eclecticism. Such fleeting of styles testifies about the acceleration of rate of changes of aesthetic ideals. Besides, the author of dissertation marks, that on an extent of ХІХ century the tendency of unification of the aesthetic of the man - both in the social - structural plan , and in washing out of complexity of an aesthetic ideal, which is characteristic for previous epoch (the fashion always testified to the certain social status or even an occupation) appreciably has amplified. One more tendency, in opinion of the author of the dissertation, consists in the internationalization in the limits of the West-European aesthetics of sights on beauty of the man and on principles of creation or improvement of this beauty. There is geographical "alignment" of an antropial ideal of the beauty.To the beginning ХХ an item these tendencies have got bright expression, which for the researchers finally has formulated new understanding of an aesthetic ideal as result of industry of beauty, which will amplify in conditions индустриально advanced and постиндустриального of the West-European society(community). Besides rough development of advertising industry amplified(strengthened) by opportunities of a photo, the cinema, аудио carriers of the information, has caused a basic new situation in the aesthetics of the man, when he becomes an auxiliary element, decor, in particular in advertising of the goods, and loses the self-value. The person of ХХth century has become to be understood not simply as microspace, originality, uniqueness (it was already in ХІХth century too), but as embodiment of spirit of the universe, and therefore - boundless in the spiritual perfecting.

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