Olenina O. Role specificity of art in modern cultural-communicative space

The dissertation represents the complex research of cultural problematic of transformation changes of art during communication revolutions, with accent on revealing of its specificity in the system of modern market attitudes and communicative technologies. In the dissertation theoretical generalization of research concerning the increase of value — communicative and utilitarianly — pragmatist roles of art in the modern globalized world, is made, the presence of a specific variety of conceptual approaches to its interpretation is proved and new vectors of formation of representations of arts of an epoch of eclecticism and individualism are revealed. The field of knowledge is art, theory and history of culture.