Danylova V. «Special artistic event»: types, functions, art direction (the late 20th - the early 21st century)

The object of research study is a “special artistic event”. The scientific novelty of the obtained results consists in completing a comprehensive research of the “special artistic event” as a phenomenon of culture of the late 20th - the early 21st century on the basis of cultural and art-review approaches. The author has introduced the concept of “special artistic event” into the research vocabulary of contemporary cultural studies and art criticism and the conceptualization of this term has been implemented; it is established that “special artistic event” is the result of the convergence and a certain “intersection” of two types of cultures - traditional and artistic and two realities - empirical and artistic and symbolic; the author has developed a specific classification of “special artistic events”. A field of study is theory and history of culture, art criticism.