Krutous Victor Petrovich,
Doctor of Philosophy, Professor
Moscow State University
University of. M.V. Lomonosov
e-mail: victorkrutous@gmail.com

On the problem of heuristic significance of the culturological reflection for Art Sciences
(a brief overview of the fundamental work of N.A. Khrenov, and associated reflections on the topics touched in it)

Abstract. The article is dedicated to the review of a new fruitful approach to the analysis of art, past and present, that has been developed by an eminent Russian scientist, Dr. Nikolay Andreevich Hrenov, Ph.D. in Philosophy. The author´s integral conceptual foundation was substantiated and outlined in his fundamental work “Art in historical dynamics of culture” (Moscow, 2015) including 25 of his comprehensive scientific publications of the last one and a half decades. The basis for the book was provided by the “cyclically-recurrent” model of the evolution of history that opens a vast expanse for confluence of the old and the new, the avant-garde and the archaic. This conception had been elaborated by its author at the interface of the philosophical-culturological knowledge on one hand and the history of art-aesthetics knowledge on the other hand.

The present article focuses on methodological aspects of the matter at hand. The narrative has been carried out with a conscious digression from the review genre canons, in a form of dialogue with the author and notes “on the margins” of his book.

Keywords. Culturological reflection, cyclicism, transitional era, culture of sensory and suprasensory, enlightening rationalism, romanticism, symbolism, avant-garde in art, postmodernism, non-classical aesthetics.

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