Beskorsa V. Transformation baroque in art culture of Ukrain XVII - XVIII ct.

Object of research - evolution of baroque in Ukrainian art culture XVII - XVIII ct.; target of research - historical-art and philosophical-historical analysis of transformation process of baroque through representative aspect of art; methods - comparative-historical, inductive-deductive, conceptual working of Tartu-Moscow semiotics schools of thought, cultural-historical; novelty - character of influence of national features for art baroque peculiarity is determined (it made pos-sible to study the forms of adaptation western baroque features on national basis); the peculiarities of creation form of the features of Ukrainian baroque against national development background are de-duced (it made possible to determine the influence of social-historic situation and humane-realistic tendencies for the evolution of baroque forms; results - the researching of Ukrainian baroque achievements are continued by comparative-historical analysis of artistic features of the art in Ukraine, Poland, Czech, Russia, Byelorussia, Lithuania and Moldova ХVІІ - ХVІІІ ct. (it made possible to determine the reasons of decadence of religious tendencies that influenced for art culture) the process of reception of art folk tradition by baroque; thesis of influence Cossacks culture environment for the formation of baroque is defined more exactly; branch theory and history of culture, the study of art.