WORLD ARTISTIC CULTURE IN THE SCIENTIFIC INTERPRETATION OF V. SHEIKO, O. HAVRYUSHENKO, O. KRAVCHENKO: HISTORIOGRAPHIC ASPECT

Abstract

The article is devoted to the historiographical study of the five-volume textbook “History of Artistic Culture” of 1999–2001, authored by Vasyl Mykolayovych Sheyko, Oleksandr Anatoliyovych Gavryushenko, and Oleksandr Vasylovich Kravchenko. The authors belong to the group of scientists of the Kharkiv State Academy of Culture, whose activities were of decisive importance for the official recognition of cultural studies as an independent branch of the humanities in the scientific and educational system of independent Ukraine. Familiarization with the content of cultural publications of a large literary form, in particular by such prominent representatives of cultural thought as V. Sheiko, O. Havryushenko and O. Kravchenko, helps to understand many features and complex problems of cultural existence of modern civilized society. At the same time, the article is aimed at identifying the conceptual foundations of the science of culture, at popularizing cultural knowledge and cultural literature, a great deficit of which is observed in Ukrainian bookstores at the present time. The literary and cultural cycle chosen as the subject of the study thematically covers the development of artistic culture of various countries and peoples of the world from the Stone Age and the era of antiquity to the end of the 20th century. In the material of all five textbooks, a detailed analysis of historical facts is accompanied by a theoretical understanding of their meaning, thanks to which the causes and essence of cultural processes, ideological and aesthetic characteristics and value of works of art, etc. are revealed. In the article, when studying the content of each book, the object and subject of research attention, the issues, key structural and thematic provisions, as well as the main cognitive techniques of the scientific and cultural tools, thanks to which the authors in their books not only revealed the features of various types of art, but also showed the sphere of artistic culture as an integral part of a large holistic cultural system, are revealed.