Abstract: The article is devoted to Sergey Vladimirovich Trubnikov’s creative work. Sergey Trubnikov was a graphic painter, designer, member of the Union of Designers of Russia and a Decembrist’s descendant. He lives and works in Moscow now. He started to exhibit his works quite early and has been working on so called national painting since 1991. He is a gifted master and his name is well known both by art experts and audience. Sergey Trubnikov devoted his big series of ‘Moscow national paintings’ to the 200th anniversary since the Great Patriotic War of 1812. His paintings sweep all before one, make a signiÞ cant contribution to Russian art and culture and is a visible proof of the fact that a profound Russian national lubok tradition still continues to develop. The article is based on Moscow exhibitions, interview with Sergey Trubnikov and personal impressions of the author of the article.

Keywords: cultural studies, lubok (Russian popular print), national pictures, caricature, prints, creative work, perception of the world, plot, composition, Great Patriotic War in 1812.

Abstract: The article is devoted to creative work by Sergei Slonimsky who managed the dialogue of cultures between Renaissance, Baroque, Romanticism, Ancient Russia and Russia’s cultural realities of early ХХI century. The author of the article studies the most important innovative compositions created in 2000 – 2010 (Requiem, the twenty Þ rst symphony from Goethe’s Faust, Witch Hazel Ballet) in which the composer raised the issues about national redemption, relations between an artist and government, opposition between mass and elite cultures, national identity and memory of culture.

Keywords: cultural studies, culture centralism, dialogue of cultures, neo-Renaissance, neo-Baroque, neo- Romanticism, neo-folklorism, music, requiem, symphony.

Abstract: The article is devoted to the process of special emancipation of Ukrainian women from the point of view of gender. The study has allowed to deÞ ne the main methods of spacial emancipation achieved by Ukrainian women which include: social, professional and geographical mobility and new forms of physical practices. The author describes the main prerequisites allowing women to achieve spacial freedom in public sphere: economic, ethical, socio-cultural and didactical.

Keywords: cultural studies, gender identity, gender ideology, patriarchal character, woman’s status, public space, family rules, social mobility, Ukraine, emancipation.

Abstract: The author bases his article on the Internet discussion about Marina Tsvetaeva. Some people involved in the discussion accused her of her bad treatment and attitude towards her daughters while others tried to defend her by saying that she was a great poet. The author of the article summarizes the main ‘pro and contra’ arguments and forms his own hypothesis based on which Tsvetaeva was a diversiÞ ed personality: on one part, she was an esoteric poet and on the other part she was a usual yet marginal person. Such hypothesis allows to explain Tsvetaeva’s strange behavior as well as her maniac passion for diaries. At the end of the article the author raises the question about interpretation of creative work from the point of view of an author’s life reconstructions and personality.

Keywords: cultural studies, personality, poetry, choice, piece of work, tragedy, disintegration, duality, consciousness.

Abstract: The article is devoted to the role of cultural concept and cultural approaches in historiography. The author of the article raises questions about interdisciplinarity of modern socio-humanitarian knowledge as well as borders and interactions of history, history of culture and cultural studies.

Keywords: cultural studies, history, culture, borders, dialogue, interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity, historio graphy, anthropology, hermeneutics.

Abstract: At the beginning of XX century the idea of mobility and uncertainty of formerly stable and Þ xed artistic form becomes very popular. During the second half of XX century Umberto Eco’s conception of esthetics acquires a bright representation in a music mobile and aleatorics development. Syntax inconsistency and semantic disintegration in Joyce’s works inspired Cage and Beriot to create uncertainty in composition and performance of music. Form of labyrinth was also shown in Boulez’ and other authors’ works. Before changing forms were quite rare in music and usually caused y these or those circumstances and traditions of music performance. Music mobiles and aleatorics were a typical tendency in art of XX century though – the tendency of individualization of music and structure when each performance had a unique structure and reß ected the author’s approach. Mobile form due to accident inß uence has led to far-reaching consequences and open form of music-in-movement resulted in a search of structural decisions and development of innovative strategies of form generation. This is the topic the given article is devoted to.

Keywords: art history, open, form, mobile, aleatory music, improvisation, composition.

Abstract: The article raises the question about the need in viewing symbolism as an artistic beginning not only from the point of view of art history but also cultural studies. Before symbolism appeared, esthetics was primarily oriented at sensitive elements typical modern. But symbolism, continuing the romanticism tradition, rehabilitated the supersensitive element which already started to fade away in the history of culture at the turn of Middle Ages and Renaissance. Such a transfer to a new epoch at the moment when symbolism was originated created new relations between the sensitive and supersensitive. Symbolism is a new phase of rehabilitation of the super-sensitive after Romanticism. This feature of symbolism takes its meaning beyond the borders of art history approach in the sphere of cultural studies. As the matter of fact, rehabilitation of the supersensitive, as P. Sorokin’s fundamental conception of socio-dynammics declared, meant the initial point of alternative culture, or culture of ideatsional type.

Keywords: cultural studies, alternative culture, culture of sensitive type, culture of ideatsional type, supersensible, symbolic forms of expression, theurgist esthetics, new religious consciousness, Epicureanism and hedonism, eternal return.

Abstract: The article contains the author’s thoughts about A. P. Lyusiy’s work ‘Poetics of Anticipation: Russian in the Light of Cultural Studies: Theoretical Comedy’ (published in Moscow in 2011). The author of the article thinks highly of Lyusiy’s work and tries to understand its role for modern culture and for actualization of the book as the source of images but not only knowledge. Lyusiy’s study is viewed from the point of view of electronic editions, installation and designer’s books which have started to appear lately.

Keywords: cultural studies, culture, literature, medialogy, book publishing, poetics, critics, cultural nests, theoretical comedy, post-modern carnival.

Abstract: The article is devoted to the genesis and formation of one of the magistral genres in modern music – instrumental theatre reß ecting the artists’ aspiration for art synthesis during the second half of XX century. The author of the article underlines the most important sources of instrumental theatre including: early man rituals, national theatre, jazz, musical actionism (happening, performance), innovations in the sphere of theatre arts in the middle of XX century. Special attention is paid at the most signiÞ cant opuses that provoked the formation of the instrumental theatre such as Haydn’s ‘Farewell’ Symphony, Charles Ives’ symphonies, Henry Cowell’s and Eric Satie’s piano experiments.

Keywords: art history, music, history, art, avant-garde, post-modernism, synthesis, theatre, ritual, genre.

Abstract: The article formalizes poet and philosopher Konstantin Kedrov’s theoretical concepts related to the meta metaphor conception. The author of the article summarizes the cognitive metaphor theory and introduces the concept of metaphor hierarchy similar to Tarsky’s metaphor hierarchy. The author also provides cognitive deÞ nitions of the terms ‘fora’ (O-metaphor), meta metaphor and N-metaphor and gives examples of different N-metaphors in Egor Radov’s creative works.

Keywords: cultural studies, metaphor hierarchy, Tarski’s language hierarchy, metaphor, meta language, metaphor theory, semiotics, Konstantin Kedrov’s school.