Morphological Model of Art Festival as Cultural Form
Traditional ideas about cultural form are presented in this article. A presented morphological model is analysed, which intergrated elements are: a) purpose; b) ontological basis as cultural processes legitimation either in natural or in social sphere; с) essence as laws and consistent patterns combination, to which cultural processes obey; d) inner structure; e) external general structure including social, organizational and functional structures; f) artifact as cultural form interpretative realization in certain material product, behavior act or value judgement. General and specific art festival features as cultural form in the ratio of a holiday as another art form are also considered. Art festival morphological model is also mentioned: a) purpose - idea creation in different art forms, its realization and demonstration with help of competiveness and agon; b) ontological bases - certain legitimate way through cultural politics, federal and regional cultural programs; c) inner structure which is presented with “semiotic analogy” method usage (as connection of syntactics, semantics and pragmatics); d) external general structure - socio-organizational and functional - where the main roles belong to aesthetic, creative and agonal functions; e) artifact - creative groups, studios and so on. Differences of art festival from other cultural forms (holiday in this case) consist of purposes and results difference, functioning way, which means functions of combination in typical for a cultural form, consistent patterns combination which mean essence, cultural forms’ inner structures and legitimation ways which determine cultural forms’ existence. These differences in their combination determine specifity of art festival as a cultural form. As it can be seen from the above, an art festival is presented through its morphological model as a polystructural cultural form.