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Abstract: Innovative civic and political outlook which understands culture as a justified and evident political target are of practical importance for the new nationstates, especially Russia after 1991. On the one hand nationbuilding policies encourage the Fortress syndrome, on the other diversified cultural landscapes have become the intrinsic characteristics of Russian society, while the routine cultural interaction expands in everyday practices and in particular locations re-establishing constructive principle of “thinking globally and acting locally”.

Keywords: Cultural policies, diversity, glocal, fortress, interaction, transculturalism.

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Abstract: This article focuses on a transitional period in the history of Russian art, namely on the turn of the 20th century. An intensive interaction between different cultures – Russian, Western and Eastern - was taking place during this very period. The phenomenon of the cultural synthesis is a subject of our particular analysis. Special attention is given to assimilation of Eastern cultural values as part of the synthesis which characterizes not just the Russian but the Western culture as well. At the same time in some cases such assimilation in Russian culture shows its seamy side - the anti-Western sentiment. An increasing interest in Eastern values at the turn of the 20th century in Russia we demonstrate through the analysis of the works of L. Tolstoy, V. Solovyov, A. Bely, A. Blok, N. Roerich, V. Khlebnikov, A. Dobroliubov, K. Balmont, B. Livshits, and others. A special page of this history covers the reflection of the “Eurasians” (historians, philosophers, publicists) – G.Vernadsky, L.Karsavin, N. Karsavin, among others. Their writings had formulated the idea which had been reverberating in art in a subconscious form. Later, closer to modern times, its development will be continued by L.Gumilev.

Keywords: cultural synthesis end cultural identity, euro-centrism, axis time, modernity – romanticism – neoromanticism – symbolism – eurasianism, Faustian man, scythianism, pan-unity, pan-mongolism

Abstract: The author of the article suggests to view architecture and music as analogies of the time-space continuum in physics and mathematics. A ‘poetic’ word is the core beginning connecting architecture and music and bringing meaning into culture. The ‘architecture, music, literature (language)’ triangle is the foundation of all cultures.

Keywords: cultural studies, culture, architecture, music, space, time, number, word, logic, analogy.

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Abstract: The author of the article views a new media reality as a challenge for the traditional art of writing. Artwork of a modern author A. Eisenberg from Odessa is believed to be one of the responses of literature to the challenge. The author of the article also raises a question about the border between educational norm and antieducational pathology in using media and creation of a new autonomous subject.

Keywords: cultural studies, information industries, holographic improvisation, media education, independent subject, challenge, fractal semiotics, global spectacle, adjustment of expectations, cultivation of needs.

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Abstract: The article is devoted to the Bryansk regional social charity Fund of Mogilevtsev Brothers. The purpose of the Fund is to revive charity traditions. The article describes the region’s experience in revival of the Russian spiritually and charity traditions and characterizes the Fund’s main activities and cultural actions.

Keywords: cultural studies, charity, patronship, revival, traditions, charity fund, the Mogilevtsevs, the Tenis hevs, Gubonin, Maltsov.

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Abstract: The article describes some aspects of Sergei Eisenstein’s film theory viewed from the point of view of the film-modernism conception. Most of the attention is focused on a very important problem in Eisenstein’s esthetics: the problem of conflict relations between image and concept in the audience reception of a film. Ways of activating of the audience conception thinking which is structured by the scientists as a method of creation of an image accompanied by its alienation, is compared with the irrational and rational forms of film modernistic opposition to the totally narrative film realism.

Keywords: cultural studies, image, concept and myth, film modernism, film realism, alienation, audience reception, institutionalization, irrationalism and rationalism, philosophy of life, Marxism.

Abstract: The article is devoted to the interaction between two opinions on naïve and primitive in culture and art. This interaction is very well shown in A. N. Ryleva’s and O.D. Baldin’s work ‘The Two Opinions on the Naive Art’. The ‘double’ opinion which is shown in the book is described as a picture of spontaneous metamorphoses and understanding of their nature. The author of the article also touches upon some argumentative issues.

Keywords: cultural studies, the naive art, primitive, avant-garde, symbolism, interpretation, culture, civilization, sociality, spontaneity.

