Bitayev V. Aesthetic education and person's humanization.

The thesis is devoted to the analysis of the role of aesthetic education in the process of person's humanization that stipulated apportionment and consideration of principle stages of its theoretical comprehension and permited to reconstruct principle conceptual works on this ground beginning from the antianity epoch till the XX-th century. The investigation has been quided by the history of formation of humanistic worldrelation in the epoch of Italian Renaissance. The great attention is paid to the examination of Italian humanism's influence on aesthetic-art criticism's searches in Germany, England and Ukraine. Wide attraction of historic-aesthetic tradition to the analysis of aesthetic education's problems allows to recreate humanistic movement as movement to perfection. Specifying the aesthetic education's role in the process of person's humanization caused turning to the problem of tradition which is examined with due regard for the specific character of transformational process: tradition ® succession ® innovation ® feeble imitation. Problems of mass and aesthetic conscience, its structure and correlation with anthropological approach are included to the context of the investigation. Special attention is paid to th working out of system of "explanatory notions" which allow to deepen pithness of forms and arrangement of aesthetic education. In the thesis the problem of aesthetic education has been analysed with wide using of art's experience, taking into consideration its specific difference allows supported by the principle of theoretic-practical parity, to transform the problem of aesthetic conscience, interscientific integration to the aspect of art's practice and mark out power of educational potential of art.