Philosophy of art by Vyacheslav Ivanov: dialectics of falling and apotheosis
The text is dedicated to the analytical research of an esthetic concept by Viacheslav Ivanov who was the prominent Russian philosopher, scholar and symbolist poet. As it stressed by the author of the article this concept was explicated by Ivanov most fully and concisely in his opus «Of the Limits of Art» where is given quite clear and pithy philosophical scheme of an artistic act. The author demonstrates that the Ivanov’s conclusions about the essence of art, artwork and the destiny of an artist are very significant currently because for the present time loss of understanding of those subjects is typical.