Abstract: The article provides definition and analysis of cultural types of scenic artistic impression based on the example of key representatives of West-European conducting (Hans von Bulow, Felix Weingartner, Wilhelm Furtwangler, Arturo Toscanini, Herbert von Karajan, Seiji Ozawa, Daniel Barenboim, Simon Rattle). The author of the article describes types of conductors: the three basic types (dictator, action boy, intellectual and poet) and mixed types (politician, businessmen and showman and a ‘traveling’ conductor). The author of the article also analyzes particular influence of conductors of different types on the orchestra. The author also tries to answer the following question: why some conductors who have a wonderful ear and memory for music, cannot become a great conductor, while others who are less talented play an important role in the history of music? For the first time the author suggests a classification which is not based on music or art studies but philosophy and culture (using such categories as ‘success’ and ‘artistic impression’).

Keywords: cultural studies, conductor, dictator, action boy, activity, music, artistic impression, success, personality, orchestra, choir.

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Abstract: The article is devoted to the peculiarities of development of eclecticism as a particular architecture style at the end of the 19th – beginning of the 20th centuries. Special attention is paid at demonstrations of eclectic architecture in a Russian province, most of all, determination of regional differences in manifestations of this style. The author shows general trends of this style and quite exact differences between different provinces which mostly depends on situation in the architecture of such regions in the middle of the 19th century. The author also describes how these differences show themselves in the architecture of different types of buildings and constructions.

Keywords: art history, eclecticism, architecture, province, Russia, historicism, urban construction, heritage, the 19th century, regions.

Abstract: The article contains the author’s analysis of a newly published book K. E. Razlogov about the world motionpicture process. The image of the ‘history of movie’ created by the author is compared to a living organism which is developed during his new births but keep the core and foundation of his life unchanged. The author talks about the narrative structure which combines the concept of collage and the ‘iron scenery’ and gives a necessary order to the text body and information array.

Keywords: cultural studies, movie, motion-picture process, film studies, film semiotics, history, social studies, philosophy, image, narrative.

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Abstract: The article analyzes the evolution of the term ‘theatre puppet’ in Russian researches. It is fair to say that the theatre puppet is a changing and unsteady cultural phenomenon which depends on the transformation inside the theatre arts. The article shows that there are two approaches to the definition ‘theatre puppet’. The first definition defines the theatre puppet as a product of a modern puppet theatre and the second contains key characteristics of the puppet theatre as the space for fine arts.

Keywords: cultural studies, sign, imitationability, puppet, culture, image, synthetic theatre, stage culture, puppet theatre.

Abstract: This article is an attempt to understand some challenges of the music biography film. To which extent this genre can be viewed as a documentary? What are the criteria for selecting music for such a film? How the time format influences the corresponding coordinate of the film? The phenomenon concerned is viewed in a genre space of a music film.

Keywords: history of art, film art, musical biography film, genre hybrids, music scores, orchestrating, keynote ideas, banknotes, in-screen music, off-screen music.

Abstract: The article describes one of the most promising direction in psychological literary studies – literary characterology. The author of the article approbates the method of hypothetic reconstruction of literary heroes by means of a text structural analysis. The object of the research is the roman ‘Venus in Fur’ (1869) written by an Austrian writer Leopold von Sacher-Mazoch. The main heroes there are identified as accentuated personalities standing very close to pathology. It is well shown that the structural analysis allows to take a new look at the plot and conflict of the novel and better understand a very complex phenomenon of masochism. The author introduces such terms as ‘aglo charaters’ and ‘micro schisis’ and defines a number of certain patterns which were not noticed by researchers before.

Keywords: accentuated personality, Venus in Furs, Leopold von Sacher-Mazoch, cultural studies, psychological literary studies, structural analysis, psychosemiotics, characterology.

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Abstract: The article is devoted to a great theatre expert, circus and variety show historian Yu. D. Dmitriev. The article describes the main ‘milestones’ of his life path and shows Dmitriev’s contribution to the art science as well as uniqueness of his talent for research and pedagogy.

Keywords: art history, theatre history, circus history, variety show history, synthesis of arts, art critics, art practices, Russian Academy of Theatre Arts, State Institute of Art Studies, ‘Circus and Variety Show’ journal.

Abstract: The article is devoted to the interpretation of Nikolay Gogol’s poetics form the point of view of the ‘vision of the absent’ and in comparison with Chavchavadze’s creative works, modern animation (Yuriy Norshteyn) and Osip Mandelstam’s poetry (‘I toast to military asters’).

Keywords: cultural studies, poetics, N. V. Gogol, physics of existence, metaphysics of existence, ‘everyday life’, life, symphony of life, ‘exposure of the invisible’, caesura is not a mere pause.