Anthropocentrism as a Visual Dominance of the Historical Center of Yaroslavl
The article is one of the variants of the integrative approach to one of the most important Russian cultural phenomena - the historic provincial town as a keeper of memory and anthropological determinant of national mentality. In a cultural perspective, the author refers to the texts of the culture of urban space, revealing their structural and functional significance. We draw your attention to the visual anthropocentric dominants characterizing the historical center of the city of Yaroslavl as the center of administrative, political, commercial and cultural life; as the organization of space, influencing the formation of the identity of citizens; as the representants of national and regional culture. Being based on the semantic characteristics of the visual range, the article stands 2 big groups of objects: sacred and not sacred. The coordinate system in which we view as a visual manifestation of anthropocentrism of the dominant historical center of Yaroslavl is composed of two main elements. The first one is the starting point taken as the immovable object (sculpture, advertising, etc.), showing the anthropocentric response. The second element is the background of the historic city, which is actively contrasted with it and is its environment.