Elkan O. Semiosphere as a symbolic core of the culture (on the basis of the texts of the German-speaking world's art of the 20-th century)

The main peculiarities of semiosphere as a symbolic core of the culture and as sense-generating factor in forming the figurative world of German culture of the 20-th century are analyzed in the thesis. The concepts, connected with the symbol problems, "symbolic forms", semiosis and culture semiosphere, by E. Cassirer, V. Hoffmann, Yu. Lotman are considered. It has been defined that the semiosphere singularity of the 20-th century art was largely formed under the influence of theoretical and artistic activity of V. Kandinsky. The analysis of the theoretical concepts and arts of the expressionism representatives confirms the thesis: semiosphere as a symbolic core of the culture is the sense-generating factor and it defines the artistic originality of the art of the 20-th century German-speaking world.