Self-Organizing Aesthetic Ideals

The work in question deals with examining the dual nature of creative mental activities of global society members and their artistic, counter-artistic, pseudo-artistic, and anti-artistic products within the concept of Synergetic Philosophy of Arts. The investigation is based on a progressive research methodology, including the law of self-organizing ethical and aesthetic ideals as well as the method of dual oppositions, developed by the author in the course of studying local artistic cultures dynamically changed. The approach proposed by the author to the exploration of modelling interpenetrating artistic spaces by creative artists as well as to the individual reflection on them by global society members, who share the artists ethical and aesthetic counter-ideals, allows to assist at finding constructive ways of civilization progress. In order to assist the readers to choose the right way of rethinking of modern artistic innovations, the author demonstrated in what way through the devaluation of ethical and aesthetic ideals art is moved outside of its primal ethical and aesthetic context and remolded to accomodate utilitarian ideals of consumer culture.

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Art Historian, Philosophy Doctor, Professor at Saint Petersburg Humanitarian Centre of Enlightenment and Development (since 2000). Member of The Association of Art Historians and Art Critics, the leading representative of Saint-Petersburg Scientific School of Social Synergetics, earned a doctorate at Saint-Petersburg State University.