Specificity of a role and place of art consciousness in the Russian culture
In this paper, an analysis is made of scientific literature related to specificity of a role and place of art consciousness in the Russian culture. The author shows multidimensionality of the concept of “art consciousness” considered by cultural science, philosophy, esthetics, art studies and by psychological and pedagogical sciences. In line with the general concept “culture”, the author allocates the phenomenon of “art” and its impacts on the person. Two main approaches are defined to study art consciousness of the personality. The following functions of images of culture in modern consciousness are designated: gnoseological, humanistic, communicative, training, bringing up, informative, standard and reflexive. The author distinguishes culture images as the inconsistent and dramatic periods ambiguously reflected in modern consciousness. The paper shows the structural and dynamic features of culture images and modern consciousness, as well as their influence on modern processes of art creativity.