Skliarenko O. The Ukrainian traditional doll the end of XX - beginning of XXI century: ethnocultural tradition, functions.

The dissertation consists of three sections. In the first section, investigational the basic stages of forming of ethno - cultural traditions of creation of the Ukrainian folk doll, historiography is given, certainly a spring base and grounded research methodology. The basic stages of research of cultural and art tradition constructing of doll as Ukrainian cultural fenomen. It is discovered that space of research of scientific publications is characterized insufficiency by the amount of labours of cultural and study of art direction, in which the problems of etno-cultural traditions of folk doll art would light up system and comprehensively, system classification of the Ukrainian folk doll is poorly given. The scientific going is analysed near definiciy of concepts "the traditional Ukrainian doll", "authentic doll", which are used in the environment of masters, pedagogical activity, in mass medias and require a specification in the etno-cultural researches. On the basis of analysis of a spring base the basic types of traditional dolls of the end ХХ - to beginning of ХХІ age, there are: Ukrainian folk doll; reconstructed folk doll; an author doll is with the elements of traditional iconography signs. On the basis of a some functional character of the Ukrainian folk doll its separate functions were selected: informative, motivational stimulant, sensory, aksiologic.