List of publications on a keyword: «mass culture»

The article analyses the final lines of V. Soloviev’s work “The General Sense of Art,” correlating them with the art tendencies of the modern civilization. The author addresses Soloviev’s idea about the transforming role of art in relation to the reality, the real life. It is stated that, in the modern era, within the commercial mass culture domination, the entertaining function of art comes to the forefront. At the same time, an opposing tendency can be observed: a movement towards the all-encompassing unity, understanding of the universal, the priority of common values (the ideas of ecological ethics, common religion, non-violence). The author indicates that the dialectic negation of the negation law is manifested in the history of art, in the realization of its varied functions.

The primary purpose of this article is to analyze the state of contemporary art in the context of mass culture: the phenomena of mass and elite art are characterized, the relationships between and mutual influences of various factors of mass art are determined, and the significance of the commercial aspect in the development of contemporary art is revealed.

The article deals with the problems associated with the representation of historical knowledge in the digital era, the role of new media in documenting the events and the peculiarities of perception of historical knowledge by a mass audience.

Socio-political changes in Russia at a boundary of the XX-XXI centuries generated a "folk-histora" phenomenon as to become a component of the mass commercial culture applying the central element of historical knowledge and to force out the scientific historical theory

The article talks about the unique opportunities for higher educational institution in opposition to the negative effects of the speech environment and the admission of students of economic specialities to the values of high culture, including literature and language